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| | 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. |
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