Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Taliban’s delegate emir, has for quite some time been needed by the U.S. government.(Sirajuddin Haqqani on US)
The Taliban and al Qaeda “remain firmly adjusted and show no sign of breaking ties,” as per another report given by a U.N. observing group. The U.N’s. part states “report no material change to this relationship, which has developed further as an outcome of individual obligations of marriage and shared association in battle, presently solidified through second generational ties.”(Sirajuddin Haqqani on US)
This and different discoveries are predictable with past investigations arranged by the U.N. Security Council’s Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team. In any case, the latest report refers to new insight too.
The most charming case is that Sirajuddin Haqqani, the agent emir of the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is additionally an individual from al Qaeda’s initiative. This knowledge is referred to in a commentary, which expresses that as well as being a Taliban chief, Sirajuddin “is additionally evaluated to be an individual from the more extensive al Qaeda administration, yet not of the al Qaeda center authority (the Hattin Shura).”
The U.N. report doesn’t clarify what situate Sirajuddin is thought to hold inside al Qaeda’s “more extensive” initiative. U.S. authorities reached by FDD’s Long War Journal say it is conceivable that he holds a seat on at least one of al Qaeda’s shura, or warning committees.
The Hattin Shura referenced in the commentary isn’t characterized in the report. U.S. authorities say it is the main vital body inside al Qaeda’s shadowy framework. The Hattin Shura, named after a vital fight in Islamic history, has been driven by al Qaeda veterans situated in Iran, including the jihadist thought to be the gathering’s present appointee (naib) emir, an Egyptian known as Saif al Adel.(Sirajuddin Haqqani on US)
Almost 20 years after 9/11, there is next to no freely accessible data concerning al Qaeda’s present interior association. The Hattin Shura was set up around 2015 when a few al Qaeda pioneers were apparently delivered from some type of Iranian care. It assumes a prevailing part in the gathering’s general dynamic.
It is conceivable that the Hattin Shura was in a roundabout way referred to in a past U.N. report distributed in 2018. That report expressed: “Al Qaeda pioneers in the Islamic Republic of Iran have developed more unmistakable, working with” Ayman al-Zawahiri and “projecting his power more successfully than he could already.”
U.S. authorities say that the Hattin Shura has been a conspicuous piece of the al Qaeda association for quite a long while.
Sirajuddin’s nearby working relationship with al Qaeda is all around archived. In spite of the uncertainty in regards to Sirajuddin’s asserted job, his affectionate relationship with al Qaeda has been recorded by various sources.
For instance, documents recuperated in Osama container Laden’s compound talk about how al Qaeda was functioning with Sirajuddin to organize assaults on NATO powers in Afghanistan in 2010. The documents additionally lay out al Qaeda’s arrangement to force the Pakistani state into truce dealings. That arrangement utilized Sirajuddin’s capacity to go about as contact with components of the Pakistani military and knowledge foundation.
Albeit the Taliban’s disseminators are infrequently honest concerning the gathering’s relationship with al Qaeda, they do incidentally neglect the veil. In Dec. 2016, Manba’ al-Jihad Media for Production, which has for quite some time been partnered with the Haqqani Network, delivered a video named, “Obligation of Nation with the Mujahideen.” The video commended the solid, longstanding collusion between the Taliban and al Qaeda. It included sound discourse from Sirajuddin, just as other Taliban and al Qaeda figure.(Sirajuddin Haqqani on US)
In 2019, al Qaeda’s overall order lauded Sirajuddin’s dad, Jalaluddin Haqqani. Jalaluddin was one of Osama container Laden’s soonest tutors and brooded al Qaeda. In the tribute, al Qaeda explicitly tended to Sirajuddin Haqqani and the Taliban’s top chief, Haibatullah Akhundzada, as “our emirs in the Islamic Emirate.” Al Qaeda’s overall order said at the time that it took “comfort in the reality” that Sirajuddin is the “representative of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s Emir of the Faithful” and is continuing in his dad’s “strides.” In his own ensuing, individual commendation for Jalaluddin, Ayman al Zawahiri petitioned God for Allah to give Sirajuddin, whom he portrays as his “prominence,” with solace and “persistence.”
Sirajuddin acquired the authority of the Haqqani Network from his dad following the bringing down of the Taliban’s system in late 2001. The Haqqanis have been pursuing jihad to reestablish the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan from that point onward.
Past U.N. reports have transferred knowledge concerning the continuous connection between the Haqqani Network, a vital piece of the Taliban’s joint endeavor, and al Qaeda. This is obvious as individuals from the two organizations have been kindred spirits since the 1980s.
For example, a report delivered by the U.N. observing group in May 2020 expressed that the Taliban “consistently counseled” with al Qaeda during exchanges with the U.S. in Doha. That report referred to insight showing there were at any rate six detailed significant levels “gatherings between Al Qaeda and [the] Taliban senior administration held in the course of recent months.” Some of those gatherings supposedly elaborate authorities from the Haqqani Network. The checking group referred to anonymous “conversationalists” as saying that Ayman al Zawahiri himself “met with individuals from the Haqqani Network in February 2020.” The Haqqani assignment included Hafiz Azizuddin Haqqani and Yahya Haqqani. Yahya is Sirajuddin’s brother by marriage and has worked with al Qaeda for over 10 years. The Haqqani group “counseled” with Zawahiri “over the concurrence with the United States and the harmony cycle,” as per the U.N.(Sirajuddin Haqqani on US)
In early Jan., the U.S. Depository Department has likewise referred to knowledge reports showing that senior Haqqani Network authorities “have talked about shaping another joint unit of outfitted contenders in collaboration with and subsidized by al Qaeda.”
