Photo: AP
Provided by Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS), Anis
Haqqani, a senior leader of the al-Qaida-linked Haqqani network and a
brother of the network's leader Sirajuddin Haqqani, poses for a picture
in Kabul, Afghanistan. Officials said Anis Haqqani and Hafiz Rashid, a
senior commander of the network, have been arrested by the Afghan
intelligence service NDS in eastern Khost province.
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Photo: APProvided
by Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS), Hafiz Rashid, a
senior leader of the al-Qaida-linked Haqqani network, poses for a
picture in Kabul, Afghanistan. Officials said Rashid, a senior commander
of the network, and Anis Haqqani, another senior leader of the network,
have been arrested by the Afghan intelligence service NDS in eastern
Khost province.
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Photo: APProvided
by Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS), Anis Haqqani, a
senior leader of the al-Qaida-linked Haqqani network and a brother of
the network's leader Sirajuddin Haqqani, poses for a picture in Kabul,
Afghanistan. Officials said Anis Haqqani and Hafiz Rashid, a senior
commander of the network, have been arrested by the Afghan intelligence
service NDS in eastern Khost province.
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KABUL,
Afghanistan (AP) — Two senior leaders of the al-Qaida-linked Haqqani
network have been arrested in eastern Khost province, the Afghan
intelligence service said Thursday, claiming a major blow to the
Pakistan-based militant group.
Anis Haqqani, a brother of the network's leader,
and Hafiz Rashid, who allegedly helped equip suicide bombers and select
targets for attacks, were detained Tuesday in a special operation, the
National Directorate of Security said in a statement."It is one of the biggest and most important arrests by NDS, and has strategic impact on this network and can cause disorder in its operations and weaken its fighting capabilities," the statement said, without providing details. The Associated Press could not immediately reach a Taliban spokesman for comment.
The statement said Anis Haqqani was an expert in computers and use of propaganda through social networks, and played a key role in the group's strategic decisions as a deputy to his brother, network leader Sirajuddin Haqqani.
"He (Anis) was responsible for collecting and preparing funds from Arabic countries to carry out operations of this network," the NDS statement said. Rashid was responsible for choosing targets and providing equipment to suicide bombers in Afghanistan, it said.
The Haqqanis are allied with al-Qaida and the Afghan Taliban and are accused of staging many cross-border attacks from their base in North Waziristan, Pakistan, including a 19-hour siege at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul in 2011.
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