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  Osama bin Laden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
By 1980, his old teacher from the university in Jeddah, Abdullah Azzam, had relocated to Peshawar, a major border city of a million people in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan.
Assisted by donations funneled through business and charitable fronts such as Benevolence International, established by his brother-in-law, Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, bin Laden established a new base for mujahideen operations in Khartoum, Sudan to disseminate Islamist philosophy and recruit operatives in Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, and the United States.
He chartered a plane and flew to Kabul before settling in Jalalabad after being invited by leading Afghan Mujahedin figure, Abdul Rasuul Sayyaf.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Osama_bin_Laden   (4618 words)

  
 Afghanistan - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Afghanistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
President Rabbani controlled only ten of the country's 30 provinces and came under pressure from the UN to transfer power to an interim, cross-faction Mujahedin council.
The mountainous province of Takhar in northern Afghanistan was struck by a massive earthquake (6.1 on the Richter scale) in early February 1998.
Days later, the Taliban were accused of massacring 300 civilians in Bamiyan province, after losing and then recapturing the town of Yakowlangin in January.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Afghanistan   (3173 words)

  
 Afghanistan - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
The earthquakes occurred at Samangan Province (March 3) and Baghlan Province (March 25).
In the Meshrano Jirga, one-third of the members are elected by provincial councils for four years, one-third are elected by district councils of each province for three years, and one-third are appointed by the president for five years, of which half must be women.
The two famous statues of Buddha in the Bamiyan Province were destroyed by the Taliban because they were regarded by them as being idolatrous.
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/a/f/g/Afghanistan.html   (2663 words)

  
 Avian Flu - What we need to know: March 2006
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said five swab samples from backyard poultry farms in the capital Kabul and the eastern city of Jalalabad tested positive on Monday for H5, and that tests were under way to discern the virus subtype.
In addition, samples from two villages in the Dayala province in northeastern Iraq are also being tested, said the spokeswoman, adding that the government had dispatched expert teams there to help cull the birds and disinfect the villages.
A teenage girl and his uncle from the northern Iraqi province of Sulaimaniya near the border with Turkey were confirmed dead of the deadly disease last month.
avianflu.typepad.com /avianflu/2006/03/index.html   (8163 words)

  
 Mythology's Myth*ing Links = Eurasia / Central Asia: Afghanistan
The city dominates the entrances to the Laghman and Kunar valleys and is a leading trading center with India and Pakistan.
Jalalabad is a military center and a winter resort.
Present-day Jalalabad was the major city of the ancient Greco-Buddhist center of Gandhara....
www.mythinglinks.org /eurasia~Afghanistan.html   (7154 words)

  
 Afghanistan war: Abdul Haq - Cipro
explanation: Born in 1954 in Juzjian province of northern Afghanistan.
Once he had been a communist general but when Soviets pulled out from Afghanistan in 1989, he betrayed Najibullah's regime and created his own state by occupying the northern region around Mazar-i-Sharif where his ethnic group, Uzbek is in the majority.
explanation: Born in 1940 in Badakhshan province of northeastern Afghanistan.
www.docoja.com /dico/afgtxtg.html   (1410 words)

  
 Cursor Link Archives, November 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
A senior mujahedin commander in Jalalabad says he is 90% sure that bin Laden is holed up in a cave complex in the Tora Bora area of eastern Afghanistan's White Mountains.
Robert Fisk, the only Western journalist reporting from Kandahar province, spoke to a woman escaping the U.S. bombing: "There wasn't much left of my son...when the roof hit him, he was turned to meat and all I could see were bones.
After negotiating the peaceful handover of Jalalabad, bin Laden heads for the hills near Tora Bora, where al-Qaeda is paying locals to fortify its encampment.
www.cursor.org /1101_archive.htm   (6956 words)

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