Big prize: Haqqani Network leader caught

[Toramana]

ISLAMABAD: Afghan and coalition forces have detained a key leader of the North Waziristan-based militant network blamed for fueling an increasingly deadly Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan.

The militant leader belongs to the network, led by aging Maulana Jalaluddin Haqqani and his three sons, the Kabul-based Afghan Online Press (AOP) reported, without mentioning his name. However, CNN identified him as Nasiruddin Haqqani, son of Jalaluddin Haqqani.

“He operates in the Afghan district of Sabari, in Khost province,” the AOP said. He is responsible for IED (improvised explosive device) attacks on the Afghan National Army and coalition forces in the province.

On December 21, security forces were tipped off about the presence of the Taliban leader and his comrades in a compound in Sabari district, the AOP said quoting a Nato press release. “They raided and secured the compound without resistance from people inside.”

Subsequently, security forces detained several people and seized a cache of firearms and ammunition. Later it transpired that they were militants from the Haqqani Network and one of them was a key leader.

However, CNN gave a different account of the arrest. “Nasiruddin Haqqani was detained while driving from Peshawar to the North Waziristan tribal region,” it said quoting Pakistani military intelligence sources. A western newspaper reported that Nasiruddin, whose jihadist pseudonym is Dr Khan, and his four companions, were arrested as they returned to Peshawar after performing Hajj in Saudi Arabia.

The paper identified one of his companions as Mullah Muhammad Jan, a senior commander of the Haqqani Network.

Since December 1, Afghan and coalition forces have detained 25 leaders and facilitators and 107 foot soldiers of the Haqqani Network. And interestingly, all of these arrests were made without firing a single gunshot.

US officials believe that the Haqqani Network has been using its bases in North Waziristan as a springboard for violence in Afghanistan.
The Afghan Taliban, on the other hand, have denied the arrest of Nasiruddin Haqqani. “I don’t think the news report is correct,” a key figure in the Taliban insurgency told The Express Tribune by phone from an undisclosed location.

Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) also denied the report. “No person by the name of Nasiruddin Haqqani and Mullah Muhammad Jan has landed at the Peshawar airport from Gulf states during the last 10 days,” FIA Director in Peshawar Zaibullah told The Express Tribune.
Westerns media quoted Afghan Taliban sources as saying that Nasiruddin was a frequent visitor to Gulf States. And he used different Pakistani passports to travel abroad to collect cash donations to keep the Afghan insurgency going.

According to the United Nations, the Haqqani Network is believed to have three main sources of funds: Gulf region donations, drug trafficking, and al Qaeda payments.

“In 2004, (Nasiruddin) Haqqani traveled to Saudi Arabia with a Taliban associate to raise funds for the Taliban. He also provided funds in 2004 to militants in Afghanistan for the purpose of disrupting the Afghan presidential election.

“From at least 2005 to 2008, Nasiruddin Haqqani collected funds for the Haqqani Network through various fundraising trips, including during regular travel to the United Arab Emirates in 2007 and through a fundraising trip to another Gulf state in 2008,” the United Nations said.

And late last year, Nasiruddin Haqqani “received several hundred thousand dollars from al Qaeda-associated individuals in the Arabian Peninsula” for network activities.

Earlier this year, the US Treasury Department cited Nasiruddin Haqqani for supporting acts of terrorism. His brother Sirajuddin Haqqani was designated a supporter of terrorism in 2008.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/94640/bi...leader-caught/

[Toramana]

By our correspondent
PESHAWAR: Taliban sources and family members of Maulvi Jalaluddin Haqqani on Thursday denied reports that Pakistani security agencies have arrested Nasiruddin Haqqani, the elder son of veteran Afghan leader Maulvi Jalaluddin Haqqani and an alleged fundraiser for the Haqqani network.

A section of national and international media, while quoting Pakistani intelligence agencies’ sources, reported that he was captured a few days back. It said sleuths of the intelligence agencies took him into custody while he was travelling from Peshawar to North Waziristan Agency. Nasiruddin Haqqani is one of Jalaluddin Haqqani’s several sons fighting the US-led forces across the border in Afghanistan. The US announced $5 million head money for Sirajuddin Haqqani in 2009 and also announced a reward for Nasiruddin Haqqani’s capture. Some media reports termed his arrest as a great victory in the ‘war against terror’. The UN in its report said Nasiruddin Haqqani was raising funds for the militant network to continue the fight against the US and Nato forces in Afghanistan.

Taliban and family sources of Haqqani denied the reports and said he was at a secure place outside Pakistan. “He wasn’t in Pakistan. He had no links with Pakistan’s security agencies or the Pakistani Taliban. Like other members of his family, Nasiruddin is actively involved in the Jihad against the US-led occupying forces in Afghanistan,” said a source close to his family requesting anonymity.

source : the news pakistan

[graveyardofempires]

i smell BS

[Toramana]

Jalaluddin Haqqani’s son arrested: report
LAHORE: Pakistan has arrested the son of terrorist leader Jalaluddin Haqqani, according to Taliban and Pakistani government sources, the Newsweek reported on Friday. Nasiruddin Haqqani, who goes by the codename Dr Khan, was reportedly travelling by car with four fellow terrorists from Peshawar to North Waziristan when he was picked up by Pakistani agents, the report said, adding that one of the men travelling with him was a senior Haqqani commander named Mullah Muhammad Jan. Nasiruddin is reportedly the Haqqani network’s key fundraiser and financial operative in the Middle East. The report cited Afghan Taliban sources as saying that Nasiruddin was a frequent visitor to the Gulf, travelling on various Pakistani passports to raise large cash donations for the Afghan war. daily times monitor

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default...-12-2010_pg1_6

[کیش]

Siraj haqqani In an interview last year, stated that one of his brothers died in a drone attack, while the other died fighting in Afghanistan.

[Toramana]

Siraj haqqani In an interview last year, stated that one of his brothers died in a drone attack, while the other died fighting in Afghanistan.

Here.

"A number of Haqqani family members also are involved in the Miram Shah Shura. These include the longtime commanders Haji Khalil and Ibrahim, two brothers of Jalaluddin, and Badruddin and Nasiruddin Haqqani, two of Jalaluddin's sons. Nasiruddin, who is Sirajuddin's half brother by way of Jalaluddin's Arab wife, can speak Arabic and has acted as a liaison with al-Qaeda figures. For instance, senior al-Qaeda commander Abu Laith al-Libi (who was killed in a drone attack in 2008) "

http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts...qani_network_0

Haqqani speaks fluent Arabic and one of his two wives is from the United Arab Emirates10 – assets that have helped him raise a great deal of money from Saudi Arabia and individuals in the Persian Gulf. He also frequently travels to Gulf Arab states, where he is highly respected and has key contacts from the times of the anti-Soviet war.11 Haqqani established a close relationship with Osama Bin Laden in the 1980s and: “It's not a coincidence that the first camps that bin Laden created in Afghanistan, Lion's Den and some related infrastructure that he started to build, were in Haqqani's territory.”12 The Haqqanis currently run a network of religious seminaries and training bases of Afghan and foreign fighters in North and South Waziristan.13 A U.S. military spokesman in eastern Afghanistan, Maj. Chris Belcher, has accused the Haqqanis of inviting foreign fighters from Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Chechnya, Turkey and Middle Eastern countries into Afghanistan.14

http://www.understandingwar.org/themenode/haqqani-network

[Toramana]

By Syed Saleem Shahzad
The arrest of Naseeruddin Haqqani, the son of Jalaluddin Haqqani and the brother of Sirajuddin Haqqani, marks the beginning of a battle between the Pakistani security forces and the militants. The Friday attack in Mohmand tribal agency led by Al-Qaeda commander Ziaur Rahman is the first reaction fierce reaction.
Appearing to answer U.S. calls for greater toughness against Taliban’s largest Haqqani networks operating on its border, Pakistan withdrew its ceasefire with militants and followed Naseeruddin Haqqani, an owner of a business outlet in Peshawar, who was traveling by car with four fellow militants from the city of Peshawar to North Waziristan when he was picked up by Pakistani agents. One of the men traveling with him was a senior Haqqani commander named Mullah Muhammad Jan.
This is the second arrest of Naseeruddin Haqqani. Earlier, in early 2009 Naseeruddin Haqqani was arrested by the Pakistani security agencies. Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud (now killed) secured his release by swapping some Pakistan army prisoners.
Haqqani’s arrest is a major policy shift. Only a few months back he was part of a backchannel talks with various players for a ceasefire with NATO forces in Afghanistan.
He had been at the Saudi Embassy in Islamabad in September. Further, the embassy had arranged for him and his family to go on pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia (read Taliban peace talks come to a halt, Asia Times Online)
Haqqani was arrested immediately after the Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani’s recent visit to Kabul and following Admiral. Mike Mullen last week’s unscheduled stop in Islamabad, delivering a message of “strategic impatience” to the government there. Arrest, therefore, indicates loud and clear broader policy shift and for the start a big battle between Pakistan and the militants.

[Toramana]

The above news surely would plunge unknown warrior and Madam Cateya into a tide of rage...

[ScimitarXEdge]

I don't feel bad for the fate of individuals who tell others to blow themselves up for some deranged idea of martyrdom

what I feel bad for is the Geopolitical Designs of the Imperialists are being lauded as victories by people who claim to stand for Pashtoons and Afghans.

One type of crook always celebrates his fellow crooks.

[afghan]

this arrest might be a part of peace talks, why he was untouchable till now, it seems some kind of conspiracy. will be released soon.

[MazloomYarMasud]

this arrest might be a part of peace talks, why he was untouchable till now, it seems some kind of conspiracy. will be released soon.

Naseeruddin Haqqani’s arrest ends backchannel talks, marks the beginning of big regional battle

By Syed Saleem Shahzad

The arrest of Naseeruddin Haqqani, the son of Jalaluddin Haqqani and the brother of Sirajuddin Haqqani, marks the beginning of a battle between the Pakistani security forces and the militants. The Friday attack in Mohmand tribal agency led by Al-Qaeda commander Ziaur Rahman is the first reaction fierce reaction.

Appearing to answer U.S. calls for greater toughness against Taliban’s largest Haqqani networks operating on its border, Pakistan withdrew its ceasefire with militants and followed Naseeruddin Haqqani, an owner of a business outlet in Peshawar, who was traveling by car with four fellow militants from the city of Peshawar to North Waziristan when he was picked up by Pakistani agents. One of the men traveling with him was a senior Haqqani commander named Mullah Muhammad Jan.

This is the second arrest of Naseeruddin Haqqani. Earlier, in early 2009 Naseeruddin Haqqani was arrested by the Pakistani security agencies. Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud (now killed) secured his release by swapping some Pakistan army prisoners.

Haqqani’s arrest is a major policy shift. Only a few months back he was part of a backchannel talks with various players for a ceasefire with NATO forces in Afghanistan.

He had been at the Saudi Embassy in Islamabad in September. Further, the embassy had arranged for him and his family to go on pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia (read Taliban peace talks come to a halt, Asia Times Online)
Haqqani was arrested immediately after the Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani’s recent visit to Kabul and following Admiral.

Mike Mullen last week’s unscheduled stop in Islamabad, delivering a message of “strategic impatience” to the government there. Arrest, therefore, indicates loud and clear broader policy shift and for the start a big battle between Pakistan and the militants.

[MazloomYarMasud]

UnknownPrince

Your Talibs are hiding in Saudi Embassys in Punjab. Pakistan has the full capability of destroying these badly disorganised mercenaries but they choose to keep Talibs as their little proxy Slaves.

You are sat in the West and can not even Speak Pushto and gives me a suspision that your another of those Punjabis pulling out the "Jihadi Card" to keep Pashtuns divided and enslaved.

While your sat in the West, not long ago you praised the suicide attack on innocent Pashtuns in Bajaur.

I hope one day you are caught and I will enjoy watching you cry like a baby.

You will see very soon Taliban wiped out off the map, not even your god or mankind will save them.

[ScimitarXEdge]

If you're going by what people write on this forum as evidence of who they are or not;

your constant advocation of Capitalist Industrial Manufactured Constructs of "Modernity", defense of Capitalist Perversion of Jesus' birth like Christmas and references to "Kool Aid" and cheers of "good work USA" for their Imperialist Divide and Rule agenda would be striking hints as to liasons with the CIA. I don't see how someone raised in Pakhtunkhwah can somehow isolate references for "Kool Aid".

Nevermind being able to speak Pashto; the CIA has had 10 years to learn it which could be a reasonable explaination why this sudden emergence of Pashto speaking pro-Imperialists seem to have erupted in the last two years on the internet.

Of course the typical response back would be to pull the "Conspiracy Theory" card disregarding the fact their own Conspiracy Theories are peddling here.

[MazloomYarMasud]

The biggest Imperialists are those Beduions from Arabia who have opened Shop in the Pashtun region to spread their backward,rapist Ideology of Violence, Backwardness and Murder in the name of Al Qaeda. Its become a big fashion on here to see those with Half Pashtun blood working against the Pashtun people.

You see Azmal, These Arabs or Half Arabs or Supporters/Mawalis of Arabs do not discuss the modern slavery trade in Sudan which is operated by Arabs, the way Arabs treat non Arab Muslims in labour camps in Dubai and Saudi, the way indonesian/Phillipino women are treated, how the kings son of the Wahabi Kingdom turned out to be a Homosexual murderer, oh what about the sucide bombings of our innocent folk who go to peaceful jirgas, or the Arab bedion culture that has destroyed and brought our own culturally rich region into the backwardness of Arab Bediions who hate everything.

Why dont they condem the attacks on our people? Why dont they discuss how Palestinians slaughter eachother daily, how Muslim Palestinians kill Christian Palestinians over tattoos of Jesus and a cross? and vice versa?

The Arab is a violent, intolarant region that must be tamed, its wrong for America to invade or any other western state, they should just place sanctions on them and let them be forced to civilise themselves.

Even a post war state such as Vietnam is more wealther and developed then most Arab states, without the Oil, lets see how long it takes before the world will not act against their barbaric savage ways.

[Catya Sher]

ScimitarXEdge wrote:
"CIA has had 10 years to learn it which could be a reasonable explaination why this sudden emergence of Pashto speaking pro-Imperialists seem to have erupted in the last two years on the internet"

Aha/ are there truly a lot of them?
Are they mostly over in other forums, or here?
For Mi-G [previous name] doesn't speak it.
However he sure fits the criteria for spreading propaganda with every waking breath.