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	Afghanistan Abdul Rasul Sayyaf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Abdul Rasul Sayyaf was the last party leader to be recognized by Pakistan.His arrival in Peshawar was delayed until 1980 by imprisonment since themid-1970s under the Daud and Taraki-Amin regimes.
		He was born at Paghman, a townimmediately west of Kabul.
		Sayyaf arrived in Pakistan when foreign supporters were pressuring theparties to unite.
	www.country-studies.com /afghanistan/abdul-rasul-sayyaf.html (162 words)

	Far Outliers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1992-96, Abdul Rasul Sayyaf was a "factional leader who controlled interior ministry, whose soldiers committed atrocities, operated training camps and welcomed Osama bin Laden to Afghanistan from Sudan" under the U.S.-supported Mujahedeen warlord government that drove the Soviets out of Afghanistan.
		But Sayyaf is a vicious man, whose followers have carried out unspeakable atrocities and horrific massacres of Afghanistan's ethnic Hazaras.
		Abdul Rasul Sayyaf inspires violence in others: Abu Sayyaf, a Philippine terrorist organization, was named for him by its founder, Abdurajak Janjalani.
	faroutliers.blogspot.com /2005/10/inspirational-abdul-rasul-sayyaf.html (274 words)

	Afghan Profiles - Ustad Abdul Rasul Sayyaf
		Ustad (Professor) Sayyaf, fluent in Arabic, had a substantial amount of men under his command because he was able to pay them with donations he received from wealthy Arab benefactors.
		Despite Sayyaf's presence in the Northern Alliance, the allied group did not represent a nationwide coalition of Afghanistan's numerous ethnic, religious and linguistic groups.
		In 2003 Sayyaf was elected to be one of the 502 representatives at the Constitutional Loya Jirga in Kabul.
	www.laghman.net /profiles/sayyaf.asp (582 words)

	Afghans pick Karzai rival as chairman in parliament / Election raises fear of increased tension among ethnic groups (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He defeated Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, a religious conservative, by a vote of 122-117, with 9 abstentions.
		Sayyaf, an ally of Karzai, is a leader of the Pashtuns, the country's largest ethnic group.
		Sayyaf, 51, an imposing figure in tall turban and big white beard, was favored by Karzai's administration because he commands a strong following among fellow Pashtuns and has been supportive of the president for the last year.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2005/12/22/MNGGRGBMB61.DTL (676 words)

	Sen. Aquilino Q. Pimentel - Speeches - TREASONOUS HANDLING OF THE ABU SAYYAF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Long before the tourists of Sipadan were kidnapped on April 23 of this year, the Abu Sayyaf had already been blazing a bloody trail of murders, abductions, rapes, mutilations, arsons, and other heinous crimes that is impossible to match in terms of callous cruelty by any armed band of hooligans locally or even internationally.
		Because the Abu Sayyaf was operating on the fringe of the Muslim insurgency in the country, its partisans were enticed by certain officers of the armed forces to serve as informers on the activities of the Muslim insurgents in Southern Mindanao.
		Their mission, most likely, was to get the Abu Sayyaf partisans as their sources of information on the movements of the Muslim insurgents and probably of their allies from other Muslim countries and as friendly pawns in the game of divide and rule as far as the Muslim insurgency is concerned.
	www.nenepimentel.org /speeches/20000802.shtml (2089 words)

	Gulfnews: Rabbani backs Tajik for speaker of Afghan House
		Sayyaf is accused by rights groups of human rights violations in the civil war that followed the end of the 10-year Soviet occupation in 1989.
		Abdul Sayyaf's comrade is former Qanooni ally, Haji Mohammad Mohaqiq, the fierce Hazara leader who heads Hizb-e-Wahdat, with whom Abdul Sayyaf's forces once clashed.
		Like Sayyaf, he is accused of rights abuses during the 1992-96 civil war that killed 50,000 people in Kabul.
	archive.gulfnews.com /articles/05/12/21/10006389.html (409 words)

	Abu Sayyaf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Abu Sayyaf was the last of the seven main Afghan guerilla groups to be formed, and organized late in the war — only about three years before the Russians withdrew.
		Abu Sayyaf, which means “father of the sword” in Arabic, was founded in 1986 by an Afghan professor named Abdul Rasul Abu Sayyaf.
		Abu Sayyaf guerillas now holding American Jeffrey Craig Schilling, whom they charge — and the United States denies — is a CIA agent, are demanding freedom for Youssef and two other Muslims imprisoned in the United States, in exchange for Schilling’s life.
	www.falange.us /abusayya.htm (782 words)

	Foreign Affairs - Afghanistan Unbound - Kathy Gannon
		The assailants were loyal instead to one of many warlords battling for control of the city: Abdul Rasul Sayyaf.
		Sayyaf's men had been fighting for years, first against the Soviet Union, after it invaded Afghanistan in 1979, and then, once the Soviets fled, against other mujahideen groups.
		Sayyaf subsequently agreed to these provisions; just what he asked for in return is unknown.
	www.foreignaffairs.org /20040501faessay83305/kathy-gannon/afghanistan-unbound.html (719 words)

	Afghanistan - Abdul Rasul Sayyaf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Abdul Rasul Sayyaf was the last party leader to be recognized by Pakistan.
		Sayyaf arrived in Pakistan when foreign supporters were pressuring the parties to unite.
		With excellent Arab connections, Sayyaf has been generously funded, but has had no substantial base of support inside Afghanistan.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-109.html (174 words)

	Corpus Christi Caller Times Caller.com - Loyalties and rivalries shift in Afghanistan
		Then there's his deputy prime minister, Abdul Rasul Sayyaf.
		During the nine-year Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, Sayyaf's party got millions in Saudi aid, but the money was cut off when he backed Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War.
		It was Sayyaf's party that attracted most of the so-called Afghan Arabs - Middle Eastern Muslims who came to Afghanistan to fight the Soviets.
	www.caller2.com /2001/september/26/today/national/12727.html (633 words)

	Dark pasts of Afghans are kept quiet - The Boston Globe
		The report, a draft copy of which was provided to the Globe by a Western diplomat, includes allegations about the activities of some of the most prominent personalities of Afghanistan's past and present.
		One is Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, a commander in the mujahideen struggle against Soviet occupation of the 1980s who became embroiled in factional fighting after the Soviets withdrew in the 1990s.
		Sayyaf was elected to the new parliament in 2004 and now leads a pro-Karzai faction there.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/06/16/dark_pasts_of_afghans_are_kept_quiet (1165 words)

	mediabistro.com: Articles: Excerpt: I is for Infidel
		Sayyaf's small brown eyes seemed to glow as he recounted the bombing.
		After the meeting, Sayyaf returned to Kabul to resume his role in the mujahedeen-led government of Afghanistan, a government that owed its existence to the support it had received from America.
		Sayyaf's men had been among those who had welcomed bin Laden to Afghanistan in 1996, along with others from that mujahedeen government who had also been returned to power by the United States in 2001.
	mediabistro.com /articles/cache/a8159.asp (2370 words)

	:: Libertythink :: Encouraging Cognitive Liberty in an Age of Statist Propaganda ::
		The Abu Sayyaf, which has been linked by Washington and Manila to the al-Qaeda terror network, kidnapped Christians and foreigners in Mindanao for a decade, sometimes beheading their captives if ransom is not paid.
		The Abu Sayyaf, Cooley said, was the last of the seven Afghan guerrilla groups to be organized late in the war -- in 1986 or three years before the Soviets withdrew.
		Professor Sayyaf, chief of the Ittehad-i-Islami Afghanistan, which was a part of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, was very close to Saudi Arabia, which bankrolled his jihadi training camp in the garb of a university.
	www.libertythink.com /2004/04/us-pays-bounty-for-arrest-of-sayyaf.html (616 words)

	Abu Sayyaf oder Abu Sayyaf Group
		In Afghanistan soll er sich seine Sporen als furchtloser Kämpfer verdient haben, was ihm später unter seiner - vorwiegend jugendlichen - Gefolgschaft in Basilan Hochachtung einbrachte: Ein Kontrast zur kooptierten MNLF-Führung unter Misuari.
		Edwin Angeles, a leader of the Abu Sayaff in Basilan, told me after the elections of 1995, that it was the Abu Sayaff that was responsible for the raid and the razing down of the town of Ipil, Zamboanga del Sur in early 1995.
		Informanten: "Because the Abu Sayyaf was operating on the fringe of the Muslim insurgency in the country, its partisans were enticed by certain officers of the armed forces to serve as informers on the activities of the Muslim insurgents in Southern Mindanao.
	adf-berlin.de /html_docs/organisationen/abu_sayyaf.php (3159 words)

	AJP - Advocacy
		Shah was widely known to be a commander under Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, the leader of a militia that human rights groups say was involved in mass rape and the disappearance of hundreds of people.
		I have also interviewed women who describe in detail the actions of Sayyaf's troops in the civil war: one saw her small son die while militia members raped her.
		Shortly after the interim government was established in December 2001, Sayyaf leaned on Karzai to appoint as Supreme Court chief justice Mawlavi Fazl Hadi Shinwari, an extremely conservative former head of a religious school in Pakistan.
	www.afghanistanjusticeproject.org /advocacy.htm (1653 words)

	Kabul Reconstructions
		There were calls from the convention floor for Joya to "repent" and she subsequently had to be placed under UN protection.
		The current draft of the constitution, which could be approved as soon as Friday, would give the president the power to rule by administrative decree and to appoint judges and governors, with little legislative oversight.
		Sayyaf defended Karzai, in starkly Islamic terms, as the country's "emir." Convention chairman Sibghatullah Mujaddedi seconded the theme, telling the rebelling delegates that as "ululamr,'' or emir, Karzai had a right to appoint his own delegates.
	www.kabul-reconstructions.net /index.php?id=272 (2509 words)

	Abdul Rasul Sayyaf Details, Meaning Abdul Rasul Sayyaf Article and Explanation Guide
		Abdul Rasul Sayyaf is a political leader in Afghanistan.
		He is the head of the Islamic Union for the Liberation of Afghanistan, which was allied with the United Front in its war against the governing Taliban.
		Sayyaf was commander of a militia that fought against Soviet occupying forces in Afghanistan during the 1980s.
	www.e-paranoids.com /a/ab/abdul_rasul_sayyaf.html (206 words)

	RMS-GS Translations
		Till 1993 Abu Sayyaf was an essential factor of distabilization in the area of the Southern Philippines.
		Edwin Angeles, a former leader of the Abu Sayaff in Basilan, told in public after the elections of 1995, that it was the Abu Sayaff Group that was responsible for the raid and the razing down of the town of Ipil in Zamboanga del Sur in early 1995.
		Informers: Because the Abu Sayyaf was operating on the fringe of the Muslim insurgency in the country, its partisans were enticed by certain officers of the armed forces to serve as informers on the activities of the Muslim insurgents in Southern Mindanao.
	www.rms-gs.de /phileng/history/abu.html (4448 words)

	Abdul Rab Rasul Sayyaf - Afghanan Dot Net
		A Kharotay Ghilzay Pashtun from the district of Paghman, Abd al-Rab Rasul Sayyaf obtained a B.A. from the College of Theology in Kabul and an M.A. from the University of al-Azhar in Cairo.
		After release from prison he fled to Peshawar, where he was chosen as “a non-partisan independent to help unify the alliance formed in 1980” under the name the Islamic Union for the Liberation of Afghanistan (Klass, Afghanistan, 401).
		An eloquent speaker in Arabic, Sayyaf invoked the name of jehad to obtain contributions from rich individuals, particularly Wahhabis, in the Arab world.
	www.afghanan.net /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=69 (229 words)

	Warlords in Afghan Vote Concerns Groups (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Twenty-one other candidates were disqualified Monday for allegedly having continued ties with militias, but rights activists fear the presence of Sayyaf and others on the ballot means the key step toward democracy may be undermined by the very men it is trying to marginalize.
		Sayyaf was a powerful leader of guerrillas who helped drive out a Soviet occupation army in the 1980s, and his militia, Ittihad-e Islami, then was heavily involved in the 1990s civil war.
		Sayyaf “is directly implicated in the abductions and the indiscriminate and intentional targeting of civilians,” a Human Rights Watch report charged in July.
	www.sacunion.com /pages/world/articles/warlords_in_afghan_vote_concerns_groups (758 words)

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		The principal Shi'a party in Afghanistan with support mainly among the Hazara ethnic community, Hizb-i Wahdat was originally formed by Abdul Ali Mazari in order to unite eight Shi'a parties in the run-up to the anticipated collapse of the communist government.
		Its founder and principal leader was Abdul Rashid Dostum, who rose from security guard to leader of Najibullah's most powerful militia.
		The killings followed Malik's withdrawal from a brief alliance with the Taliban and the capture of the Taliban forces who were trapped in the city.
	images.indymedia.org /imc/calgary/human_righ.txt (2527 words)

	Abu Sayyaf: Terrorists or Low-life Bandits? - NAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Abu Sayyaf ("Bearer of the Sword") was formed in 1992 by Abdurajak Janjalani, a Filipino Muslim who went to Afghanistan in 1988 to fight as a mujahedin (holy warrior) against the Soviet invaders.
		According to the Christian Science Monitor, the Abu Sayyaf evolved into a "self-funding and self-reliant criminal organization" with radically different methods, means, and motivations from al Qaeda.
		President GMA was the first head of state in Southeast Asia to proclaim her unequivocal support for the U.S. This support was reciprocated by a grateful President Bush, who lavished U.S. military aid and economic assistance to the Philippines when President Macapagal-Arroyo visited the White House in November 2001.
	news.ncmonline.com /news/view_article.html?article_id=740 (1073 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Middle East / Anger mars Afghan council
		It is also a powder keg of factionalism and a forum to air the grievances of a nation still beset by Taliban insurgents and controlled by warlords.
		The council's morning session began with fireworks after a scathing speech by Malalai Joya, a female delegate from western Farah province, who decried the positions of influence given to faction leaders such as former president Burhanuddin Rabbani and Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, a deeply conservative Islamist.
		Rabbani and Sayyaf were both named to head important subcommittees at the jirga.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2003/12/18/anger_mars_afghan_council (713 words)

	Concern that Jihad Chieftains Will Set Political Agenda
		The five are Burhanuddin Rabbani, the head of the powerful Jamiat-Islami party and former Afghan president; Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, the leader of Ittihad-e-Islami; Ahmad Nabi Mohammadi, a leading figure in Harakat-e-Inqilab-Islami; Ustad Farid, a former commander in Gulbuddin
		But Abdul Rasul Sayyaf had objected, saying delegates should be split in a planned way so as to achieve an equal distribution of professional expertise, provincial origin, gender and other criteria.
		As well as an elected head, each of the 10 groups has two secretaries, one chosen from among the 50 members of the group and another second from the Constitutional Commission.
	www.peacewomen.org /news/Afghanistan/Dec03/concern.html (790 words)

	RAWA.ORG: UN details atrocities committed over 23 years of conflict in Afghanistan
		"Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, a current U.S. ally, was among the mujahedeen leaders in power in Afghanistan- the ones who welcomed Osama bin Laden to Afghanistan in 1996 from Sudan, where he had been forced to leave under U.S. pressure.
		Sayyaf, whose men carried out brutal atrocities during the mujahedeen’s rule, was a close ally of Ahmed Shah Massoud, on the rights in this photograph, whose men also carried out brutal acts."
		Debate over the role of former warlords has grown more heated since anti-foreigner riots rocked Kabul two weeks ago, casting clouds that days after the riots President Hamid Karzai appointed 13 former commanders with links to drugs smuggling, organized crime and illegal militias to senior positions in the police force.
	www.rawa.org /un-sayyaf.htm (577 words)

	International Regional Security Agency
		It was in the camps of the Saudi-financed Afghan mujahidin leader Abdul Rasul Sayyaf that they developed jihadist fervor, international contacts, and deadly skills.
		Sayyaf repeatedly told the non-Afghan recruits that they should not go to the front lines, that it was more important for them to return to their own countries, well trained for jihad, than to die in Afghanistan.
		In the Sayyaf camp he was known as a particularly demanding trainer.
	www.irs-agency.us /JI.htm (6814 words)

	OpinionJournal - Featured Article
		For example, Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, a power-broker in Kabul now aligned to the U.S.-led coalition, requested and received Afghan passports for more than 600 Arabs in 1993-94, while he was a faction leader in the pre-Taliban government.
		Sayyaf keeps was made all too clear at a recent press conference, where Ahmed Shah Ahmedzai, a close ally and former lieutenant in Mr.
		At that press conference, Mawlawi Mufleh, a radical cleric, denounced the presence of U.S. troops in the country and called for the establishment of an Islamic theocracy stretching from Afghanistan to Morocco.
	www.opinionjournal.com /editorial/feature.html?id=110005438 (1280 words)

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