U.S. Designates Pakistan-Based Insurgent Commander as Terrorist
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has designated the commander of a Pakistan-based insurgent group as a terrorist and banned Americans from doing business with him.
Badruddin Haqqani is the senior military commander for the Haqqani Network, a Taliban-affiliated group that operates from North Waziristan, a tribal area in Pakistan, and conducts attacks on U.S. troops in Afghanistan, the State Department said in a statement today in Washington. He is a son of the group’s founder, Jalaluddin Haqqani, who had previously been designated as a terrorist by the U.S.