Qari Ahmadullah
Qari Ahmadullah (Pashto: قاری احمدالله) (b.1975) was an Afghan politician and the Taliban's first interior minister in 1996.[1] [2][3]
He was also responsible for bribing anti-Taliban commanders to desert the ranks of the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan opposition. Ahmadullah also commanded troops fighting on frontlines in the north of the country against the Northern Alliance.
According to the Official Journal of the European Union, and the testimony of Abdul Haq Wasiq, before his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, Ahmadullah was the Minister of Security, and therefore also Minister of Intelligence, and the Governor of Takhar Province. Abdul Haq described Ahmadullah as an uneducated man.[1][4]
He was supposedly killed in the opening days of 2002, in the American airstrike against Mullah Taha's house in Zadran (though the Pentagon was unable to confirm Ahmadullah's death).[5] But a recent investigation in Harper's Magazine, 12 years after the incident, says Ahmadullah is alive .[6]
References
- 1 2 Official Journal of the European Union. COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 969/2007 of 17 August 2007 amending for the 83rd time Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities associated with Usama bin Laden, the Al-Qaida network and the Taliban, and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 467/2001. published by the Official Journal of the European Union 17 August 2007. Retrieved 2015-10-30.
- ↑ "Taleban spy chief 'killed in raid'". BBC News. 2002-01-03. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
- ↑ "Al Qaeda planning next phase". Christian Science Monitor. 2001-12-28. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
- ↑ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Abdul Haq Wasiq's Combatant Status Review Tribunal - pages 13-24
- ↑ "Taliban intelligence head reported killed in U.S. bombing". CNN. 2002-01-02. Retrieved 2010-05-22.
- ↑ Mashal, Mujib. "The Pious Spy: A Taliban intelligence chief's death and resurrection". Harper's Magazine (January 2014).