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	Terror Tuesday: Impact on South Asia -- Mullah Mohammed Omar-Profile
		However, Mullah Omar is the final authority in the Taliban hierarchy.
		The paramount purpose of Mullah Omar was to forge a unity among the various warring factions and establish a true Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan.
		Mullah Omar dismissed the global outcry by indicating that the statues' destruction was merely ‘breaking stones’.
	www.satp.org /satporgtp/usa/Mullah_Moh.htm (568 words)

	Afghanistan timeline 1996-1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Taliban fighters seize opposition leader Ahmad Shah Masood's key Bagram airbase in an offensive to establish total dominance of Afghanistan; anti-Taliban fighters recapture the airbase on August 5.
		Mullah Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil is named foreign minister, replacing Mullah Mohammad Hassan.
		Mullah Abdul Razzaq is made interior minister, replacing Mullah Khairullah Khairkhwa, who is appointed as governor of the western province of Herat.
	www.icyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/af/afghanistan_timeline_1996_1999.html (1662 words)

	Profile of Taleban Leaders - Chart :: Khyber.ORG
		Mullah Ghaus belonged to Khushab near Qandahar and was aged 50.
		Mullah Ehsan was martyred in Mazar Sharif in 1997.
		Maulvi Ahmad Jan was a Zadran from Paktia and was aged 40.
	www.khyber.org /articles/2003/ProfileofTalebanLeaders-Chart.shtml (952 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Asia
		They include Mullah Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil, the former foreign minister who tried to warn the US about the 11 September attacks but was ignored, and who became the face of the Taliban to the world in the lead-up to the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
		During the years of Taliban rule, the ultra-moderate Mullah Muttawakil was the public face of the movement.
		Mullah Mohammed Khaksar was the Taliban's intelligence chief and deputy interior minister.
	news.independent.co.uk /world/asia/article312717.ece (695 words)

	three stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ahmad was close to Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, but failed to persuade him to give up Osama bin Laden during two trips to Afghanistan in recent weeks.
		But Muttawakil, who studied with Omar at the same madrasah and began his political career as Omar's driver, food taster, translator and note taker, has always depended on Omar for support and has no tribal power base.
		Muttawakil is the closest to being a Taliban technocrat, but he will never cross Omar.
	members.tripod.com /deinsf/wtc/three.htm (3061 words)

	Kathryn Hendley - Courses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A recent edict from Mullah Omar would seem to indicate that the penalty for foreigners is 3 to 10 days in prison followed by expulsion.
		Muttawakil, the bespectacled foreign minister, said that this rather light jail term applies only to people accused of the crime.
		Muttawakil announced that a new commission had been formed to supervise the activities of the United Nations and the relief agencies, the so-called nongovernmental organizations or NGO's.
	www.polisci.wisc.edu /users/hendley/pages/PS617/taliban.htm (1150 words)

	Taleban leaders chase Afghanistan votes - 16 Sep 2005 - World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		They include Mullah Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil, the former Foreign Minister who tried to warn the US about the September 11 attacks and who became the face of the Taleban to the world in the lead-up to the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
		During the years of Taleban rule, the ultra-moderate Mullah Muttawakil was the public face of the movement.
		Mullah Mohammed Khaksar was the Taleban's intelligence chief and deputy interior minister.
	www.nzherald.co.nz /section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10345736 (806 words)

	IA hijack victims wait for justice
		CBI agents also interrogated Mullah Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil, foreign minister in the Taliban government, in Afghanistan last year, but they are tight-lipped about what Muttawakil revealed.
		Muttawakil, who was the go-between between the hijackers and Indian negotiators Vivek Katju and Ajit K Douval, assured the Indians that the hijackers would not leave Kandahar airport till the hostages were flown out of Afghanistan.
		Muttawakil is currently in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's custody.
	www.rediff.com /news/2004/dec/24ia1.htm (869 words)

	Warnings Ignored - September 11 2001
		The warnings were delivered by an aide of Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil, the Taliban Foreign Minister at the time, who was known to be deeply unhappy with the foreign militants in Afghanistan, including Arabs.
		Mr Muttawakil's aide, who has stayed on in Kabul and who has to remain anonymous for his security, described in detail to The Independent how he alerted first the Americans and then the United Nations of the coming calamity of 11 September.
		September 7, 2002 An aide to the former Taleban foreign minister, Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil, has revealed that he was sent to warn American diplomats and the United Nations that Osama bin Laden was due to launch a huge attack on American soil.
	911review.org /Sept11_news/archives/warnings_ignored_Ahmed_Muttawakil_911.html (1819 words)

	Taliban tanks and artillery fire on Buddhas
		But Mullah Omar, the Taliban leader, has decreed that all statues are anti-Islamic and must be destroyed.
		Mullah Qudratullah Jamal, the culture minister, said in Kabul: "Whatever means of destruction are needed will be used."
		Mullah Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil, the foreign minister, told him: "The abandoned relics are not our pride." On his return to Islamabad, Mr Vendrell said he had suggested that the statues could be moved outside the country if the Taliban found them offensive.
	hss.fullerton.edu /comparative/taliban_tanks.htm (819 words)

	IOL: Taliban rules out statue-smash alternatives
		Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil, the Taliban foreign minister, said there was no possibility of reversing and edict issued by the movement's reclusive leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, for total destruction of all statues - including the two giant Buddhas that are the country's best-known archaeological treasure.
		Muttawakil rejected proposals to save the statues, which have included offers from foreign museums to buy them and a proposal to build a giant wall in front of the Bamiyan Buddhas to hide them from Islamic eyes.
		Muttawakil said the destruction campaign was suspended this week only because of the religious festival of Eid-al-Adha.
	www.iol.co.za /index.php?sf=31&set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw984040141461B212 (694 words)

	India steps up hunt for hijackers
		Before proceeding to Kandahar, the Indian officials reportedly got permission from the Afghan government to question several Taliban operatives including Mullah Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil, who happened to be Afghanistan's foreign minister during Taliban rule and a key witness in the 1999 hijack.
		The CBI believed that Muttawakil would be able to divulge more details about the intricacies of the hijack such as contacts that hijackers had with the outside world including instructions and logistical support they received from Pakistan.
		What is not known to the Pakistani intelligence is whether Muttawakil was questioned for reconstructing the hijack or whether he agreed to record a statement as a witness in the ongoing trial in a Patiala court.
	in.rediff.com /news/2004/oct/12spec1.htm (1335 words)

	Zee News - Muttawakil considering asylum, declines cabinet post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		New York, Nov 03: Former Taliban Foreign Minister Mullah Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil, has already declined a cabinet post and is considering asylum in an Arab country, possibly Qatar.
		Muttawakil, Karzai's mediator to the Taliban, was released last Monday after 20 months in custody at a US military base near Kabul, advisors to Afghan President Hamid Karzai were quoted as saying today by the Time magazine.
		Still Muttawakil has taken the risk of sounding out some of his former comrades in Kandahar, the magazine quoted his family as saying.
	www.zeenews.com /znnew/articles.asp?aid=129369&sid=WOR (228 words)

	BALLAD OF A SPIRITUAL FRIEND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		They are against Islam,” the Taliban’s Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil told the Associated Press in a telephonic interview from southern Kandahar — the headquarters of the Taliban.
		Muttawakil rejected offers from several countries as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
		Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmad Mutawakel said he had detailed discussions with Lafrance in the militia’s southern bastion of Kandahar, but could see no reason to stop the destruction, the private Afghan Islamic Press reported.
	www.buddhistnews.tv /bamiyan/destruction0503.htm (393 words)

	Asia Times Online - The trusted source for news on Central Asia
		In addition to these long-term contacts, for the past 20 months the former Taliban foreign minister, Mullah Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil, has been sitting in the US-controlled Bagram air base near Kabul, a prisoner since his arrest.
		Although US intelligence agencies were aware that the Taliban in Pakistan's Baloch city of Quetta, and the Arab and Chechen-led al-Qaeda, were re-arming themselves and were in no mood to put down their arms, they miscalculated their resolve.
		Muttawakil has since been released, and for good reason his whereabouts have been kept a secret.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Central_Asia/EK22Ag01.html (2238 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A young Mullah, who has lost one eye in the Afghan Jihad against the Soviet Union, has proclaimed himself to be the supreme leader of the Taleban movement.
		When his forces and those of Ahmad Shah Masood in their infighting were firing rockets on Kabul, he was the Prime Minister of the same government where Masood was the Minister of Defense.
		Mullah Omar may authorize penalties and punishments against Afghans, but actually he may be carrying out the wishes of a religious extremist group.
	users.tns.net /~parwin/politics/countrycorner/CCorner2/DR032301.htm (1382 words)

	nthposition online magazine: The first circle
		Lt-General Mahmoud Ahmad, head of the ISI and architect of the 1999 coup that brought General Musharraf to power, was in Washington the day the World Trade Centre exploded and American Airlines flight 77 slammed into the Pentagon.
		Ahmad could go to Kandahar, but he would deliver only the bluntest of messages: surrender bin Ladin without conditions, or expect a declaration of war from the US.
		Ahmad had already approved a trip to Kandahar by retired, mid-level ISI officers in defiance of Musharraf's orders, allegedly to advise the Taliban on strategy in the event that the US launched air strikes.
	www.nthposition.com /thefirstcircle.php (6207 words)

	Mullah Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil :: Khyber.ORG
		Wakil Ahmad Mutawakil has always been described as the more respectable face of the Taleban.
		Mr Mutawakil is from the Taleban's spiritual centre of Kandahar, in Afghanistan's south, and became the Taleban's foreign minister in late 1999.
		Prior to that he was spokesman and secretary to Mullah Omar, on whose whereabouts the US military will hope Mr Mutawakil can shed some light.
	www.khyber.org /people/afghanistan/mullahmutawakil.shtml (326 words)

	Inside the Taliban
		But Muttawakil, who studied with Omar at the same madrassa and began his political career as Omar's driver, food taster, translator and note taker, has always depended on Omar for support and has no tribal power base.
		Attempts now under way by Pashtun tribal leaders loyal to Zahir Shah to create a split in the Taliban are focussing not on the Kandahari group, but on the fellow travellers who dislike the influence wielded by the Arabs and are not prepared to hold the Afghan nation hostage for bin Laden.
		Days before the September 11 terrorist attacks, bin Laden is suspected of having organised the assassination of Ahmad Shah Masood, the Taliban's worst enemy and leader of the anti-Taliban United Front, or Northern Alliance.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1822/18220210.htm (1394 words)

	Taliban stand by Bin Laden despite US threats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Pakistan is one of only three countries to recognise the Taliban government and was a key backer of the purist Islamic movement as it swept to power in the mid-1990s, taking most of the country and ending two decades of civil war.
		Pakistan's diplomatic efforts coincide with a call by Mullah Omar for a war council in Kabul of Islamic clerics to discuss the defence of Afghanistan in the event of US attacks.
		Mullah Omar has already said the Taliban would declare a jihad, or holy war, against the United States if it attacked and also against any country that gives Washington assistance.
	www.iol.co.za /general/avant_newsview.php?click_id=3&art_id=qw1000733107155B232&set_id=6 (899 words)

	JS Online:
		The foreign minister, Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil, gave himself up to Afghan forces on Friday and is now in the custody of the U.S. military in Kandahar.
		Muttawakil might not be of much use in helping the United States nab bin Laden.
		A Pakistani diplomat said Muttawakil's surrender probably was spurred by President Bush's decision last week that Taliban members in U.S. custody are covered by the Geneva Convention.
	www.jsonline.com /story/index.aspx?id=19200&format=print (572 words)

	Ex-Taliban leader regrets hiding bin Laden - The Washington Times: World - May 26, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mutawakil was with the Taliban from the beginning, serving first as private secretary to leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, and then as the foreign minister as the group rose to rule Afghanistan according to harsh Islamic strictures.
		He fell out with Mullah Omar in the last weeks of their rule over the decision to back al Qaeda leader bin Laden and gave himself up in early 2002.
		Mullah Omar disappeared as U.S. and Afghan resistance forces closed in on his Kandahar base in late 2001 and is thought to have been hiding, like bin Laden, in the rugged mountainous area on the Pakistan border.
	www.washingtontimes.com /world/20050526-120721-9086r.htm (728 words)

	iWon - News
		They then flew to Kabul and had talks Tuesday with Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhond, deputy head of the Taliban Council of Ministers and Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil.
		It was unclear if the clerics had the authority to decide to surrender bin Laden given the reverence that surrounds his chief protector, Mullah Omar, who was not expected to attend,.
		Mullah Omar has already warned that the Taliban would declare a jihad, or holy war, against the United States if it attacked and also against any country that helped Washington.
	news1.iwon.com /top/article/id/164879\|top\|09-18-2001::14:12\|reuters.html (818 words)

	The Rediff Interview/Mullah Omar : Indybay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mullah Mohammed Omar was a reclusive figure even before his militant Taliban government was overthrown by the Americans and he was forced into hiding.
		Mullah Omar and bin Laden go back to their time as resistance fighters against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989.
		Reports that Mullah Omar had married bin Laden's eldest daughter while bin Laden took one of Mullah Omar's daughters as his fourth wife have been consistenly denied by the Taliban.
	www.indybay.org /newsitems/2004/04/11/16771211.php (1520 words)

	‘Taliban agreed to hand over Osama in ’98’ -DAWN - International; November 5, 2001
		Prince Turki also told the Middle East Broadcasting Centre (MBC) in an interview that he believed that Osama was behind the Sept 11 suicide attacks, saying those who felt otherwise were “turning a blind eye to the facts”.
		Taliban envoy Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil, now the movement’s foreign minister, had reiterated that vow during a visit to Saudi Arabia in July 1998.
		Asked who was in charge, Osama or Mullah Omar, who is reported to be married to one of Osama’s daughters, Prince Turki, a brother to Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said:
	www.dawn.com /2001/11/05/int13.htm (535 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.
		Foreign Minister Muttawakil said Rabbani died of cancer and would be buried on Monday in an official cemetery in the southern city of Kandahar.
		"He was first and foremost a commander of the jihad in Kandahar," said the Taliban Foreign Minister, Wakil Ahmad Mutawakil, "and secondly a religious scholar." Rabbani leaves the movement he helped to found increasingly isolated internationally and bogged down in civil war.
	www.angelfire.com /home/mullah2 (920 words)

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