The Taliban praised suicide bombers who died in the course of the warfare towards the previous authorities and its Western allies and supplied their households sums of money and guarantees of land, the motion’s inside ministry stated in an announcement.
Sirajuddin Haqqani, the appearing inside ministry who has a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head as a “specially designated global terrorist”, met the households at a ceremony on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, which was itself focused by suicide bombers in 2018.
Official pictures of the assembly on Tuesday obscured his face. “In his speech, the minister praised the Jihad and sacrifices of the martyrs and Mujahidin and called them heroes of Islam and the country,” the ministry stated in an announcement on Twitter.
Families of the suicide bombers got clothes, 10,000 afghani ($111) and promised plots of land, spokesman Qari Sayeed Khosti stated.Haqqani took over from his father Jalaluddin Haqqani as head of the Haqqani community, a militant group affiliated with the Taliban that was blamed by Western intelligence providers for a number of the bloodiest suicide assaults of the warfare.
He is needed for questioning by the FBI in reference to an assault on one other lodge in Kabul in 2008 wherein six individuals together with an American citizen had been killed.
Following the Taliban’s victory over the Western-backed authorities which collapsed in August, Islamic State militants have carried out a collection of suicide bombings towards mosques and different targets, killing a whole lot of civilians.
