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==Mujahideen commander== |
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In the 1980s, Jalaluddin Haqqani was cultivated as a "unilateral" asset of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] and received tens of thousands of dollars in cash for his work in [[Soviet war in Afghanistan|fighting the Soviet-led Afghan forces in Afghanistan]], according to an account in ''The Bin Ladens'', a 2008 book by [[Steve Coll]]. He reputedly attracted generous support from prosperous Arab countries compared to other resistance leaders.<ref name="NYSun">[http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/370919p-315525c.html Ex-CIA allies leading Afghan fight vs. G.I.s]{{dead link|date=February 2017}}, ''[[New York Daily News]]'', 2 December 2005</ref> At that time, Haqqani helped and protected [[Osama bin Laden]], who was building his own militia to fight Soviet-backed Afghanistan.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080912140306/http://www.iht.com |
In the 1980s, Jalaluddin Haqqani was cultivated as a "unilateral" asset of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] and received tens of thousands of dollars in cash for his work in [[Soviet war in Afghanistan|fighting the Soviet-led Afghan forces in Afghanistan]], according to an account in ''The Bin Ladens'', a 2008 book by [[Steve Coll]]. He reputedly attracted generous support from prosperous Arab countries compared to other resistance leaders.<ref name="NYSun">[http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/370919p-315525c.html Ex-CIA allies leading Afghan fight vs. G.I.s]{{dead link|date=February 2017}}, ''[[New York Daily News]]'', 2 December 2005</ref> At that time, Haqqani helped and protected [[Osama bin Laden]], who was building his own militia to fight Soviet-backed Afghanistan.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080912140306/http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/09/asia/09pstan.php 'US attack on Taliban kills 23 in Pakistan'], ''International Herald Tribune'', 9 September 2008. Retrieved on 10 September 2008.</ref> |
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The influential U.S. Congressman [[Charles Wilson (Texas politician)|Charlie Wilson]], who helped to direct tens of millions of dollars to the Afghan Islamists, was so taken by Haqqani that he referred to him as "goodness personified".<ref>[http://www.aljazeera.com/news/newsfull.php?newid=191082 'Who are the Taliban?']{{dead link|date=February 2017}}, Retrieved on 7 December 2008.</ref> He was a key US and Pakistani ally in resisting the Soviet-backed Afghanistan. Some news media outlets report that Haqqani even received an invitation to, and perhaps even visited, President [[Ronald Reagan]]'s [[White House]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiavision.com/news/article/topnews/233346/haqqani-was-once-a-white-house-guest/ |title=Haqqani was once a White House guest!|date=28 September 2011|publisher=Indiavision news|quote=Reports quoted Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Mallik saying, “The network’s aging leader, Jalaluddin Haqqani, was a respected commander and key US and Pakistani ally in resisting the Soviet Union after its 1979 invasion of Afghanistan. Haqqani even visited President Ronald Reagan at the White House.”}}</ref><ref name='ap20091229'>{{cite news|first=Nahal|last=Toosi|title=Haqqani network challenges US-Pakistan relations |date=29 December 2009|url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2010624388_apaspakistanhandlingthehaqqanis.html|agency= Associated Press|accessdate=25 October 2011}}{{dead link|date=February 2017}}</ref><ref name='npr20111003'>{{cite news|first = Sarah|last=Handel|title=Who Are The Haqqanis?|date=3 October 2011|publisher=NPR|url=http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/10/03/141016637/who-are-the-haqqanis| work=NPR|accessdate=1 November 2011}}</ref> although the photographs used to support the allegation of such a meeting have cast doubt that Haqqani ever visited the US.<ref name='newsint20110930'>{{cite news|first=Rahimullah|last=Yusufzai|title=Khalis, not Haqqani, was photographed with Reagan|date=30 September 2011|url=http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=70175&Cat=7|work=The News International|accessdate=24 October 2011|quote=Haqqani then was much younger and had a thick black beard. The evidence suggests he had never been to the US. He certainly was a well-known mujahideen commander of the Hezb-e-Islami (Khalis) — a party led by Maulvi Yunis Khalis, and had a status equal to another famous commander Ahmad Shah Masood. But Haqqani does not figure among the Afghan mujahideen leaders known to have been invited to the White House in Washington and hosted by President Reagan.}}</ref><ref name='bbc20111023'>{{cite news|title=Why Pakistan's media needs a code of conduct|date=23 October 2011|url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-15353185|work=BBC News|accessdate=25 October 2011|quote=More recently, an image of a bearded man wearing a substantial white turban and a brown blazer standing next to former US President Ronald Reagan was reprinted in many Pakistani dailies as an image of Reagan with the notorious Afghan militant Jalaluddin Haqqani. But Haqqani has never visited the US. The picture, is in fact of an Afghan mujahideen commander called Younis Khalis.}}</ref> (The pictures originally purporting to show this meeting are, in fact, of [[Mohammad Yunus Khalis]].)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pakistanmediawatch.com/2011/09/29/dawns-118-mistake|title=Dawn’s $118 mistake|date=29 September 2011|publisher=Pakistan Media Watch}}</ref><ref name="BBC 2011-09-28">{{cite web|url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/2011/09/110928_haqani_photo_tk.shtml|title=Jalaluddin Haqqani Never visited America| publisher=[[BBC Urdu]]|date=28 September 2011}}</ref><ref name="Dawn 2011-10-01">{{cite web|url= http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/01/clarification-younus-khalis-not-jalaluddin.html|title=Clarification: Younus Khalis, not Jalaluddin|publisher=[[Dawn (newspaper)|Dawn]]|date=1 October 2011}}</ref> |
The influential U.S. Congressman [[Charles Wilson (Texas politician)|Charlie Wilson]], who helped to direct tens of millions of dollars to the Afghan Islamists, was so taken by Haqqani that he referred to him as "goodness personified".<ref>[http://www.aljazeera.com/news/newsfull.php?newid=191082 'Who are the Taliban?']{{dead link|date=February 2017}}, Retrieved on 7 December 2008.</ref> He was a key US and Pakistani ally in resisting the Soviet-backed Afghanistan. Some news media outlets report that Haqqani even received an invitation to, and perhaps even visited, President [[Ronald Reagan]]'s [[White House]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiavision.com/news/article/topnews/233346/haqqani-was-once-a-white-house-guest/ |title=Haqqani was once a White House guest!|date=28 September 2011|publisher=Indiavision news|quote=Reports quoted Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Mallik saying, “The network’s aging leader, Jalaluddin Haqqani, was a respected commander and key US and Pakistani ally in resisting the Soviet Union after its 1979 invasion of Afghanistan. Haqqani even visited President Ronald Reagan at the White House.”}}</ref><ref name='ap20091229'>{{cite news|first=Nahal|last=Toosi|title=Haqqani network challenges US-Pakistan relations |date=29 December 2009|url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2010624388_apaspakistanhandlingthehaqqanis.html|agency= Associated Press|accessdate=25 October 2011}}{{dead link|date=February 2017}}</ref><ref name='npr20111003'>{{cite news|first = Sarah|last=Handel|title=Who Are The Haqqanis?|date=3 October 2011|publisher=NPR|url=http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/10/03/141016637/who-are-the-haqqanis| work=NPR|accessdate=1 November 2011}}</ref> although the photographs used to support the allegation of such a meeting have cast doubt that Haqqani ever visited the US.<ref name='newsint20110930'>{{cite news|first=Rahimullah|last=Yusufzai|title=Khalis, not Haqqani, was photographed with Reagan|date=30 September 2011|url=http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=70175&Cat=7|work=The News International|accessdate=24 October 2011|quote=Haqqani then was much younger and had a thick black beard. The evidence suggests he had never been to the US. He certainly was a well-known mujahideen commander of the Hezb-e-Islami (Khalis) — a party led by Maulvi Yunis Khalis, and had a status equal to another famous commander Ahmad Shah Masood. But Haqqani does not figure among the Afghan mujahideen leaders known to have been invited to the White House in Washington and hosted by President Reagan.}}</ref><ref name='bbc20111023'>{{cite news|title=Why Pakistan's media needs a code of conduct|date=23 October 2011|url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-15353185|work=BBC News|accessdate=25 October 2011|quote=More recently, an image of a bearded man wearing a substantial white turban and a brown blazer standing next to former US President Ronald Reagan was reprinted in many Pakistani dailies as an image of Reagan with the notorious Afghan militant Jalaluddin Haqqani. But Haqqani has never visited the US. The picture, is in fact of an Afghan mujahideen commander called Younis Khalis.}}</ref> (The pictures originally purporting to show this meeting are, in fact, of [[Mohammad Yunus Khalis]].)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pakistanmediawatch.com/2011/09/29/dawns-118-mistake|title=Dawn’s $118 mistake|date=29 September 2011|publisher=Pakistan Media Watch}}</ref><ref name="BBC 2011-09-28">{{cite web|url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/2011/09/110928_haqani_photo_tk.shtml|title=Jalaluddin Haqqani Never visited America| publisher=[[BBC Urdu]]|date=28 September 2011}}</ref><ref name="Dawn 2011-10-01">{{cite web|url= http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/01/clarification-younus-khalis-not-jalaluddin.html|title=Clarification: Younus Khalis, not Jalaluddin|publisher=[[Dawn (newspaper)|Dawn]]|date=1 October 2011}}</ref> |
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In October 2001, Haqqani was named the Taliban's military commander. He may have had a role in expediting the escape of [[Osama Bin Laden]]. Initially the Americans tried to woo him away from the Taliban. He refused their offers on the grounds that, as a Muslim, he was duty-bound to resist them, as "infidel invaders" just as he had the Soviets in earlier decades.<ref>Brian Glyn Williams, [https://books.google.com/books?id=cYtXJhByzoEC&pg=PA142 ''Afghanistan Declassified: A Guide to America's Longest War,''] University of Pennsylvania Pres, 2012 p.143.</ref> With his base in Khost under repeated American air attack, it is believed that in November or December of that year he crossed the [[Durand Line]] border into the [[Waziristan]] region of Pakistan. Four Guantanamo detainees -- [[Abib Sarajuddin]], [[Khan Zaman]], [[Gul Zaman]] and Mohammad Gul—were captured and held because American intelligence officials received a report that one of them had briefly hosted Haqqani shortly after the fall of the Taliban.<ref name=CsrtGul/><ref name=Nytimes020202> |
In October 2001, Haqqani was named the Taliban's military commander. He may have had a role in expediting the escape of [[Osama Bin Laden]]. Initially the Americans tried to woo him away from the Taliban. He refused their offers on the grounds that, as a Muslim, he was duty-bound to resist them, as "infidel invaders" just as he had the Soviets in earlier decades.<ref>Brian Glyn Williams, [https://books.google.com/books?id=cYtXJhByzoEC&pg=PA142 ''Afghanistan Declassified: A Guide to America's Longest War,''] University of Pennsylvania Pres, 2012 p.143.</ref> With his base in Khost under repeated American air attack, it is believed that in November or December of that year he crossed the [[Durand Line]] border into the [[Waziristan]] region of Pakistan. Four Guantanamo detainees -- [[Abib Sarajuddin]], [[Khan Zaman]], [[Gul Zaman]] and Mohammad Gul—were captured and held because American intelligence officials received a report that one of them had briefly hosted Haqqani shortly after the fall of the Taliban.<ref name=CsrtGul/><ref name=Nytimes020202> |
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</ref><ref name=CsrtSarajuddin>[{{DoD detainees ARB|Set_27_1901-1948.pdf}} Summarized transcripts (.pdf)], from [[Abib Sarajuddin]]'s ''[[Combatant Status Review Tribunal]]'' - pages 36-41</ref><ref name=CsrtGulZaman> |
</ref><ref name=CsrtSarajuddin>[{{DoD detainees ARB|Set_27_1901-1948.pdf}} Summarized transcripts (.pdf)], from [[Abib Sarajuddin]]'s ''[[Combatant Status Review Tribunal]]'' - pages 36-41</ref><ref name=CsrtGulZaman> |
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[{{DoD detainees ARB|Set_26_1848-1900.pdf}} mirror - pages 39-53]</ref> After the [[Presidency of Hamid Karzai|Karzai administration]] was formed in December 2001, in which many former warlords, mujahideen, and others took part, Interim-President [[Hamid Karzai]] decided to offer Haqqani a position in government but was rejected by Haqqani.<ref name=AsiaTimes040505/> |
[{{DoD detainees ARB|Set_26_1848-1900.pdf}} mirror - pages 39-53]</ref> After the [[Presidency of Hamid Karzai|Karzai administration]] was formed in December 2001, in which many former warlords, mujahideen, and others took part, Interim-President [[Hamid Karzai]] decided to offer Haqqani a position in government but was rejected by Haqqani.<ref name=AsiaTimes040505/> |
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In 2008, CIA officials confronted Pakistani officials with evidence of ties between [[Inter-Services Intelligence]] and Jalaluddin Haqqani<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/world/asia/30pstan.html "C.I.A. Outlines Pakistan Links With Militants", by Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt, July 30, 2008, [[New York Times]]]</ref> but the ISI denied the allegations.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080805125247/http://afp.google.com |
In 2008, CIA officials confronted Pakistani officials with evidence of ties between [[Inter-Services Intelligence]] and Jalaluddin Haqqani<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/world/asia/30pstan.html "C.I.A. Outlines Pakistan Links With Militants", by Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt, July 30, 2008, [[New York Times]]]</ref> but the ISI denied the allegations.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080805125247/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h71eZAqfE_5QTQevuZ4QocshPTwg "Pakistan denies 'malicious' report on CIA confrontation", July 30, 2008, [[Agence France Press]]]</ref> A [[Daande Darpkhel airstrike|September 2008 airstrike]] which targeted Haqqani, resulted in the deaths of between ten and twenty-three people. The US missile strike hit the house of Haqqani in the village [[Dandi Darpa Khail]] in [[North Waziristan]] and a close-by [[Madrasah|seminary]].<ref>{{Cite news|first=Barry |last=Newhouse |title=Suspected US Missile Strike Hits Taliban Commander's House |url=http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-09-08-voa15.cfm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080909093716/http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-09-08-voa15.cfm |dead-url=yes |archive-date= 9 September 2008 |work=[[Voice of America]] |publisher=[[Voice Of America]] |date=8 September 2008 |accessdate=8 September 2008 |df= }}</ref><ref name="ATimes">{{Cite news |first=Syed Saleem |last=Shahzad |title=US's 'good' war hits Pakistan hard|url=http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JI10Df02.html |publisher=[[Asia Times Online]]|date=9 September 2008|accessdate=9 September 2008}}</ref> The madrasah, however, was closed and Haqqani had previously left the area.<ref name="ATimes"/><ref name=IHT20080909>Perlez, J. & Shah, P.Z. 2008, [https://web.archive.org/web/20080912140306/http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/09/asia/09pstan.php 'US attack on Taliban kills 23 in Pakistan'], ''International Herald Tribune'', 9 September. Retrieved on 10 September 2008.</ref> Haqqani has been accused by the United States of involvement in the [[2008 Indian embassy bombing in Kabul]] and the [[February 2009 Kabul raids]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090213/jsp/nation/story_10528255.jsp|title=The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Nation - Embassy blast link to Kabul strike|publisher=|accessdate=15 February 2015}}</ref> |
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==Role in the Taliban insurgency== |
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Haqqani is the commander, with son [[Sirajuddin Haqqani|Sirajuddin]], of the [[Haqqani network]], which is believed to be based in Waziristan, Pakistan.<ref name="DawnJune22"> |
Haqqani is the commander, with son [[Sirajuddin Haqqani|Sirajuddin]], of the [[Haqqani network]], which is believed to be based in Waziristan, Pakistan.<ref name="DawnJune22"> |
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</ref> The network is made up of resistance forces waging a [[jihad]] against [[United States armed forces|US]]-led [[International Security Assistance Force|NATO forces]] and the [[Islamic republic]] of Afghanistan. On 16 October 2011, "Operation Knife Edge" was launched by NATO and Afghan forces against the Haqqani network in south-eastern Afghanistan. [[Ministry of Defense (Afghanistan)|Afghan Defense Minister]], [[Abdul Rahim Wardak]], explained that the operation will "help eliminate the insurgents before they struck in areas along the troubled frontier".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pajhwok.com/en/2011/10/18/push-launched-against-haqqanis-border-areas|title=Push launched against Haqqanis in border areas|publisher=|accessdate=15 February 2015}}</ref> Both he and his son, Sirajuddin appear to have been the first Taliban to adopt the Iraqi tactic of using suicide bombers, and their network is accused of engaging in kidnappings, beheadings, the killing of women, and assassinations.<ref>Brian Glyn Williams, [https://books.google.com/books?id=cYtXJhByzoEC&pg=PA142 ''Afghanistan Declassified: A Guide to America's Longest War,''] University of Pennsylvania Pres, 2012 p.144.</ref> [[George Gittoes]], the Australian maker of Pashto-language films at his Yellow House in Jalalabad says Haqqani, who has befriended him, would be ready to support [[Ashraf Ghani]] in future Afghan elections.<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/ice-cream-boys-of-afghanistan/5484494 'Ice-cream boys of Afghanistan,'][[Late Night Live]] 28 May 2014.</ref> |
</ref> The network is made up of resistance forces waging a [[jihad]] against [[United States armed forces|US]]-led [[International Security Assistance Force|NATO forces]] and the [[Islamic republic]] of Afghanistan. On 16 October 2011, "Operation Knife Edge" was launched by NATO and Afghan forces against the Haqqani network in south-eastern Afghanistan. [[Ministry of Defense (Afghanistan)|Afghan Defense Minister]], [[Abdul Rahim Wardak]], explained that the operation will "help eliminate the insurgents before they struck in areas along the troubled frontier".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pajhwok.com/en/2011/10/18/push-launched-against-haqqanis-border-areas|title=Push launched against Haqqanis in border areas|publisher=|accessdate=15 February 2015}}</ref> Both he and his son, Sirajuddin appear to have been the first Taliban to adopt the Iraqi tactic of using suicide bombers, and their network is accused of engaging in kidnappings, beheadings, the killing of women, and assassinations.<ref>Brian Glyn Williams, [https://books.google.com/books?id=cYtXJhByzoEC&pg=PA142 ''Afghanistan Declassified: A Guide to America's Longest War,''] University of Pennsylvania Pres, 2012 p.144.</ref> [[George Gittoes]], the Australian maker of Pashto-language films at his Yellow House in Jalalabad says Haqqani, who has befriended him, would be ready to support [[Ashraf Ghani]] in future Afghan elections.<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/ice-cream-boys-of-afghanistan/5484494 'Ice-cream boys of Afghanistan,'][[Late Night Live]] 28 May 2014.</ref> |
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Haqqani is fluent in [[Dari (Persian)|Persian]],<ref>Special meeting between Haqqani and [[Abdul Ali Mazari]] {{YouTube|ox-uZExdEUU|mazari 1/6}} (video made before 1995).</ref> [[Arabic]],<ref name="Atlantic">[https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200410/bergen The Long Hunt for Osama], ''[[Atlantic Monthly]]'', October 2004</ref> [[Urdu]] and his native [[Pashto language]]. He has at least seven sons: |
Haqqani is fluent in [[Dari (Persian)|Persian]],<ref>Special meeting between Haqqani and [[Abdul Ali Mazari]] {{YouTube|ox-uZExdEUU|mazari 1/6}} (video made before 1995).</ref> [[Arabic]],<ref name="Atlantic">[https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200410/bergen The Long Hunt for Osama], ''[[Atlantic Monthly]]'', October 2004</ref> [[Urdu]] and his native [[Pashto language]]. He has at least seven sons: |
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*[[Sirajuddin Haqqani]] who assumed leadership of the Haqqani network after Jalaluddin Haqqani. |
*[[Sirajuddin Haqqani]] who assumed leadership of the Haqqani network after Jalaluddin Haqqani. |
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*Badruddin Haqqani – younger than Sirajuddin. He was an operational commander of the network. He was killed in a US [[unmanned combat air vehicle|drone strike]] on 24 August 2012 in [[North Waziristan]].<ref name=time>{{cite news|title=Pakistani Officials Confirm Death of Key Militant|url=http://world.time.com/2012/08/30/pakistani-officials-confirm-death-of-key-militant/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120903033736/http://world.time.com |
*Badruddin Haqqani – younger than Sirajuddin. He was an operational commander of the network. He was killed in a US [[unmanned combat air vehicle|drone strike]] on 24 August 2012 in [[North Waziristan]].<ref name=time>{{cite news|title=Pakistani Officials Confirm Death of Key Militant |url=http://world.time.com/2012/08/30/pakistani-officials-confirm-death-of-key-militant/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120903033736/http://world.time.com/2012/08/30/pakistani-officials-confirm-death-of-key-militant/ |dead-url=yes |archive-date= 3 September 2012 |accessdate=31 August 2012 |newspaper=Time Magazine |date=30 August 2012 |agency=AP |df= }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Karen DeYoung |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-confirms-killing-of-haqqani-leader-in-pakistan/2012/08/29/e5973424-f20e-11e1-a612-3cfc842a6d89_story.html |title=U.S. confirms killing of Haqqani leader in Pakistan |publisher=The Washington Post |date=29 August 2012 |accessdate=11 October 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2013/09/taliban_confirm_deat_1.php|title=Taliban confirm death of Badruddin Haqqani in drone strike last year|publisher=|accessdate=15 February 2015}}</ref> |
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*Nasiruddin Haqqani – He was a key financier and emissary of the network. As the son of Jalaluddin's Arab wife, he spoke fluent Arabic and traveled to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for fundraising.<ref name='et20110922'>{{cite news|first=Zia|last=Khan|title=Who on earth are the Haqqanis?|date=22 September 2011|newspaper=The Express Tribune News Network|url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/257761/who-on-earth-are-the-haqqanis/|accessdate=23 September 2011}}</ref><ref name='lwj20100722'>{{cite news|first=Bill|last=Roggio|authorlink=Bill Roggio|title=US adds Haqqani Network, Taliban leaders to list of designated terrorists|date =22 July 2010|publisher=Public Multimedia Inc.|url= http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/07/us_adds_haqqani_netw.php|work=The Long War Journal|accessdate=1 November 2011}}</ref> He was killed by unknown assailants in [[Bhara Kahu]], in the eastern part of the [[Islamabad Capital Territory]], [[Pakistan]], on 11 November 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/630360/senior-haqqani-network-leader-killed-near-islamabad/|title=Senior Haqqani Network leader killed near Islamabad|work=The Express Tribune|accessdate=15 February 2015}}</ref> |
*Nasiruddin Haqqani – He was a key financier and emissary of the network. As the son of Jalaluddin's Arab wife, he spoke fluent Arabic and traveled to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for fundraising.<ref name='et20110922'>{{cite news|first=Zia|last=Khan|title=Who on earth are the Haqqanis?|date=22 September 2011|newspaper=The Express Tribune News Network|url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/257761/who-on-earth-are-the-haqqanis/|accessdate=23 September 2011}}</ref><ref name='lwj20100722'>{{cite news|first=Bill|last=Roggio|authorlink=Bill Roggio|title=US adds Haqqani Network, Taliban leaders to list of designated terrorists|date =22 July 2010|publisher=Public Multimedia Inc.|url= http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/07/us_adds_haqqani_netw.php|work=The Long War Journal|accessdate=1 November 2011}}</ref> He was killed by unknown assailants in [[Bhara Kahu]], in the eastern part of the [[Islamabad Capital Territory]], [[Pakistan]], on 11 November 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/630360/senior-haqqani-network-leader-killed-near-islamabad/|title=Senior Haqqani Network leader killed near Islamabad|work=The Express Tribune|accessdate=15 February 2015}}</ref> |
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*Mohammed Haqqani - Younger than Sirajuddin. He was a military commander of the network, and was killed in a US drone strike on February 18, 2010 in [[North Waziristan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/02/jalaluddin_haqqanis.php|title=Jalaluddin Haqqani's son killed in North Waziristan strike: Report|publisher=|accessdate=15 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/02/senior_al_qaeda_mili.php|title=Senior al Qaeda military commander killed in Predator strike|publisher=|accessdate=15 February 2015}}</ref> |
*Mohammed Haqqani - Younger than Sirajuddin. He was a military commander of the network, and was killed in a US drone strike on February 18, 2010 in [[North Waziristan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/02/jalaluddin_haqqanis.php|title=Jalaluddin Haqqani's son killed in North Waziristan strike: Report|publisher=|accessdate=15 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/02/senior_al_qaeda_mili.php|title=Senior al Qaeda military commander killed in Predator strike|publisher=|accessdate=15 February 2015}}</ref> |
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Jalaluddin Haqqani جلال الدين حقاني | |
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![]() Jalaluddin Haqqani | |
Born | c. 1939 Paktia Province, Afghanistan |
Died | c. 2014[1] (Alleged)[2] |
Allegiance | Haqqani network, Mujahideen |
Years of service | 1970's to present |
Battles/wars | Soviet war in Afghanistan |
Relations | Sirajuddin Haqqani (son) |
Mawlawi Jalaluddin Haqqani (Pashto: جلال الدين حقاني) (born 1939)[3] is the leader of the Haqqani network, an insurgent group fighting in guerilla warfare initially against US-led NATO forces, and the present government of Afghanistan they support. He distinguished himself as an internationally sponsored insurgent fighter in the 1980s during the Soviet war in Afghanistan, including Operation Magistral. By 2004, he was directing pro-Taliban militants to launch a holy war in Afghanistan. Within Pakistan, Jalaluddin had a cordial relation with Pakistan but he did not act against the TTP, earning controversy though Pakistan saw him as a strategic asset who could mediate between the various factions. Jalaluddin retains considerable local popularity on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, and he is the most experienced Islamist leader in the region.[4] Steve Coll, author of Ghost Wars, claims that Haqqani introduced suicide bombing in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.[5][6]
Media reports emerged in late July 2015 that Haqqani had died the previous year.[7] These reports were denied by the Taliban and some members of the Haqqani family.[2][8]
Early life
Haqqani was born, the son of a wealthy landowner and trader, in 1939 in the village of Karezgay in the Zadran district of Paktia Province, Afghanistan, though the family later moved to Sultankhel.[9] He is an ethnic Pashtun from the Zadran tribe of Khost. He undertook advanced religious studies at the Dar-al-'Ulam Haqqaniya Deobandi seminary in 1964[10] and was graduated with a doctorate which entitled him to the status of mawlawi in Peshawar in 1970.[11] After King Zahir Shah's exile and President Daoud Khan rise to power in 1973, the political situation in Afghanistan was slowly beginning to change. A number of parties such as the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) and others were seeking power. Haqqani was one of them, and after being suspected of plotting against the government he went into exile and based himself in and around Miranshah, Pakistan. From there he began to organise a rebellion against the government of Daoud Khan in 1975.[12] After the 1978 Marxist revolution by the PDPA, Haqqani joined the Hezb-i Islami of Mawlawi Mohammad Yunus Khalis.[4] It was during this time that Haqqani began to build a relationship with the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy network.[5]
Mujahideen commander
In the 1980s, Jalaluddin Haqqani was cultivated as a "unilateral" asset of the CIA and received tens of thousands of dollars in cash for his work in fighting the Soviet-led Afghan forces in Afghanistan, according to an account in The Bin Ladens, a 2008 book by Steve Coll. He reputedly attracted generous support from prosperous Arab countries compared to other resistance leaders.[13] At that time, Haqqani helped and protected Osama bin Laden, who was building his own militia to fight Soviet-backed Afghanistan.[14]
The influential U.S. Congressman Charlie Wilson, who helped to direct tens of millions of dollars to the Afghan Islamists, was so taken by Haqqani that he referred to him as "goodness personified".[15] He was a key US and Pakistani ally in resisting the Soviet-backed Afghanistan. Some news media outlets report that Haqqani even received an invitation to, and perhaps even visited, President Ronald Reagan's White House,[16][17][18] although the photographs used to support the allegation of such a meeting have cast doubt that Haqqani ever visited the US.[19][20] (The pictures originally purporting to show this meeting are, in fact, of Mohammad Yunus Khalis.)[21][22][23]
During the rule of Najibullah in 1991, Haqqani captured the city of Khost, which became the first communist city to fall to the jihadis.[11] After the fall of Kabul to the Mujahideen forces in 1992, he was appointed Justice Minister of the Islamic State of Afghanistan, and refrained from taking sides in the fratricidal conflict that broke out between Afghani factions during the 1990s, a neutrality that was to earn him respect.[24]
Relations with the Taliban
Haqqani was not originally a member of the Taliban. In 1995, just prior to the Taliban's occupation of Kabul, he switched his allegiance to them. In 1996-97, he served as a Taliban military commander north of Kabul, and was accused of ethnic cleansing against local Tajik populations.[25] During the Taliban government, he served as the Minister of Borders and Tribal Affairs and governor of Paktia Province.[26]
In October 2001, Haqqani was named the Taliban's military commander. He may have had a role in expediting the escape of Osama Bin Laden. Initially the Americans tried to woo him away from the Taliban. He refused their offers on the grounds that, as a Muslim, he was duty-bound to resist them, as "infidel invaders" just as he had the Soviets in earlier decades.[27] With his base in Khost under repeated American air attack, it is believed that in November or December of that year he crossed the Durand Line border into the Waziristan region of Pakistan. Four Guantanamo detainees -- Abib Sarajuddin, Khan Zaman, Gul Zaman and Mohammad Gul—were captured and held because American intelligence officials received a report that one of them had briefly hosted Haqqani shortly after the fall of the Taliban.[26][28][29][30] After the Karzai administration was formed in December 2001, in which many former warlords, mujahideen, and others took part, Interim-President Hamid Karzai decided to offer Haqqani a position in government but was rejected by Haqqani.[4]
In 2008, CIA officials confronted Pakistani officials with evidence of ties between Inter-Services Intelligence and Jalaluddin Haqqani[31] but the ISI denied the allegations.[32] A September 2008 airstrike which targeted Haqqani, resulted in the deaths of between ten and twenty-three people. The US missile strike hit the house of Haqqani in the village Dandi Darpa Khail in North Waziristan and a close-by seminary.[33][34] The madrasah, however, was closed and Haqqani had previously left the area.[34][35] Haqqani has been accused by the United States of involvement in the 2008 Indian embassy bombing in Kabul and the February 2009 Kabul raids.[36]
Role in the Taliban insurgency
The success of the mujahideen fighters in the two-year Waziristan Conflict against the Pakistani para-military forces pressured the government to agree to the 2006 Waziristan Accord. In the absence of political will to confront militants with regular Pakistan Army units, a cease-fire agreement (allowing Taliban fighters to operate with impunity in Waziristan as long as Pakistani law is followed and the Taliban do not launch raids into neighboring Afghanistan) was reached.[citation needed] The local Taliban, identified by some as the Islamic Emirate of Waziristan,[37] appear to have been strengthened by the cease-fire agreement, as well as the release of some fighters detained by the Pakistani government at the start of hostilities.
Haqqani is the commander, with son Sirajuddin, of the Haqqani network, which is believed to be based in Waziristan, Pakistan.[38] The network is made up of resistance forces waging a jihad against US-led NATO forces and the Islamic republic of Afghanistan. On 16 October 2011, "Operation Knife Edge" was launched by NATO and Afghan forces against the Haqqani network in south-eastern Afghanistan. Afghan Defense Minister, Abdul Rahim Wardak, explained that the operation will "help eliminate the insurgents before they struck in areas along the troubled frontier".[39] Both he and his son, Sirajuddin appear to have been the first Taliban to adopt the Iraqi tactic of using suicide bombers, and their network is accused of engaging in kidnappings, beheadings, the killing of women, and assassinations.[40] George Gittoes, the Australian maker of Pashto-language films at his Yellow House in Jalalabad says Haqqani, who has befriended him, would be ready to support Ashraf Ghani in future Afghan elections.[41]
Personal life
Haqqani is fluent in Persian,[42] Arabic,[43] Urdu and his native Pashto language. He has at least seven sons:
- Sirajuddin Haqqani who assumed leadership of the Haqqani network after Jalaluddin Haqqani.
- Badruddin Haqqani – younger than Sirajuddin. He was an operational commander of the network. He was killed in a US drone strike on 24 August 2012 in North Waziristan.[44][45][46]
- Nasiruddin Haqqani – He was a key financier and emissary of the network. As the son of Jalaluddin's Arab wife, he spoke fluent Arabic and traveled to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for fundraising.[47][48] He was killed by unknown assailants in Bhara Kahu, in the eastern part of the Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan, on 11 November 2013.[49]
- Mohammed Haqqani - Younger than Sirajuddin. He was a military commander of the network, and was killed in a US drone strike on February 18, 2010 in North Waziristan.[50][51]
- Omar Haqqani - Younger than Sirajuddin. He was killed leading Haqqani Network fighters during a US military operation in Khost province in July 2008.
- Aziz Haqqani - Younger than Sirajuddin, and senior member of the network.[52]
- Anas Haqqani - Senior member of the network. He was arrested on October 15, 2014 by the Afghan forces, and sentenced to death in 2016.[53]
See also
References
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- ^ a b "Reports of Haqqani network founder's death, but family denies". Reuters. 31 July 2015. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
- ^ Vahid Brown, Don Rassler,Fountainhead of Jihad: The Haqqani Nexus, 1973-2012, Oxford University Press, 2013 p.28.
- ^ a b c Syed Salaam Shahzad (5 May 2004). "Through the eyes of the Taliban". Asia Times. Retrieved 10 February 2009.
- ^ a b Return of the Taliban, PBS Frontline, 3 October 2006
- ^ A. Gopal, Who are the Taliban? in: Nation, Volume: 287 Issue: 21 (22 December 2008) p20
- ^ "'Haqqani Network's chief died a year ago'". Daily Times. 31 July 2015. Archived from the original on 8 August 2015. Retrieved 31 July 2015.
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- ^ Vahid Brown, Don Rassler, ibid. p.28
- ^ Vahid Brown, Don Rassler pp.38,42.
- ^ a b Brian Glyn Williams, Afghanistan Declassified: A Guide to America's Longest War, University of Pennsylvania Pres, 2012 p.142.
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Reports quoted Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Mallik saying, "The network's aging leader, Jalaluddin Haqqani, was a respected commander and key US and Pakistani ally in resisting the Soviet Union after its 1979 invasion of Afghanistan. Haqqani even visited President Ronald Reagan at the White House."
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Haqqani then was much younger and had a thick black beard. The evidence suggests he had never been to the US. He certainly was a well-known mujahideen commander of the Hezb-e-Islami (Khalis) — a party led by Maulvi Yunis Khalis, and had a status equal to another famous commander Ahmad Shah Masood. But Haqqani does not figure among the Afghan mujahideen leaders known to have been invited to the White House in Washington and hosted by President Reagan.
- ^ "Why Pakistan's media needs a code of conduct". BBC News. 23 October 2011. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
More recently, an image of a bearded man wearing a substantial white turban and a brown blazer standing next to former US President Ronald Reagan was reprinted in many Pakistani dailies as an image of Reagan with the notorious Afghan militant Jalaluddin Haqqani. But Haqqani has never visited the US. The picture, is in fact of an Afghan mujahideen commander called Younis Khalis.
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- ^ "Jalaluddin Haqqani Never visited America". BBC Urdu. 28 September 2011.
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- ^ Brian Glyn Williams, Afghanistan Declassified: A Guide to America's Longest War, University of Pennsylvania Pres, 2012 pp.142-3.
- ^ Griffin, Michael. "US Post-Taleban Plans Hit Problems". Institute for War and Peace Reporting. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
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