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	Burhanuddin Rabbani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Burhanuddin Rabbani (برهان الدين رباني) (born 1940), an ethnic Tajik, is a former President of Afghanistan.
		Burhanuddin Rabbani is the leader of Jamiat-e Islami Afghanistan (Islamic Society of Afghanistan).
		Rabbani, son of Muhammed Yousuf, was born in 1940 in Badakhshan, a province of Afghanistan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Burhanuddin_Rabbani (553 words)

	USATODAY.com - Ex-Afghan president Rabbani declares self president (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Rabbani, who was last in Kabul when he was ousted by the Taliban in 1996, arrived in a jeep with flened windows, part of a convoy of 15 vehicles that included representatives of other factions in the Northern Alliance.
		Rabbani has never relinquished his claim to the presidency, though he has acknowledged the international calls for a broad-based government that would include all of Afghanistan's ethnic groups.
		Rabbani invited all Afghan groups except the Taliban to a meeting to discuss formation of a new government, but insisted that it be held in Kabul.
	www.usatoday.com /news/sept11/2001/11/17/rabbani.htm (1316 words)

	A/50/737/Add.1: SG report on Afghanistan (6 Dec) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Rabbani expressed to the Head of the Special Mission his willingness to transfer power, not to his "enemies", but to a mechanism comprising representatives of the warring parties, including his own, as soon as such a body could be agreed upon and constituted.
		Rabbani to declare publicly his willingness to relinquish power to an agreed mechanism, and to give assurances to his opponents, who were sceptical of his real intentions to step down.
		Rabbani announced publicly his willingness to transfer power to an individual or commission and proposed that the warring parties and other neutral personalities should sit together, under United Nations mediation, to agree on a suitable mechanism and the date for the transfer of power.
	www.un.org /documents/ga/docs/50/plenary/a50-737add1.htm (2428 words)

	Burhanuddin Rabbani
		Burhanuddin Rabbani, an ethnic Tajik, was born in 1940 in Badakhshan, a province of Afghanistan.
		In the spring of 1974, police cars came to Kabul University to arrest Rabbani for his pro-Islamic stance, but with the help of his students the police were unable to capture him, and he managed to escape to the country side.
		Rabbani's forces was the first mujahideen group to enter Kabul in 1992 and defeat the Communists once and for all.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/afghanistan/rabbani.htm (479 words)

	Rabbani not optimistic about Bonn talks-World-NEWS-The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		dubai: former afghan president burhanuddin rabbani said tuesday that talks under way in germany to determine afghanistan's political future were unlikely to yield substantial results.
		rabbani, a tajik and the titular head of the u.s.-backed northern alliance, is on an official visit to the united arab emirates, one of only three countries that had diplomatic relations with the taliban.
		rabbani said he was in the emirates to meet with pakistani officials, whom he did not name, and expressed his intention to hold talks with pakistani president pervez musharraf.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow.asp?art_id=769454588 (500 words)

	Afghanland.com Afghanistan Northern Alliance
		The anti-Taliban Northern Alliance is composed of the ousted president, Burhanuddin Rabbani, Commander Ahmad Shah Masoud and their Jamiat-i-Islami forces, and General Abdul Rashid Dostom's Junbish-i-Milli party and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar the former Prime Minister.
		Former President Rabbani claims to be the head of the Government and controls most of the country's embassies abroad and retains Afghanistan's UN seat after the U.N. General Assembly deferred a decision on Afghanistan's credentials.
		Rabbani received nominal support from General Malik (until he was driven out of Afghanistan), from General Dostum, and the Shi'a/Hazara Hezb-i-Wahdat.
	www.afghanland.com /history/northernalliance.html (815 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		Burhanuddin Rabbani, the man ousted as president of Afghanistan five years ago by the Taliban regime, returned to Kabul on 17 November.
		Rabbani's return also is raising suspicions that the deposed president and the Northern Alliance will try to cling to power rather than build an inclusive government.
		Rabbani himself has guardedly supported the involvement of Zahir Shah, who international officials are encouraging to form a Loya Jirga, a grand national council that would choose Afghanistan's new leader.
	www.rferl.org /features/2001/11/19112001085306.asp (1164 words)

	News: Afghanistan, Deposed Afghan president warns of refugee crisis amid fighting
		Rabbani spoke at a meeting with the Tajik government during a stopover in Dushanbe, said Ibraguim Khikmat, the Afghan ambassador to Tajikistan.
		Rabbani warned that refugees fleeing the latest push by the Taliban forces in northeast Afghanistan were experiencing "very difficult" conditions with the approach of winter, said Khikmat.
		Rabbani had stressed that no military solution was possible for the Afghan crisis, and that a political settlement had to be reached, Khikmat added.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/2f8b883aff092d41c12569650037c9b4 (521 words)

	Who is Burhanuddin Rabbani?-World-NEWS-The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		new delhi: burhanuddin rabbani, the former president of islamic state of afghanistan and one of the major figures in the anti-taliban northern alliance, was born in 1940 in badakhshan, a province of afghanistan.
		rabbani's famous mujahideen military commander ahmad shah masood is credited to have built the most sophisticated military-political organization, the supervisory council of the north (scn-shura-yi nazar-i shamali).
		rabbani and masood control the northeastern, largely tajik, portion of afghanistan, including the strategic panjshir valley north of kabul.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow.asp?art_id=1439767493 (329 words)

	CBSNews.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Rabbani was president of the Afghan government that preceded the Taliban.
		After he was driven from Kabul in 1996, he became the nominal head of the group of fighters known as the Northern Alliance and who are mostly minority Tajiks and Uzbeks.
		Although Rabbani still holds Afghanistan's seat at the United Nations, he has little hold on the hearts of Afghans, who accuse him of atrocities while in power.
	www.cbsnews.com /htdocs/afghanistan/whois_rabbani.html (83 words)

	rediff.com US edition: Burhanuddin Rabbani arrives in Kabul
		Amidst conflicting reports of Taleban withdrawal from their stronghold of Kandahar, former Afghanistan President Burhanuddin Rabbani arrived on Saturday in Kabul, four days after it was captured by opposition forces.
		Rabbani arrived in the city in a jeep in a convoy of 15 vehicles accompanied by heavily armed guards.
		Rabbani was forced out of Kabul by the Taleban in 1996 but has remained the UN-recognised head of state.
	www.rediff.com /us/2001/nov/17ny12.htm (150 words)

	USATODAY.com - Afghan rival to Karzai plots strategy for control (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		That Rabbani isn't finished is a potential headache for the United States and other nations trying to persuade Afghanistan's various tribes and factions to live in peace and work together to rebuild the nation.
		Rabbani's continued influence is, ironically, a result of the U.S. support for Northern Alliance forces that drove the Taliban from Afghanistan last fall.
		Rabbani's organizing campaign is designed to take advantage of the peace agreement reached in Bonn that set up the interim government Karzai now heads.
	www.usatoday.com /news/sept11/2002/01/03/rabbani.htm (1078 words)

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		The nominal leader of the Northern Alliance, Burhanuddin Rabbani is still recognized by the United Nations and other western powers as Afghanistan's president.
		He is distrusted by majority Pashtun tribes largely because during his rule, lop-sided politics led to a civil war with Pashtun-led factions that destroyed half of Kabul, killed thousands of civilians and paved the way for the Taliban to sweep into power.
		However, Rabbani has offered an olive branch of sorts to the Pashtuns, saying he has no personal ambitions to head a new government and offering to step down if the majority of delegates wished it.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2001/afghan.bonn/northern.alliance.html (555 words)

	No holding down Afghanistan's Islamic leaders
		In a recent interview, ethnic Tajik Rabbani, who was president of Afghanistan from 1992-96, the first non-Pashtun to rule in 250 years, said that Afghanistan would be plunged into a new crisis if Islamic parties continued to be sidelined in the political reconstruction of the country.
		Rabbani was nominally the political head of the Northern Alliance in its five-year battle against the Taliban and he retained Afghanistan's United Nations seat throughout the Taliban's rule.
		Rabbani insists that he is popular throughout Afghanistan, but experts say that he lacks the political or military muscle to cause much trouble.
	www.atimes.com /c-asia/DD24Ag01.html (975 words)

	Afghanistan - President Burhanuddin Rabbani
		Technically not unemployed (after all he is the official president of Afghanistan) Rabbani is a former theology professor from Kabul and the former official political leader of Afghanistan (although his term has legally expired), but one wonders what he has been leading.
		A highly educated man, Rabbani made an attempt to build a bridge between opposing forces when he named Hekmatyar prime minister in 1993 and again in 1996.
		Apparently Rabbani's biggest skill is the ability to put an entire room of feuding warlords to sleep once his starts in on one of his monotonal marathon speeches.
	www.comebackalive.com /df/dplaces/afghanis/player9.htm (213 words)

	Afghanistan—Who's Who
		He then served as deputy foreign minister in the post-Soviet government of Burhanuddin Rabbani, which was overthrown by the Taliban in 1996.
		A Tajik, Rabbani joined the fight against the Soviets, becoming leader of one of the five major factions of the mujahideen.
		Rabbani (no relation to former President Rabbani) dropped out of Islamic seminary and joined the mujahideen when the Soviets invaded in 1979.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/afghanistan1.html (2049 words)

	CNN.com - Ex-Afghan president returns to Kabul - November 17, 2001
		Rabbani's arrival also could be a sign that the alliance is bypassing previous commitments as Rabbani had agreed not return to Kabul until there was an agreement on a post-Taliban government.
		Rabbani is scheduled to meet with U.N. representative Francis Vendrell in Kabul, Abdullah said.
		Rabbani is still recognized as Afghanistan's president by the United Nations and most countries.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/11/17/rabbani.return (657 words)

	rediff.com: Northern Alliance 'in touch' with Pakistan: Report
		Afghanistan President Burhanuddin Rabbani has said that Pakistan should not consider him an enemy because of his good relations with India, amid reports that some Northern Alliance leaders were in touch with Islamabad to mend fences.
		Rabbani said he and former Afghan premier Gulbudin Hekmatyar were ousted from Afghanistan after they had refused 'taking dictation' from the US, and added that Islamic nations betrayed Taleban, as was done in his case.
		Rabbani said Pakistan had every right to take its own decision, but one thing was clear that anti-Pakistan sentiments were prevailing in Afghanistan.
	www.rediff.com /news/2001/nov/23na.htm (302 words)

	FT.com - Special Reports / Attack on Afghanistan
		Burhanuddin Rabbani is the political leader of the Northern Alliance and controls Afghanistan's seat at the United Nations and most of its embassies around the world.
		Mr Rabbani, an ethnic Tajik, became president of Afghanistan in 1992 but the Islamic state he created was torn apart by civil war.
		He was driven from Kabul in 1996 by the Taliban but has managed to keep the remnants of that government alive with backing from ethnic Tajik militias and former enemies from the civil war under the umbrella of the Northern Alliance.
	specials.ft.com /theresponse/FT3OSQ4E0TC.html (779 words)

	James S. Robbins on Afghanistan & war on National Review Online
		Rabbani surprised many last Sunday by stating that if his troops captured top members of the Taliban or al Qaeda network, including bin Laden, they would not be turned over to the United States until the Afghan government had carried out their own investigation of why bin Laden came to Afghanistan.
		Rabbani said that he intended to cooperate with the United States, "but that was a matter for the future.
		Rabbani has said he will give up power eventually, but has also said the Northern Alliance should be a majority on the transition team.
	www.nationalreview.com /contributors/robbins120401.shtml (1221 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Rabbani has attempted to take center stage in the Alliance since the assassination of his more popular top gun, Ahmad Shah Masood, in September, and he gave no sign he was ready to approve a list for a larger parliament-style council his delegates had faxed back to Kabul.
		Rabbani, a key Northern Alliance leader who was ousted from Kabul by the Taliban in 1996, is still the U.N.-recognized head of state.
		Rabbani, the symbolic president of Afghanistan under the chaotic rule of the resistance groups after the overthrow of the Moscow-backed regime of president Mohammad Najibullah in 1992, is seen to oppose the deal now being thrashed out in Germany.
	www.islamonline.net /english/News/2001-12/02/article2.shtml (1213 words)

	Radio Netherlands Worldwide - Independent thinking, independent voice - English - Afghanistan: Ousted President Rabbani (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Rabbani: "The fighting that has erupted in our country is not a civil war.
		Rabbani: "There are many differences between the policies of the Islamic State of Afghanistan and the Taliban.
		Rabbani: "We are in a position to ask for military assistance because we are the legitimate government of Afghanistan.
	www.radionetherlands.nl /features/humanrights/rabbani001016.html (581 words)

	The Militant - 10/21/96 -- New Reactionary Regime Takes Power In Afghanistan
		Former president Burhanuddin Rabbani along with troops loyal to his regime and hundreds of civilians had fled the day before to Parwan, north of the capital.
		Rabbani's administration had come to power as a result of the defeat of the Moscow-backed regime of Sayid Mohammed Najibullah, which collapsed in 1992 after a sustained offensive by 16 major guerrilla groups armed and financed by Washington and neighboring capitalist regimes.
		He was a Communist." Rabbani is the cleric who was named the head of a six-member provisional council to govern the capital.
	www.themilitant.com /1996/6037/6037_12.html (1569 words)

	A Warlord Speaks Out - NW-0102WTCEXC - MSNBC.com
		Former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani talks to NEWSWEEK about his country’s interim government, his political future—and why he believes Islam is the leading religion in the battle against terrorism
		The main reason for Rabbani’s appeasement: the appointment of members of his Jamiat-e-Islami party to top posts in the defense, foreign and interior ministries.
		Burhanuddin Rabbani: This government was formed on decisions made outside of this country [at the U.N.-sponsored Bonn Conference].
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3067319/site/newsweek (1117 words)

	CNN.com - Rabbani: Power will be shared - November 20, 2001
		KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Burhanuddin Rabbani, president of the Northern Alliance-led government of the Islamic State of Afghanistan, said Tuesday the forces that rolled into the Afghan capital last week are planning to share -- not seize -- power.
		In an interview with CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour, Rabbani said he is prepared to have a broadbased alliance in power, as envisioned by the United Nations.
		Rabbani was not against individual Taliban members who have not committed crimes being part of a broadbased government, but he opposed the Taliban's participation in the government as a group.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/11/20/ret.rabbani.amanpour/index.html (553 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| War \| A push and a shove
		The transfer of power from Northern Alliance (NA) leader Burhanuddin Rabbani to Karzai was scheduled for 22 December, said UN spokesman Ahmed Fawzi.
		Rabbani, who sent Interior Minister Younis Qanooni in his stead, still managed to issue strong opposition to the proposals put forth by even his own delegation.
		But Rabbani's manoeuvrings posed a further obstacle that the NA delegation, and, incidentally, the conference as a whole, had to overcome.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2001/563/7wa1.htm (1357 words)

	EurasiaNet Q & A - Burhanuddin Rabbani Hopeful on Loya Jirga Prospects
		One of the key figures at the Bonn process was Burhanuddin Rabbani, the long-time leader of the Northern Alliance who headed the Mujaheddin government that was ousted from Kabul by the Taliban in 1996.
		Rabbani's influence has waned since Hamid Karzai's interim government was installed in late December.
		Rabbani: At the Bonn Conference, the UN people and I suggested after the victory in Afghanistan we need to have a temporary government.
	www.eurasianet.org /departments/qanda/articles/eav041502.shtml (784 words)

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