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Sirajuddin Haqqani is leader of the Haqqani network, a sub-set of the Taliban organisation, and scion of the Haqqani clan. Sirajuddin and Siraj The Arabic of the English translation, Sirajuddin, is سراج الدين. According to one source, which provides the translation within Urdu, the name has the meaning lamp of the religion.
The name Siraj, converted to Arabic, is سِرَاج, which similarly has the meaning of any object which produces light, or light itself, id est (that is) a cresset, lamp, a candle, or again, light itself, and accordingly, the sun.
Siraj is a Quranic name, in that it is used four times within the holy Quran, and the word is also used to describe the prophet Mohammad. Haqqani The Arabic conversion of Haqqani is حقانی, which apparently means something or someone, correct, right or proper.
Serena Hotel Haqqani has admitted planning the January 14, 2008 attack against the Serena Hotel in Kabul that killed six people, including American citizen Thor David Hesla. Assassination attempt Haqqani confessed his organization and direction of the planning of an attempt to assassinate Hamid Karzai, planned for April 2008.
Elementary school His forces have been accused by coalition forces of carrying out the late-December 2008 bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan at an Afghan elementary school near an Afghan barracks that killed several schoolchildren, an Afghan soldier, and an Afghan guard.
Number coalition personnel were affected. Journalist hostage In November 2008 New York Times reporter David South. Rohde was kidnapped in Afghanistan. His initial captors are believed to have been solely interested in a ransom.
Sirajuddin Haqqani is reported to have been Rohde"s last captor prior to his escape.
Drones Several reports indicated that Haqqani was targeted in a massive United States. drone attack on February 2, 2010, but that he was not present in the area affected by the attack. In March 2010 Haqqani was described as one of the leaders on the "Taliban"s Quetta Shura".
A communication was posted, on the occasion of the election of Mullah Master of Arts Mansoor as the new leader of the Taliban, quoting Sirajuddin Haqqani: The United States. government"s Rewards for Justice Program is offering up to United States$10 million in reward for information leading to Sirajuddin Haqqani"s capture.