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	Gul Agha Sherzai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gul Agha Sherzai was the governor of Kandahar province, Afghanistan from December 2001 to August 16, 2003.
		Sherzai took power in the province at the end of 2001 when he surged into the area with his private army and took control of government offices.
		Sherzai then became a federal minister of urban affairs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gul_Agha_Sherzai (111 words)

	Gul Agha Sherzai
		Sherzai was the Pashtun governor of Kandahar province, Afghanistan from December 2001 to August 16, 2003.
		Sherzai's officials were notorious for bribery, extortion and widespread theft.
		Sherzai has consistently supported the interim administration of Hamid Karzai and is likely to back him in his bid to become the new President of Afghanistan in upcoming national elections.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/afghanistan/sherzai.htm (571 words)

	Kandahar on Brink of Chaos as Warlords Ready for Battle
		According to Pashtun tribal sources in Quetta in neighboring Pakistan, commanders loyal to Gul Agha Sherzai, the former governor of Kandahar, who is angry that the city has been handed over to his bitter rival, Mullah Naqib Ullah, has been recruiting men in Pakistan to join his forces.
		Gul Agha has a house in Quetta, home to thousands of refugees who have fled Afghanistan's two decades of conflict.
		Until Gul Agha is 'removed', they say, there cannot be a solution.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines01/1209-04.htm (931 words)

	The Indian Express : International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Gul Agha Sherzai, a former Mujahideen who ran the city before the Taliban took over in 1994, was in control of Governor House and Shahar Wali, or city hall, they said.
		Gul Agha fighters were creating unrest in the city because their leader had been denied a clear role in the post-Taliban setup, he added.
		Khalid Pashtoon, a spokesman for Gul Agha, told Reuters by satellite telephone from Kandahar on Saturday tribal leaders had formed a shura, or council, to try to resolve their differences.
	www.indianexpress.com /ie20011209/int1.html (598 words)

	Gul Agha rules and forbidden city opens its gates
		Yesterday the mansion of the new governor, Gul Agha Sherzai, was thronged with western reporters who were greeted by the tribal elders, who sat in the main hall fine-tuning the negotiations about who will run the city.
		If there are still details to be decided about who does actually run the city, the answer is emphatically Gul Agha, who was driven from the city in 1994 with other warlords by the Taliban in their first major victory.
		Yesterday evening, as we drove the 90-odd miles to Kandahar, it was only Gul Agha's men who patrolled the road in their pick-ups, flying his pennant from improvised flag poles and armed with rocket launchers and assault rifles.
	www.buzzle.com /editorials/12-12-2001-8591.asp (764 words)

	Karzai survives assassination attempt - smh.com.au
		The Kandahar governor, Gul Agha Sherzai, was wounded in the attack, and witnesses saw him bleeding from the neck.
		The attacks in Kandahar and Kabul came less than a week before the September 11 anniversary, and at a time when Afghanistan was remembering northern alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massood, killed on September 9 last year in an assassination blamed on Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terror network.
		Sherzai is being treated at the hospital at the US air base in Kandahar, said Captain Christa D'Andrea, a US spokesman at Bagram air base, the US military headquarters in Afghanistan.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/09/06/1031115916594.html (501 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Asia / Afghan opium farmers aim to protect crop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		On Thursday, Kandahar Gov. Gul Agha Sherzai said crisis talks with officials and elders from Maywand, the area 50 miles west of Kandahar city where the clash took place, had cleared the way for eradication to resume in the next few days.
		But others who had accompanied them to the city said they would be ruined if they lost their crops and claimed they had seen no sign of government aid promised to soften the blow.
		Sherzai told reporters Thursday that officials had placated the Maywand elders by reassuring them they had been singled out in the eradication campaign and promising to deliver aid projects in their villages.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2005/04/14/afghan_opium_farmers_aim_to_protect_crop (663 words)

	JS Online: Southern Afghan Leaders to Gather
		Sherzai called the meeting also to discuss his proposal to create a 500-man rapid reaction force, drawing on fighters from the six southern provinces, and a 3,000-man border control force.
		Sherzai's plans, outlined to The Associated Press on Friday, were partly in response to a July 1 U.S. air strike in the Afghan province of Uruzgan that, the national government said, killed 48 civilians and injured 117.
		Sherzai and the governors of five other provinces - Helmand, Uruzgan, Farah, Zabul and Nimroz - were invited to the meeting.
	www.jsonline.com /news/attack/ap/jul02/ap-afghanistan071502.asp?format=print (654 words)

	GN Online: Kabul arrests top official of ousted Taliban (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The man, a brother and aide of former Taliban defence minister Mullah Obaidullah, was seized in a house in Kandahar city, said governor Gul Agha Sherzai.
		Sherzai said three people had been arrested in connection with a bomb attack on a mosque in Kandahar last month that wounded about 12 people.
		Sherzai said 17 other people had been detained recently on suspicion of involvement in other attacks.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=92310 (467 words)

	Observer \| Kandahar on brink of chaos as warlords ready for battle
		According to Pashtun tribal sources in Quetta in neighbouring Pakistan, commanders loyal to Gul Agha Sherzai, the former governor of Kandahar, who is angry that the city has been handed over to his bitter rival, Mullah Naqib Ullah, has been recruiting men in Pakistan to join his forces.
		Gul Agha has a house in Quetta, home to thousands of refugees who have fled Afghanistan's two decades of conflict.
		Pashtun sources in Quetta allied to Hamid Karzai told The Observer the real problem was Gul Agha, who they claim has enjoyed the support of the Pakistani intelligence agencies.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4316268-102275,00.html (778 words)

	CNN.com - Taliban blamed in Karzai attack - September 7, 2002
		Sherzai, who was wounded in Thursday's attack, told CNN on Saturday he had learned the gunman -- named as Abdur Rehman -- was a well-known Taliban activist.
		Rehman, who was shot dead in the aftermath of the assassination attempt, had recently been recruited for security detail at Sherzai's palace, where the attempt on Karzai's life took place.
		Sherzai was treated for a neck wound caused by a bullet.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/central/09/07/afghan.karzai (486 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		He said the council included Hamid Karzai, appointed to lead Afghanistan's interim government from December 22, Gul Agha and Mullah Naqibullah, who accepted the Taliban surrender on Friday.
		Before entering the city, Pashtoon told Reuters on Friday that Karzai had upset Gul Agha, a Sherzai, because he had not included other factions in negotiations with the Taliban.
		Gul Agha's main complaint was that the city would be handed over to Mullah Naqibullah, a former Mujahideen and Kandahar military commander.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2001/12/09/wor03.html (647 words)

	[ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
		Kandahar Province Governor Gul Agha Sherzai told journalists in Kandahar city on 8 March that foreigners were behind the demonstrations that took place in the city on 7 March (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 7 and 8 March), the Kabul daily "Cheragh" reported.
		Sherzai described the protests as an organized attack on government officials in the province and blamed "foreigners," naming the Taliban and Jaysh al-Muslimin for instigating the upheaval.
		Sherzai, however, told journalists that four armed members of Jaysh al-Muslimin have been arrested in connection with the protests.
	www.rferl.org /newsline/2005/03/6-SWA/swa-100305.asp?po=y (1716 words)

	IRVAJ English - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The rejection Wednesday effectively sinks the proposal of Kandahar Gov. Gul Agha Sherzai, the most powerful of six provincial governors in Afghanistan's ethnic Pashtun-dominated south, to require the Americans to seek permission before striking suspected al-Qaida and Taliban positions in their region.
		Sherzai last week called a meeting of six southern governors to discuss his proposals.
		"We told (Sherzai) that we are against interfering with the Americans doing their job," said Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his special envoy to Kandahar, the most important city in the south.
	www.iranvajahan.net /cgi-bin/news_en.pl?l=en&y=2002&m=7&d=18&a=24 (449 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Afghan President Survives an Assassination Attempt
		The attack occurred as the convoy carrying Karzai and Kandahar Gov. Gul Agha Sherzai were leaving the governor's mansion.
		Sherzai was wounded, and witnesses saw him bleeding from the neck, but a U.S. military official said the governor's injuries were not life threatening.
		Sherzai, the injured governor, was being treated at the hospital at the U.S. air base in Kandahar, said Maj. Teri Oman, a base spokesman.
	www.truthout.org /docs_02/09.06E.karzai.bomb.htm (837 words)

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		Abdul Raziq Sherzai, commander of the local Afghan forces, said 24 of his men were with the Canadians that night and they have not returned because they feel there is a danger of unexploded materials.
		Sherzai, who is a brother of warlord-turned-Kandahar Governor Gul Agha Sherzai.
		Sherzai nor Canadian military officials would divulge any details about the incident, saying they prefer to wait until separate Canadian and U.S. military investigations run their courses.
	www.theglobeandmail.com /servlet/GIS.Servlets.ArticleNews/relatedstories/gam/20020423/UKANDN (637 words)

	Weapons SMGs (en) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Witnesses reported hearing dozens of shots in an exchange that left the gunman and one of the president's bodyguards dead and Kandahar Gov. Gul Agha Sherzai and a U.S. Special Forces soldier lightly wounded.
		Sherzai, a member of the ethnic Pashtun tribe and a supporter of the Karzai government, was wounded by a bullet that grazed his neck.
		Sherzai was treated and released at a medical facility at the Kandahar Air Base.
	www.levelrating.com /weapons/149.aspx (714 words)

	5000 Man Taliban Army Rises Again To Face US
		Tensions between Mr Sherzai and Mr Khan in Herat remain extremely high and are causing grave concern to the Americans.
		Mr Sherzai,s commanders, and US Intelligence, have accused Iran of funnelling cash and arms to Mr Khan and his allies to stir up opposition to the new interim administration of Hamid Karzai in Kabul, and to the US presence in the region.
		Mr Khan is accused of persecuting Pashtuns in Herat, with reports from refugees leaving the area of Pashtuns being robbed of trucks, jailed and killed.
	www.rense.com /general19/rise.htm (802 words)

	HARIAN UMUM SUARA MERDEKA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The six men were armed when they were picked up outside the residence of Kandahar governor Gul Agha Sherzai after two gunmen opened fire on Karzai's vehicle, the official said.
		Sherzai, who had been sitting by Karzai, was slightly hurt.
		Mohammad Anwar, Kandahar's deputy police chief, identified the gunman as a soldier from the Kajaki area of the southern province of Helmand — a former Taliban stronghold.
	www.suaramerdeka.com /harian/0209/09/eng1.htm (661 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation > America's War on Terror -- U.S. official: America regrets civilian Afghan ...
		In response to the civilian deaths, the governor of Kandahar province, Gul Agha Sherzai, demanded that U.S. troops seek local permission before striking at suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban units in the south.
		Sherzai also wants a 500-man rapid reaction force to hunt down Taliban and al-Qaeda fugitives and a 3,000-strong unit to patrol part of the borders with Pakistan and Iran.
		Sherzai's proposals were unlikely to succeed without the support of those absent officials, Karzai said.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/terror/20020715-0506-afghan-us.html (543 words)

	Gul Agha Sherzai -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Gul Agha Sherzai -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Gul Agha Sherzai was the governor of (Click link for more info and facts about Kandahar province) Kandahar province, (A mountainous landlocked country in central Asia; bordered by Iran to the west and Russia to the north and Pakistan to the east and south) Afghanistan from December 2001 to August 16, 2003.
		His reign as governor ended in August 2003 when President (Click link for more info and facts about Hamid Karzai) Hamid Karzai decreed that officials could no longer hold both military and civil posts.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gu/gul_agha_sherzai.htm (131 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
		At Kandahar airport, Gul Agha’s spokesman said 250 to 300 of Bin Laden’s mainly Arab fighters were refusing to surrender.
		Before entering the city, Pashtoon said yesterday that Karzai had upset Gul Agha, a Sherzai, because he had not included other factions in negotiations with the Taliban.
		Taliban leader Mullah Omar was captured on the night of Friday and is near Kandahar in the custody of warlord Khalid Pashtoon who is sympathetic to the militia.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2001/20011209/main2.htm (1318 words)

	Afghan-Mosque-Blast, 2nd Writethru Bgt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Parts of the bomber's body were found and Kandahar Gov. Gul Agha Sherzai said he belonged to Osama bin Laden's terrorist network.
		While Sherzai put the casualty toll at 20 dead and 42 wounded, Kandahar Hospital director Mohammed Hashim Alokozai said 72 were injured, four gravely.
		In a second attack Wednesday, a bomb exploded on a bridge west of Kandahar as a group of Afghan explosives experts working on a Japanese-funded demining project were driving over it, killing two of them and wounding five, said Patrick Fruchet, spokesman for the UN Mine Action Centre for Afghanistan.
	www.cbc.ca /cp/world/050601/w060154.html (653 words)

	Jirga resolves stand-off: Gul Agha named Kandahar governor -DAWN - Top Stories; December 10, 2001
		The jirga, which was attended by all the important commanders and elders of different tribes, decided that Gul Agha would remain the Governor of Kandahar till a stable government is established in Kabul, Hamid Karzai told Dawn by telephone from Kandahar.
		In an interview with the BBC, Hamid Karzai said the decision was taken at a meeting of tribal elders and ulema held at the house of Mulla Omar in Kandahar.
		He said Gul Agha would be responsible for general administration and the law and order of Kandahar and Mulla Naqibullah had pledged to extend full cooperation to the new administration.
	www.dawn.com /2001/12/10/top1.htm (625 words)

	GN Online: Karzai to disarm Kandahar factions
		The BBC said there were reports of some gunfire in the city yesterday and that the weekend agreement may be in doubt.
		Tribal leaders decided to appoint Gul Agha Sherzai, the former Mujahideen governor of Kandahar who swiftly installed himself in Governor House on Friday, as the city's interim leader.
		Qayyum, an aide to Gul Agha, told Reuters in the Pakistan's frontier city of Quetta that the situation in Kandahar was steadily improving.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=35077 (457 words)

	CreadersNET -- News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		U.S. bombers kept up relentless raids around southern Kandahar and struck at targets in eastern Afghanistan, where Osama bin Laden is suspected of being holed up in a mountain lair, the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) said.
		Karzai said there had been heavy clashes between Pashtun tribesmen loyal to Gul Agha and bin Laden's mainly Arab fighters at Kandahar airport.
		Gul Agha's men tried to enter the airport itself, but they could not," he said.
	www.creadersnet.com /newsViewer.php?idx=88708 (1010 words)

	JS Online: Afghan Governors Stall Talks
		Kandahar Gov. Gul Agha Sherzai had said the plan would be endorsed by six provincial governors, who would also organize armed forces independent of the central government to patrol the borders and hunt down Taliban and al-Qaida fugitives.
		Sherzai had proposed that U.S. troops get permission before staging military operations in south-central Afghanistan.
		Sherzai's proposals, if adopted, would bolster the power of the ethnic Pashtun leadership in the south, the homeland of the ousted Taliban regime.
	jsonline.com /news/attack/ap/jul02/ap-afghan-governor071602.asp?... (370 words)

	CNN.com - In the line of fire - September 9, 2002
		Karzai was on his way out of the compound of Gul Agha Sherzai, Kandahar's provincial governor, who sat beside him in the car, when he was approached by an Afghan youth hoping to meet the President.
		As he did so, the gunman, Abdul Rahman, 22, who was part of Sherzai's security detail, raised his weapon and pumped several rounds into the car.
		After the shooting, police and military officers in Kandahar detained 17 Rahman associates for questioning, according to Khalid Pashtoon, a spokesman for Sherzai.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/ALLPOLITICS/09/09/time.line.of.fire (921 words)

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