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  Mohammad Rabbani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mullah Mohammad Rabbani (1955/1956 - April 21, 2001) was one of the main founders of the Taliban movement.
While Rabbani and the ruling council constitute the public face of Afghanistan, the important decisions were made by Mullah Mohammed Omar, who resides in the southern city of Kandahar.
Rabbani's body was repatriated to the southern Afghan city of Kandahar by a UN plane, permitted to operate on humanitarian grounds despite the air embargo against the Taliban Movement.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mohammad_Rabbani   (907 words)

  
 Mullah Mohammad Rabbani
The body of Rabbani, the deputy leader of the ruling Taliban, was flown back to Afghanistan after he died on April 16, 2001 in a Pakistani hospital.
Mohammad Rabbani was the deputy leader of the Taliban movement in Afghanistan.
Rabbani was accused of ordering the execution of the former Communist president, Dr Najibullah, who had taken refuge in a United Nations compound ­ in revenge, it was said for the murder of several of Rabbani''s relatives by the secret police when Najibullah had been its director.
www.angelfire.com /home/mullah2   (920 words)

  
 Mullah Rabbani   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Mr Rabbani, 45, was the second most powerful Taleban leader after the supreme commander, Mullah Mohammad Omar, and head of the governing council of ministers.
Mullah Rabbani was believed to have ordered the execution of former Afghan President Najibullah, after the Taleban takeover.
Mr Rabbani is to be buried in Kandahar, the headquarters of the Taleban regime.
www.afghanan.net /biographies/mullahrabbani.htm   (186 words)

  
 Mohammad Najibullah - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Ahmed Shah Massoud, Commander-in-chief of President's Burhanuddin Rabbani Army, sent one of his senior Generals to ask him to leave with the retreating government troops, promising safe passage to the north, but Najibullah refused.
Mullah Mohammad Rabbani, designated Head of the Supreme Council in Kabul, proclaimed that Najibullah had being sentenced to death by the Taliban because he was a communist and a murderer.
Mohammad Najibullah, Early years, Political career, President of the Republic (November 1986 - April 1992), Soviet withdrawal and Civil War, Fall of Kabul and assassination, See also, Executed presidents, 1947 births, 1996 deaths, Afghan heads of state and Firearm deaths.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Mohammad_Najibullah   (1650 words)

  
 CNN.com - Afghan Taleban's deputy leader dies - April 16, 2001
Rabbani was among the first wave of Taleban who swept into Kabul in 1996, driving warring Islamic factions led by former defense chief Ahmed Shah Massood and President Burhanuddin Rabbani from the capital.
Rabbani was a strong advocate of the hardline Islamic rule followed by the Taleban.
Rabbani is to be buried in southern Kandahar, the headquarters of the Taleban, who espouse a hardline brand of Islam.
archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/04/16/afghan.taliban   (361 words)

  
 Gorbat Online
Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan (1909-1978), cousin and brother-in-law of King Zahir, president of the Republic from 17 Jul 1973 to 27 Apr 1978; previously, royal Prime Minister from 7 Sep 1953 to 10 Mar 1963; overthrown and assassinated in the coup ("Saur Revolution") staged by the military and the Communist Party on 27 Apr 1978.
Mullah Mohammad Omar Akhond (1959/1962?-), spiritual and political leader of the Taliban movement (f.
Mullah Mohammad Rabbani Akhund (1956/1957-2001), reportedly the late second-ranking person of the Taliban movement as deputy head of the Supreme Council (or Shura) installed in Kandahar in 1994 and since 26 Sep 1996 head of the Shura installed in Kabul, which acted as a Provisional Government.
www.gorbat.org /plead/faceson.html   (873 words)

  
 Afghanistan - Printer-friendly - ninemsn Encarta
Hekmatyar and Rabbani signed a military agreement in March, to unite against the Taliban, and in May they both signed a peace agreement and pledged the creation of an Islamic state.
President Rabbani reappointed his former adversary Hekmatyar as prime minister in June and government appointments were made in July.
In April 2001 the deputy leader of the Taliban, Mullah Mohammad Rabbani, died in hospital in Pakistan.
au.encarta.msn.com /text_761569370___31/Afghanistan.html   (4246 words)

  
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The Rabbani and his allies even do not have swayed over 10% of the territory because it is divided among the different armed factions of the so-called northern alliance.
In contrast, the Rabbani administration, which is made up of divisive elements, have formed a fragile alliance among them, characterized by different leaderships and diverse spheres of control.
Actually Mullah Mohammad Ghous was not under their detention but was given refuge by local people in Mazar-e-Sharif who safely escorted him to Kunduz to proceed to Kabul.
www.911.0catch.com /taleban.com2.html   (4377 words)

  
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Mullah Mohammad Rabbani, Chairman of the Ruling Council, Head of the Council of Ministers; 2.
Mullah Dost Mohammad, Governor of Ghazni Province; 94.
Mullah Manan Nyazi, Governor of Kabul Province; 99.
cryptome.sabotage.org /bpm102402.txt   (2981 words)

  
 Islam Online- News Section   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
A founding member of the militia, Rabbani was considered to be among the more moderate elements of its extremely conservative leadership although he had been relatively inactive in recent years.
Rabbani was an important commander with the Hizb-i-Islami (Khalis) faction during the 1979-89 jihad against the Soviets.
Rabbani's medical visits to Pakistan and the Middle East had become more frequent in recent months, but the Taliban denied he was seriously sick in August when he left Kabul on one of his last medical check-ups.
www.islamonline.net /english/news/2001-04/16/article14.shtml   (517 words)

  
 Taliban Timeline
The Taliban, under the leadership of Mullah Muhammad Omar, seize control of Kabul and implement a strict interpretation of Islamic law.
Afghan leaders represent 4 factions: the Northern Alliance; the "Rome Group," representing former Afghan King Mohammad Zahir Shah; the "Peshawar Group," representing Afghan refugees in Pakistan; and the "Cyprus Group," representing an Iranian-backed group of Afghan exiles.
Mullah Omar reportedly tells the remaining Taliban forces to "fight to the death." Meanwhile, the Northern Alliance agrees to the presence of international peacekeeping forces.
www.infoplease.com /spot/taliban-time.html   (1908 words)

  
 The Hindu : Taliban seeks proof against Osama
Mullah Rabbani, who is the chairman of the Taliban Council of Ministers, reiterated that Osama was a `guest' of the Islamic Emirate, adding that the militia did not believe that he was involved in the August 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa.
Rabbani repeated that if any country had any `evidence' against Osama, it should be presented to the Taliban Supreme Court, a proposal which has repeatedly been made by the Taliban leadership.
The Taliban, Mullah Rabbani maintained, was opposed to all forms of terrorism - both inside Afghanistan and from Afghanistan.
www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/02/02/stories/01020005.htm   (328 words)

  
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The Pakistani delegation met with Professor Rabbani in Dushanbe and with Mullah Omar's close advisers, Mullah Abdul Jalil Akhond and Mullah Wakil Ahmad, in Kandahar on 16 September.
However, Mullah Rabbani did not give a clear answer to my Special Envoy's plea and reiterated that, in the light of past experience, it was difficult for the Taliban to trust UF.
Brahimi also drew Mullah Rabbani's attention to the potential danger to the aid community in Kabul posed by the hostile attitude of non-Afghan youths who had been arriving from Pakistan in alarmingly large numbers.
www.hri.ca /fortherecord1999/documentation/security/s-1999-1145.htm   (8169 words)

  
 KABUL'S NEW ISLAMIC RULE
Rabbani had allowed Najibullah to live after he was overthrown in 1992, and the former President had spent the past 4 1/2 years as a captive in a United Nations compound.
Many cheered at the gory spectacle--Najibullah had been nicknamed the "Butcher of Kabul" for his brutal, Soviet-backed rule, and his brother had served as his security chief--but that was probably in memory of past miseries, not with solid hopes for the future.
The night the insurgents arrived, most of Rabbani and Hekmatyar's forces had already fled, and the city was taken with no resistance.
www.time.com /time/international/1996/961007/afghanistan.html   (875 words)

  
 Hijacking: The Taliban angle
The four founding fathers of the Taliban in 1994---Mullah Omer himself, Mullah Rabbani, Mullah Abdullah and Mullah Biradar, who is also concurrently the Vice Chief of the Taliban Militia and the security-in-charge of the Kandahar and other airports--constitute the shoora's hard-core.
The most important members of the Council of Ministers are Mullah Rabbani himself, Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund, his No.2, Mullah Abdur Razzaq, Interior Minister, Mullah Qudratullah Akhund, Minister for Information and Culture, and Mullah Wakil Ahmad Mutawwakil, the Foreign Minister, who was before October 27,1999, the media spokesman of the Amir.
There are two important Pakistani influences--that of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the army, which is very strong on Mullah Rabbani and his Kabul-based Council of Ministers and of Maulana Fazlur Rahman, the Amir of the Balochistan-based Jamiat Ulema Islam (JUI), which is strong on Amir Omer and his shoora.
www.saag.org /papers/paper99.html   (1271 words)

  
 Encyclopedia Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Mohammad Rabbani Chairman of the Ruling Council; Head of the Council of...
Mohammad Rabbani was one of the main founders of the Taliban movement....supreme leader,
Mohammed Omar (born 1959) is the reclusive leader of the Taliban of...Soviet withdrawal,
www.encyclopedian.com /search.php?searWords=Mullah   (166 words)

  
 'Omar called Washington to seek evidence against Osama' -DAWN - Top Stories; 15 September, 2004
Mullah Omar's rhetoric mirrored Bin Laden's, but Mr Malinowski remarked that the Taliban chief "was in no way threatening".
Mullah Ehsanullah Ehsan, an influential member of the Taliban Inner Shura, later communicates his belief to US embassy officials that the expulsion of Osama Bin Laden from Afghanistan is not a solution to the 'problem'.
According to Mullah Ehsan, the real problem is not Bin Laden, but the failure of the US government to recognize the legitimacy of the Taliban government, which he advised America to do "if the US did not want every Afghan to become a Bin Laden."
www.dawn.com /2004/09/15/top8.htm   (986 words)

  
 Mullah Omar Called Washington in 1998, New Documents Show
Mullah Omar called bin Laden "an enemy," according to a Pakistani informant, while other Taliban officials tell the U.S. that Mullah Omar is the primary reason why bin Laden continued to be afforded sanctuary in Afghanistan, despite the fact that 80% of Taliban officials opposed his presence [6][9][7][24].
This cable, apparently a response to Mullah Omar's request for evidence against bin Laden, outlines the justification for the U.S. military action, the American case against bin Laden, and grounds for bin Laden's expulsion from Afghanistan by the Taliban.
Mujahid assured the U.S. that Mullah Omar already ordered the protection of the statues and that many of the Shiites in Bamiyan opposed the Taliban, and therefore had to be defeated.
www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB134   (3791 words)

  
 A short history of Afghanistan
The civil war continues and in 1996 the Taleban movement of spiritual leader Mullah Mohammad Omar seizes power in most of the country.
Burhanuddin Rabbani resumes office, but the same year he is succeeded by Hamid Karzai.
In 2004 a new constitution is accepted, identifying Afghanistan as an "Islamic Republic." The constitution paves the way for nationwide presidential and parliamentary elections to be held in june 2004.
www.electionworld.org /history/afghanistan.htm   (787 words)

  
 Searching for Answers Behind the Terror - Freedom Magazine
Author Gordon Thomas informed Freedom that Mullah Mohammad Omar, the head of the Taliban still being sought by U.S. and allied forces, has been a psychiatric patient in a Pakistan private clinic and has been seen by a Chinese psychiatrist.
Mullah Mohammad Rabbani, second in the Taliban hierarchy, vanished from the public eye shortly after Taliban forces captured Kabul in 1996.
In August 2000, when Rabbani was reported to be undergoing “medical treatment” in Islamabad, a statement released then by Afgha, Afghanistan’s press agency, reported that Rabbani “has [had] some psychiatric problem for a long time.”
www.freedommag.org /English/vol34i1/page03.htm   (1396 words)

  
 CNN - Afghan rebels hang former president after heavy fighting - Sept. 27, 1996
He was a communist," Rabbani told a news conference in the presidential palace.
The whereabouts of Rabbani and his top commander, Ahmed Shah Masood, were not known.
However, Afghan diplomats loyal to the Rabbani government told CNN that the government was relocating at the airbase at Baghram, just north of Kabul, and will mount a counteroffensive as soon as possible to recapture the city.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/9609/27/afghan.rebels   (557 words)

  
 ISN Security Watch - Karzai's 'good Taliban' speech provokes outrage
In his May 5 speech to Afghanistan’s Ulema (religious scholars) in Kabul, Karzai praised several mullahs and other former Taliban members whom he said turned away when the regime, under the influence of foreigners (from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan), launched its jihad (holy war) against fellow Muslims in Afghanistan.
The most controversial name mentioned in the Karzai speech was that of Mullah Ghaws, currently in exile in Pakistan.
Mohammad Ishaq Fayez is an independent journalist in Kabul.
www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?ID=6585   (733 words)

  
 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - World
Taliban acting President Mulla Mohammad Rabbani, left, being received by Pakistan Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar at a hotel in Islamabad on Monday.
Rabbani leads a 18-member delegation to hold talks with Pakistani officials on bilateral and regional issues of mutual interest.
Reacting to the Pakistan visit of Taliban chief Mullah Omar, Russia has said the organisation, which practices an "extreme" form of Islam, is keen to secure active Pakistani support for its fight against the northern Afghan forces of the anti-Taliban coalition.
www.tribuneindia.com /2000/20000202/world.htm   (2992 words)

  
 Taliban warn world against meddling [Free Republic]
PESHAWAR -The Taliban Supreme Commander, Mullah Mohammad Umar has wished friendly, brotherly and peaceful relations with the international community by his Islamic Emerate of Afghanistan and called for an end to foreign interference in their internal affairs.
The prime minister of Afghanistan and number two in the rank of Taliban after their leader, Mullah Mohammad Rabbani, inspected the guard of honour.
Mullah Mohammad Hussain, read out the message of the Supreme Commander, Mullah Mohammad Umar, who according to Ariana, said that on August 18, some 81 years ago, Afghan achieved their independence, protected their sovereignty by defeating the super power of that era.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a399f42006e9d.htm   (1018 words)

  
 Afghanistan and the United States
The Mullahs' anger is particularly directed at women who had their higher education in Hindu India, Communist USSR or the "decadent" West, where, according to the Mullahs, women are allowed to "run around like wild animals."
He lets the Mullahs of the Government in Kabul interact with domestic as well as foreign interlocutors for finding a solution to the tragic war and for ending the isolation of Afghanistan in the international community.
It is said that since then, Mullah Rabbani no longer enjoys the same trust of the Amir as before and spends more time in Dubai for medical treatment than for doing his job in Kabul.
www.subcontinent.com /sapra/research/world/w_1999_09_04.html   (2553 words)

  
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Mullah Amir Khan Motaql, Minister of Education; 27.
Mullah M. Ahmadi, President of Da Afghanistan Bank; 32.
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 CNN - U.N. envoy meets with Afghanistan's Taliban - Sept. 29, 1996
He spoke after a two-hour meeting in the Afghanistan capital with the new governing council led by Mullah Mohammad Rabbani.
Holl said women's rights were an issue during his talks with Rabbani, but he did not say what, if any, steps were taken to ensure that women's rights are protected.
He did acknowledge that the issue was a delicate one, given the Taliban's fundamentalist interpretation of Islamic law.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/9609/29/afghanistan   (370 words)

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