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	Asiaweek.com
		With Dostam's well-armed faction divided and in disarray, the ultra-radical Taliban may be poised to control the entire nation and the borders of Central Asia.
		Dostam is a peasant's son from neighboring Jowzjan province, who muscled his way up the ranks to command his own battalion.
		But it was the boozing and brawling Dostam who rose fast and high, eventually commanding a division that would become indispensable to the Soviet-backed regime in Kabul.
	www.pathfinder.com /asiaweek/97/0530/nat3.html (694 words)

	Middle East Times
		Dostam, an ethnic Uzbek and former general, was an unsuccessful candidate in last October's presidential elections.
		Dostam's brother Qadir, who was injured in the blast, said that Dostam's bodyguards stepped in front of the bomber and took the brunt of the explosion.
		Dostam retreated to northern Afghanistan and built a fiefdom in the city of Mazar-I-Sharif, after battling with the Taliban for control of the city in 1997 in a brutal campaign marked by massacres of retreating troops.
	www.metimes.com /articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050121-052336-6583r (557 words)

	Afghan warlord Dostam begins disarmament in troubled north
		Dostam said the disarmed men were likely to be sent to Kabul to join the new Afghan army, which currently numbers 5,500 against a planned eventual strength of 70,000.
		Dostam, an Uzbek warlord and former communist general, said he had appointed 200 militiamen to take responsibility for security in the five disarmed districts.
		Dostam, head of the Uzbek Junbish militia, and his rival General Atta Mohammad, chief of the Tajik Jamiat force, have been vying for control of northern Afghanistan along with a third ethnic militia, the Hazaras' Hezb-i Wahdat.
	www.spacewar.com /2003/030804083405.tgmmy16v.html (402 words)

	HARIAN UMUM SUARA MERDEKA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Abdul Rashid Dostam, one of the most powerful warlords in the anti-Taliban opposition, said his forces had ousted the Taliban from Zaare district, 100 kilometers west of Mazar-i-Sharif, capital of Balkh province.
		It was not possible to independently confirm the claims of either side since all of Afghanistan's neighbors have closed their borders at the request of the United States, and nearly all foreign officials, including UN and international aid workers, have left the country.
		The advances by Dostam, who leads a force of minority ethnic Uzbeks, were in an area where the Taliban said they shot down a helicopter on Saturday, after earlier shooting down a pilotless spy plane, but the aircraft had yet to be identified.
	www.suaramerdeka.com /harian/0109/25/eng4.htm (792 words)

	News: Afghanistan, Fresh fighting undermines peace in northern Afghanistan
		Forces loyal to Uzbek strongman Abdul Rashid Dostam and Atta Mohammad, a powerful northern commander, came to blows in the Dar-i-Souf area of Samangan province for the seventh time in recent weeks, said Abdul Saboor, one of Mohammad's commanders.
		Dostam and Mohammad, who jointly control the north in an uneasy alliance which is often undermined by disputes between their supporters, met face-to-face late last month in a bid to avert major conflict in the area.
		Dostam and Mohammad, along with other powerful regional leaders, also recently met with President Hamid Karzai in the Afghan capital where they renewed their pledges to seek peace and support the central government.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/3c91b5a5c8402fd2c1256c7600527e4f (586 words)

	e-Ariana - Todays Afghan News
		"Atta and Dostam could be withdrawn from the north and they'll be given positions in Kabul, that is under consideration by the national security council," the official, who could not be identified, said.
		Dostam, who holds the post of deputy defence minister, also heads the Uzbek-dominated Junbish faction, while Atta heads the seventh military corps and the Tajik-dominated Jamiat-i-Islami faction.
		Atta's spokesman General Abdul Sabor said a delegation of Afghan, British and US officials who travelled to Mazar at the height of the fighting and brokered a ceasefire had decided to transfer the northern strongmen.
	www.e-ariana.com /ariana/eariana.nsf/allPrintDocs/950A36E1295FA2B287256DC600433AFE (383 words)

	Karzai picks warlord for senior Afghan army post
		Dostam, one of the most powerful men in northern Afghanistan, won 10 percent of last October's presidential vote, mostly in northern provinces where he garnered much support from the ethnic Uzbek and Turkmen communities.
		Dostam played a major role in overthrowing the Soviet-backed communist regime of which he himself was part for many years.
		In January Dostam narrowly escaped assassination by a suicide bomber outside a mosque in the northern town of Sheberghan, where he had been saying open-air prayers at a Muslim festival.
	www.infowars.com /articles/world/afghanistan_karzai_picks_warlord.htm (391 words)

	AsiaMedia :: Story, Print Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		On this occasion it is the aides of warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostam who are getting a lesson in the harsh realities of the medium is the message.
		Dostam, a powerful former communist warlord who controls much of northern Afghanistan, has an image problem in Afghanistan where he is known for his role in the civil war of the 1990s in which tens of thousands of people died and which paved the way for the fundamentalist Taliban militia to take power.
		In Dostam's case, his representatives were finally persuaded to choose other photos - one of the general in front of a building site and one in which he is wearing traditional Afghan costume.
	www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /print.asp?parentid=15032 (635 words)

	The Nation
		Rawanyar said the blast occurred shortly after Dostam had finished praying and while he was greeting the faithful outside Ghocha Park Mosque in the northern town of Sheberghan.
		Dostam, an ethnic Uzbek and former general, was an unsuccessful candidate in last October’s presidential election, winning 10 percent of the vote largely among the Uzbek and Turkmen minorities.
		One of Afghanistan’s most feared military strongmen, Dostam recently began disarming his local militia but was allowed to retain a personal retinue of 200 bodyguards.
	www.nation.com.pk /daily/jan-2005/21/index6.php (371 words)

	Top army job for feared Afghan warlord - World - www.smh.com.au
		Dostam, one of the most powerful men in northern Afghanistan, won 10 per cent of last October's presidential vote, mostly in northern provinces where he garnered much support from the ethnic Uzbek and Turkmen communities.
		Dostam played a major role in overthrowing the Soviet-backed communist regime of which he himself was part for many years.
		In January Dostam narrowly escaped assassination by a suicide bomber outside a mosque in the northern town of Sheberghan, where he had been saying open-air prayers at a Muslim festival.
	www.smh.com.au /news/World/Top-army-job-for-feared-Afghan-warlord/2005/03/02/1109700545990.html (442 words)

	Asiaweek.com
		With Dostam's well-armed faction divided and in disarray, the ultra-radical Taliban may be poised to control the entire nation and the borders of Central Asia.
		Dostam is a peasant's son from neighboring Jowzjan province, who muscled his way up the ranks to command his own battalion.
		But it was the boozing and brawling Dostam who rose fast and high, eventually commanding a division that would become indispensable to the Soviet-backed regime in Kabul.
	www.asiaweek.com /asiaweek/97/0530/nat3.html (694 words)

	Afghan News Network {Latest News about Afghanistan} First in Afghan News Worldwide!
		The militias of ethnic Uzbek warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostam and his Tajik rival Mohammed Atta have clashed repeatedly in and around Mazar-i-Sharif since the fall of the Taliban in late 2001.
		Dostam's appointment dismayed human rights groups but political insiders in Kabul said Dostam, who won 10 percent of the vote in the presidential election, was a political force to be reckoned with.
		Dostam has changed sides many times in the past two decades, fighting with the Soviets in the 1980s and later fighting with the mujahedin against Soviet-backed President Najibullah.
	www.afghannews.net /index.php?action=show&type=news&id=2282 (767 words)

	News: Afghanistan, Factional fighting leaves nearly 80 dead and wounded in Afghanistan
		Dostam's deputy Sayed Nurullah said three of his fighters had been killed and six wounded.
		Dostam and Mohammad have been vying for control of northern Afghanistan along with a third ethnic militia, the Hazaras' Hezb-i Wahdat.
		Tensions between Dostam's and Mohammad's forces spiked at the weekend when two of Dostam's commanders were allegedly kidnapped by Atta Mohammad's forces.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/2acc746212d05e07c1256dba0034fd27 (619 words)

	RIC Query - Afghanistan (7 July 2004)
		Dostam, a controversial ethnic Uzbek warlord, currently is the Deputy Defense Minister in Hamid Karzai's interim government (afgha.com undated, TheFreeDictionary.com undated).
		General Abdul Rashid Dostam, "[a]long with General Mohammed Fahim and Ismail Khanâ¦was one of three factional leaders that comprised the Northern Alliance" (TheFreeDictionary.com undated).
		A BBC article reports that General Dostam "is a controversial figure who has often changed sides in Afghanistan's complex web of shifting alliances," and was the leader of the second largest party in the anti-Taleban Northern Alliance" (BBC 25 Sep 2001).
	www.uscis.gov /portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=e159361cfb98d010VgnVCM10000048f3d6a1RCRD&vgnextchannel=d2d1e89390b5d010VgnVCM10000048f3d6a1RCRD (3128 words)

	Afghania Portal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Those candidates, who are thought to include Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostam, ethnic Hazara commander Mohammed Mohaqeq, and Karzai's vice-president Karim Khalili, agreed to have officers from Afghanistan's fledgling national army.
		However the inclusion of other commanders such as Dostam, an ethnic Uzbek who was also part of the Northern Alliance, has the potential to divide any anti-Karzai movement.
		Dostam commands the support of both the Uzbek and Turkmen minorities and is based near Afghanistan's largest northern city Mazar-i-Sharif.
	www.afghania.com /printarticle5965.html (670 words)

	Afghanistan News Headlines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dostam, who helped the US topple the Islamists in 2001 and stood in last Octobers presidential polls, survived the blast during prayers for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha in the northern city of Sheberghan on Thursday.
		The fundamentalist movement is known to blame Dostam for massacring some of its troops after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan three years ago.
		Dostam -- a nickname meaning everyones friend -- has also earned enemies amongst other regional militia commanders by repeatedly switching sides during the Soviet occupation in the 1980s and civil war in the 1990s.
	www.afghanistan.org /news_detail.asp?17636 (408 words)

	Afghan strongman survives assassination attempt. 20/01/2005. ABC News Online
		Afghan strongman Abdul Rashid Dostam has survived an assassination bid in which as a suicide bomber blew himself up, injuring over 20 people.
		Mr Rawanyar says the blast occurred shortly after Gen Dostam had finished praying and while he was greeting the faithful outside Ghocha Park Mosque in the northern town of Sheberghan.
		Gen Dostam, an ethnic Uzbek and former general, was an unsuccessful candidate in last October's presidential election, winning 10 per cent of the vote.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200501/s1285948.htm (255 words)

	Pakistan Times \| Top Story: Brief Profiles of Presidential Candidates in Afghan elections
		He was made vice president and minister of planning in Karzai's first interim government but was sacked as vice president in 2002 and as minister in March this year.
		Sirat had a varied career as a university lecturer, justice minister and attorney general and ministerial advisor prior to Soviet occupation and was the special envoy of Afghanistan's exiled king.
		Rashid studied in Germany and later worked with a Afghan-German refugee body.
	pakistantimes.net /2004/10/08/top10.htm (915 words)

	1997 Human Rights Reports: Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dostam's forces bombed Kabul in January, and Masood's forces continue to bombard Kabul, though probably with less effect.
		Dostam and Malik have an ongoing dispute and Malik suspects Dostam of complicity in the death of his brother, Rasul Pahlawan, in June 1996.
		Dostam and Malik share nominal control of five to six north central provinces, while the Shi'a/Hazara Hezb-i-Wahdat, led by Khalili, controls the Hazarajat to the west of Kabul.
	www.usemb.se /human/human97/afghanis.html (6539 words)

	Minorities At Risk (MAR) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is mostly Hazara and is led by Abdul Karim Khalee (or Khalili) and Abdul Ali Mazari.
		General Dostam / Jambush-i-Milli (National Islamic Front): General Abdul Rashid Dostam is an Uzbek warlord who, in the early 1990s, was the effective ruler of northern Afghanistan.
		Dostam supported the Communist government until March 1992 and, as a consequence, controls a considerable amount of heavy weaponry including tanks and airplanes, thus making his army one of the most powerful in the country.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/afghhaz.htm (2095 words)

	INTRODUCTION Afghanistan Intelligence Agencies
		Cooperating with Jamiat were militants of Sayyaf's Ittehad-i-Islami and, periodically, troops loyal to ethnic Uzbek strongman Abdul Rashid Dostam.
		General Abdul Rashid Dostam, an ethnic Uzbek, controlled several north-central provinces, having driven out his rival Uzbek commander, General Abdul Malik.
		Dostam's forces bombed Kabul in January 1997, and Masood's forces continue to bombard Kabul, though probably with less effect.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/afghan/intro.htm (2439 words)

	ABDUL RASHID DOSTAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He was told by the people that Dostam's guards had entered the block and were looting the property and raping the women."
		A teacher who left Kabul for Pakistan in mid-1994 told Amnesty International that her parents were frightened that she and other women in the family might be raped by members of the warring factions.
		A woman who fled Kabul in January 1994 saw armed guards whom she believed to be members of General Dostam's forces taking away young girls and boys.
	www.afghancriminals.com /dostam.htm (696 words)

	Fighting erupts in Afghanistan -DAWN - Top Stories; 12 April, 2004
		The skirmishes, involving forces of ethnic Uzbek strong man Abdul Rashid Dostam, took place late Saturday in Kod-i-Barq, 20 kilometres south of the main northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.
		Accounts of the fighting varied, with Dostam's deputy Majit Roozi claiming two dead and five injured while blaming the clashes on troops loyal to the Uzbek warlord's regional rival, ethnic Tajik Atta Mohammed.
		Soldiers loyal to Mohammad and Dostam, who have been engaged in a sporadic power struggle in the north since the 2001 ouster of the Taliban regime, have clashed at regular intervals, despite ongoing attempts to disarm militiamen.
	www.dawn.com /2004/04/12/top8.htm (411 words)

	A Pure
		The roots of the Northern Alliance can be traced to the defection of General Abdul Rashid Dostam with his Uzbek militia from Najibullah's side in March 1992 - with this act the decimated People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan's days were numbered.
		The mujahidin entered Kabul and, in mid-April, they circumvented an immediate continuation of the war with a Peshawar alliance headed by the Jamait-i-Islami boss Professor Burhanuddin Rabbani (who is still the recognized head of the country).
		In January 1997, Dostam's forces ruthlessly bombed Kabul and Masood's forces continued to do so, even the day after 9/11 in retaliation for his assassination three days earlier.
	www.zmag.org /forwardpast.htm (1087 words)

	General Mohammad Ismail Khan
		Along with General Mohammed Fahim and ethnic Uzbek warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostam, Ismail Khanwas one of three factional leaders that comprised the Northern Alliance.
		That was the headquarters of General Abdul Zaher Nayebzadah's which was overrun by Ismail Khan's militia on 21 March.
		Abdul Rashid Dostum (who was also deputy defense minister) and Ismail Khan, who had been governor of Herat Province, had been particularly intransigent warlords.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/afghanistan/ismail.htm (1521 words)

	Keesing's Worldwide Online - Hot Topics: Afghanistan - Ahmed Shah Masud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Masud's European visit and the possible return of Dostam led analysts to speculate that the UIFSA planned a large scale summer offensive against the Talibaan.
		The position of Dostam, who was widely regarded as a decisive factor in determining the outcome of the latest conflict, remained unclear.
		Najibullah attempted to flee the country, but was prevented from reaching Kabul airport by troops under the command of Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostam, an Uzbek militia leader previously deployed by the government against Pashtun mujaheddin groups, who had switched alliance to Masud.
	www.keesings.com /hot_topics/afghanistan_masud (2461 words)

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