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	CNN.com - Afghan warlord Dostum survives attack - Jan 20, 2005
		Abdul Rashid Dostum was shaken by the noise and the smoke from the explosion, but otherwise unharmed in the attack, a member of his security detail told The Associated Press.
		He is particularly disliked by ethnic Pashtuns, from whom the Taliban drew their main strength.
		Mullah Abdul Hakim Latifi, a man who claimed to speak for the Taliban, said one of its members had carried out the attack to avenge the alleged slaughter of Taliban fighters in northern Afghanistan in late 2001.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/asiapcf/01/20/afghan.dostum.ap/index.html (679 words)

	WXIA-11alive.com - Print Article - Atlanta,Georgia,11Alive,ATLANTA,News,Weather,Doppler,sports,events (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Faizan, a spokesman for provincial governor, said the bus driver, who survived the blast unhurt and fled afterward, was held for questioning.
		Abdul Malik Malikzai, a senior security official, blamed Taliban and al-Qaida insurgents for the attack, the latest targeting election workers in the lead-up to the polls.
		Abdul Hakim Latifi, who claims to speak for the Taliban, told The Associated Press that the bomb was detonated by remote control, and threatened more violence.
	www.11alive.com /news/printarticle.aspx?storyid=48626 (678 words)

	5 aid workers killed in Afghanistan \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		The killings were another blow to the embattled aid workers in Afghanistan, who have seen 32 of their colleagues, and at least five other foreigners, killed since March 2003, often the targets of attacks by Taliban and other militants intent on stalling aid and reconstruction efforts.
		Abdul Hakim Latifi, a spokesman for the Taliban group driven from power in the U.S.-led invasion in 2001, claimed responsibility for the attack in telephone calls to news agencies.
		Three foreigners – a Belgian woman, a Dutch man and a Norwegian man – and two Afghan men, all working for the Dutch branch of the medical aid organization, were killed when gunmen fired on their vehicle east of Qal'eh-ye Now, the capital of the Badghis province.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040603/news_1n3afghan.html (396 words)

	[ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
		Mullah Abdul Hakim Latifi, purportedly speaking on behalf of the neo-Taliban, said that the group carried out the attack against the MSF aid workers, AP reported on 2 June.
		Latifi made the claim over the telephone to AP, saying that "international aid workers were working for the policy of America." Latifi warned of more attacks in the future.
		Latifi appears to be a new name on the growing list of individuals claiming to speak on behalf of the neo-Taliban, often in contradictory terms (see "RFE/RL Afghanistan Report," 4 March and 1 April 2004).
	www.rferl.org /newsline/2004/06/6-SWA/swa-030604.asp?po=y (1583 words)

	Portsmouth Herald World News: Bomb strikes Afghan bazaar
		The coalition also is concerned that the Taliban could target a loya jirga, or grand council, in Kabul next week that is designed to debate and ratify a new Afghan constitution.
		Speaking with The AP in Kandahar by satellite telephone, Taliban spokesman Mullah Abdul Hakim Latifi said the bomb was meant for U.S. soldiers shopping at the bazaar, but went off later than planned.
		Latifi claimed that Taliban also were behind an attack Wednesday in Kandahar, that wounded two U.S. soldiers, one of them seriously.
	www.seacoastonline.com /2003news/12072003/world/64433.htm (570 words)

	Afghanistan timeline January 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Asadullah Abdul Rahman, Muhammad Ismail Agha and a third child (ages 13 to 15) were released by U.S. officials from Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and returned to Afghanistan.
		In Kabul, a group of Loya jirga delegates led by Abdul Hafiz Mansoor made claims that the version of the Constitution of Afghanistan signed by Hamid Karzai on January 26 contained more that fifteen changes from the document approved of on January 4.
		Near the Afghan border town of Chaman, Pakistani forces arrested Maulvi Abdul Mannan Khawajazai, who ran the Taliban finances and was once the governor of the western Badghis region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afghanistan_timeline_January_2004 (2384 words)

	[ www.azadiradio.org ]
		Mullah Abdul Hakim Latifi, purportedly speaking on behalf of the neo-Taliban, said that the group carried out the attack against the MSF aid workers, AP reported on 2 June.
		Latifi made the claim over the telephone to AP, saying that "international aid workers were working for the policy of America." Latifi warned of more attacks in the future.
		Latifi appears to be a new name on the growing list of individuals claiming to speak on behalf of the neo-Taliban, often in contradictory terms (see "RFE/RL Afghanistan Report," 4 March and 1 April 2004).
	www.azadiradio.org /en/weeklyreport/2004/06/10.asp (3303 words)

	USATODAY.com - U.S. planes attack Taliban in Afghanistan
		Elsewhere, officials in the embattled south and east said Taliban militants riding motorcycles killed an Afghan soldier in an attack on troops guarding a shipment of aid, while a rocket attack further west killed two people.
		Latifi said two more Afghan soldiers were killed Sunday night in a rocket attack near Tirin Kot, the capital of Uruzgan province, about 250 miles southwest of Kabul.
		A Norwegian peacekeeper died Sunday in a rocket attack in Kabul also claimed by Latifi for the Taliban.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-05-25-afghan-fighting_x.htm (579 words)

	[ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
		Abdul Rashid Dostum, the powerful leader of the northeastern-based militia Junbish-e Melli, has declared his candidacy for president in October's election, AP reported on 22 July.
		As expected, Karzai named Abdul Karim Khalili, currently one of his deputies, as his choice for the post of second vice president.
		Latifi said Taliban fighters burned the mayor's office and two pickup trucks.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2004/07/26-310704.htm (6012 words)

	RedOrbit - General - Taliban: Afghan Blast Targeted Americans
		Later, Taliban spokesman Mullah Abdul Hakim Latifi said the bombings was carried out by fighters from the hard-line Islamic movement, ousted from power by U.S. forces two years ago.
		Latifi, a former Taliban official, last week accurately announced that Taliban had freed a Turkish engineer after holding him hostage for a month.
		Qasim Khan, a doctor at Kandahar hospital, said three people seriously injured by the blast and flying glass had been taken to the U.S. military base at the airport for treatment.
	www.redorbit.com /news/general/36715/taliban_afghan_blast_targeted_americans/index.html (594 words)

	Blast Kills Two Afghan Election Workers \| The Agonist
		Abdul Malik Malikzai, a senior security official, blamed Taliban and al-Qaida insurgents for the attack, the latest targeting election workers in the lead-up to the polls.
		Abdul Hakim Latifi, who claims to speak for the Taliban, told The Associated Press that the bomb was detonated by remote control, and threatened more violence.
		A man claiming to represent the Taliban, Abdul Latif Hakimi, told AFP via satellite phone that the bomb had been fixed to the underside of the bus.
	agonist.org /20060303/blast_kills_two_afghan_election_workers?highlight= (4540 words)

	Mine Blast Kills Nine Afghan Soldiers - Military Photos
		Elsewhere, an Afghan border guard was killed when a gunman opened fire on a car at an illegal checkpoint in the southeast, police said.
		Mullah Abdul Hakim Latifi, a man who regularly claims to speak for the Taliban, claimed responsibility for the mine blast on behalf of the hard-line militia.
		The 10 soldiers from a border guard unit were aboard a pickup truck when it struck the mine on a road near Spinboldak, a frontier town in southern Kandahar province, Gen. Abdul Raziq Khan told The Associated Press.
	www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=33772 (572 words)

	Afghan Car Bomb Injures U.S. Soldier - News - Afghanistan.org
		It was impossible to immediately clarify the discrepancy between their account and that of the U.S. military.
		A purported Taliban spokesman, Abdul Hakim Latifi, claimed responsibility for the bombing.
		Latifi has contacted AP and other news organizations with Taliban statements in the past, and appears to speak for the group.
	www.afghanistan.org /news_detail.asp?16992 (824 words)

	e-Ariana - Todays Afghan News
		The killing of five MSF staff in north-western Badghis province was the deadliest for any international aid agency since the fall of the Taliban, and brought to more than 30 the toll of relief workers killed since March last year.
		Latifi claimed responsibility at the time, but MSF officials said the interior minister told them a former local security chief had ordered the killings in protest at being ousted.
		In another setback, MSF's appeal to the Taliban to recognise its neutrality fell on deaf ears."Some NGOs like MSF say they are helping the Afghan people but behind they are supporting US policy, they are spies," said Abdul Hakim Latifi, a purported Taliban spokesman.
	www.e-ariana.com /ariana/eariana.nsf/allDocs/26BA3496E82F262287256EE10047229D?OpenDocument (1590 words)

	"It's An Infanticidal Day In The Neighborhood.
		Taliban spokesman Mullah Abdul Hakim Latifi said the bombing was carried out by fighters from the hard-line Islamic movement, replaced by hardline capitalist forces from the U.S. two years ago.
		Latifi, a former Taliban official, last week accurately announced that the Taliban had freed a Turkish engineer after holding him hostage for a month.
		Kandahar is the stronghold of the Taliban, whose supporters this year have mounted a wave of deadly attacks on soldiers from the U.S.-controlled coalition, U.S. puppet Afghan officials and aid workers, the camp followers of U.S. hegemony.
	www.theassassinatedpress.com /merdeduckt.htm (737 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation > America's War on Terror -- Britons killed in Afghanistan had refused ...
		Abdul Hakim Latifi, who claims to speak for the Taliban, said Thursday that its rebels carried out the killings, and threatened further attacks against U. staff preparing the elections, due in September, and Afghans who register to vote.
		It was not possible to independently verify the claims of Latifi, who is one of several people who claim to speak for the Taliban.
		The two Britons were preparing safe registration sites in Nuristan for the United Nations, which has vowed to press on with plans to register some 10 million Afghans by the end of June.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/terror/20040506-0329-afghan-foreignerskilled.html (537 words)

	Four foreign engineers kidnapped in Afghanistan -DAWN - Top Stories; December 9, 2003
		On Sunday, Taliban spokesman Mullah Abdul Hakim Latifi claimed responsibility for that abduction.
		Latifi, a former Taliban official, had accurately announced that Taliban had freed a Turkish road engineer after holding him hostage for a month.
		On Friday, unidentified men burst into the office of a Turkish construction company southeast of the capital Kabul, beat and tied up an Afghan staff member, then abducted two Turkish workers and an Afghan one, said Nick Downie of the Afghanistan NGO Security Office, which protects aid workers in the country.
	www.dawn.com /2003/12/09/top12.htm (277 words)

	CNN.com - Afghan warlord Dostum survives attack - Jan 20, 2005
		Abdul Rashid Dostum was shaken by the noise and the smoke from the explosion, but otherwise unharmed in the attack, a member of his security detail told The Associated Press.
		He is particularly disliked by ethnic Pashtuns, from whom the Taliban drew their main strength.
		Mullah Abdul Hakim Latifi, a man who claimed to speak for the Taliban, said one of its members had carried out the attack to avenge the alleged slaughter of Taliban fighters in northern Afghanistan in late 2001.
	edition.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/asiapcf/01/20/afghan.dostum.ap/?headline=Afghan~warlord~Dostum~survives~attack (680 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Middle East / Turkish engineer held in Afghanistan freed
		Aksoy was believed to have been kidnapped by suspected Taliban insurgents.
		Abdul Hakim Latifi, who claims to speak for the Taliban, said the engineer had been freed because "he is a Muslim" and that no ransom was paid.
		A senior Afghan official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that the man was in government custody.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2004/06/26/turkish_engineer_held_in_afghanistan_freed?mode=PF (242 words)

	cbs4denver.com - Mine Blast Kills Nine Afghan Soldiers
		The 10 soldiers from a border guard unit were aboard a pickup truck when it struck the land mine on a road near Spinboldak, a frontier town in southern Kandahar province, Gen. Abdul Raziq Khan, the unit's commander, told The Associated Press.
		Mullah Abdul Hakim Latifi, a man who regularly claims to speak for the Taliban, said its members detonated the mine by remote control and then opened fire on the stricken soldiers.
		He claimed 11 troops were killed and vowed the hardline militia would continue to attack Afghan and American forces.
	cbs4denver.com /topstories/topstories_story_029123015.html (491 words)

	CTV.ca \| US Election
		Taliban spokesman Abdul Hakim Latifi said the militia opened fire on the government office in Miana Shien district, 90 kilometres from the southern city of Kandahar, at about 3 a.m.
		One Taliban fighter died in the shootout, Latifi said.
		Khalid Pashtun, spokesman for the governor of Kandahar, confirmed that Rahmatullah was killed and the office gutted by fire.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/mini/CTVNews/20040713/taliban_afghanistan_040713?s_name=usElection2004&no_ads= (451 words)

	Afghan suicide attack toll rises - Breaking News
		Taliban spokesman Mullah Abdul Hakim Latifi said one of its fighters carried out the latest attack.
		"This man was an Afghan and he had a bomb strapped to his body," Latifi told The Associated Press by satellite telephone from an undisclosed location.
		Some previous assertions of responsibility for attacks from Latifi have turned out to be false.
	www.theage.com.au - http: //www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/24/1098556288513.html (614 words)

	Medbroadcast Health News
		On Thursday, members of MSF's 80 foreign staff were unplugging computers in its main Kabul office and preparing to leave the country.
		The killing of five MSF staff - three Europeans and two Afghans - in northwestern Badghis province was the deadliest for any international aid agency since the fall of the Taliban, and brought to more than 30 the number of relief workers killed in the country since March 2003.
		Latifi, the Taliban spokesman, claimed responsibility at the time.
	www.medbroadcast.com /health_news_details_pf.asp?news_id=4473&news_channel_id=1000 (895 words)

	Afghan violence leaves 27 dead
		A Taliban spokesman, Mullah Abdul Hakim Latifi, said the man American forces were seeking was the militia's local commander, Amin Sahib Zada, but he was not in the area.
		"He is quite safe," Latifi told AP by satellite telephone.
		It was not clear who carried out the roadway shooting in Helmand, some 400 kilometers (250 miles) southwest of Kabul.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /en/doc/2004-01/08/content_296714.htm (450 words)

	Explosions in Afghanistan - Aug 29 \| The Agonist
		They said no one had been arrested in connection with the attack, but that one Afghan had been detained Sunday after he was seen loitering outside the Kabul airport and was found to have traces of explosives on his hands.
		Mullah Hakim Latifi, the second purported Taliban spokesman, told news agencies by phone that Taliban forces had "worked for three days to place the bomb" at the site.
		A spokesman for the Taliban, Mullah Abdul Hakim Latifi, warned that more bombings were in store as the nation prepared for its Oct. 9 presidential election.
	www.agonist.org /story/2004/8/29/864/01952 (2888 words)

	Afghan warlord survives suicide bomb attack - Asia, World - The Independent
		Twenty five people were injured, two critically, but General Abdul Rashid Dostum was shaken but unharmed after a bearded man, pretending to be a beggar, detonated explosives strapped to his body.
		A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was an act of revenge for General Dostum's alleged killing of captured Taliban fighters in 2001.
		Mullah Abdul Hakim Latifi said one of its members had mounted the attack to avenge the alleged slaughter.
	www.independent.co.uk /news/world/asia/afghan-warlord-survives-suicide-bomb-attack-487516.html (841 words)

	cbs4.com - Mine Blast Kills Nine Afghan Soldiers
		The 10 soldiers from a border guard unit were aboard a pickup truck when it struck the land mine on a road near Spinboldak, a frontier town in southern Kandahar province, Gen. Abdul Raziq Khan, the unit's commander, told The Associated Press.
		Mullah Abdul Hakim Latifi, a man who regularly claims to speak for the Taliban, said its members detonated the mine by remote control and then opened fire on the stricken soldiers.
		He claimed 11 troops were killed and vowed the hardline militia would continue to attack Afghan and American forces.
	cbs4.com /topstories/Mine.Blast.Kills.2.248406.html (525 words)

	Portsmouth Herald World News: Al-Qaida, Taliban on defensive
		Reached by satellite phone, a Taliban spokesman claimed Taliban fighters already had launched offensives in Uruzgan province and two others, Kandahar and Zabul.
		"We are spreading our operations in all of Afghanistan against U.S. forces," said the spokesman, Mullah Abdul Hakim Latifi.
		The Taliban’s leaders remain in Afghanistan, including Mullah Omar, or in other areas of Pakistan - not in Waziristan, Latifi claimed.
	www.seacoastonline.com /2004news/03262004/world/7201.htm (845 words)

	Steve Quayle News Alerts
		She said there was no evidence she had been kidnapped.
		Abdul Hakim Latifi, another purported spokesman for the Taliban, said the militia was not holding her.
		Khalid Pashtun, spokesman for Kandahar's governor, said Barenowska had not asked officials for advice on security beyond Kandahar city, which is patrolled by American troops.
	www.stevequayle.com /News.alert/04_Unrest/040630.Afghan.militants.html (546 words)

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