So we are more secure now than we were 20 years ago, but my fear is that the decision to leave Afghanistan to its fate without any sort of military capabilities there to continue to fight terrorists is putting us in a weaker position than we were in just a couple of months ago.

Sirajuddin Haqqani

Sirajuddin Haqqani (Arabic: ???? ????? ?????? aliases Khalifa, and, Siraj Haqqani. born c.?1973 to 1980) is the current Afghan Minister of Interior and one of the two deputies of Taliban supreme commander, Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada. He is also the leader of the Haqqani network, a sub-set of the Taliban organisation, and a scion of the Haqqani clan. As deputy leader of the Taliban, he oversaw armed combat against American and coalition forces, reportedly from a base within North Waziristan District in Pakistan. Haqqani is currently wanted by the FBI for questioning, with the U.S. State Department offering a reward of $10 million for information about his location that will lead to his arrest.

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