The United States has removed multimillion-dollar bounties on three senior Taliban officials, including Sirajuddin Haqqani, the interior minister and leader of the Haqqani network.
This move signals a potential shift in US-Taliban relations, following the Taliban’s release of an American hostage. The Haqqani network was responsible for some of the deadliest attacks during the war in Afghanistan. Afghan officials confirmed the decision, which affects Haqqani, his brother, and a cousin.
The US has not officially commented on the reasoning behind the decision.
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So the government spent decades funding a war, put bounties on these guys, and now just quietly removes them—classic example of why you can’t trust the state to do anything right.
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US lifts bounties on Taliban leader Haqqani among three
According to the media reports, Afghan interior ministry spokesman Abdul Mateen Qani said the US government had revoked the bounties placed on Sirajuddin Haqqani, Abdul Aziz Haqqani, and Yahya Haqqani. “These three individuals are two brothers and one paternal cousin,” Qani told The Associated Press.
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