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	Abdul Rashid Dostum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		General Abdul Rashid Dostum (also Abdurrashid Dostum, born 1954) is the Deputy Defense Minister of Afghanistan and an Uzbek warlord.
		Along with General Mohammed Fahim and Ismail Khan, Dostum was one of three factional leaders that comprised the Northern Alliance.
		Dostum is also under suspicion for the events of the Dasht-i-Leili massacre.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abdul_Rashid_Dostum (460 words)

	War
		Dostum was wounded by a shell fragment and was treated in a hospital in Tashkent.
		Dostum was a member of the Northern Alliance, which prefers to be called the United Front, and the only thing holding its members together was that they had all had been defeated by the Taliban and belonged to the non-Pashtun minorities.
		Born: Abdul Rashid Dostum, 1954 or 1955, in Khwaja Dokoh, Afghanistan.
	www.zmag.org /cockburndostum.htm (1865 words)

	[ Afghan Elections 2004-2005 ]
		Dostum is not himself a candidate in the 2005 legislative elections, but he continues to pull the strings within the party he formerly led, the National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan, also known as "Junbish" (see No. 54).
		Dostum was a laborer who rose to become a union boss in the oil and gas sector, including a trip to the Soviet Union for training in 1980 (Adamec, p.
		Dostum was ousted from his Mazar-e Sharif stronghold and his surrounding mini-state in 1997, and eventually forced to flee to Uzbekistan, Iran, then Turkey.
	www.azadiradio.org /en/specials/elections/candidates-dostum.asp (819 words)

	[ www.azadiradio.org ]
		Dostum's forces have been involved in a number of clashes with rival commanders since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, prompting Transitional Administration Chairman Karzai to appoint Dostum as an adviser and recall him to Kabul.
		Dostum, who officially holds the title of special adviser on security and military affairs to Afghan Transitional Administration Chairman Hamid Karzai, is the head of his own party, Junbish-e Melli, and his own military force in northern Afghanistan, and has advocated autonomy in the region under the pretext of federalism.
		Dostum called the accusations "inaccurate propaganda [that] cannot have any other aims." Jalali and Defense Minister Mohammad Qasim Fahim are involved in the creation of problems in northern parts of the country, Dostum charged on 8 April, accusing Habibi of having ties to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
	www.azadiradio.org /en/weeklyreport/2004/04/14.asp (2139 words)

	PATENTS ON LIFE - NI 349 - Worldbeaters: Abdul Rashid Dostum
		Rashid noticed smears of blood and flesh in one corner of the courtyard and wondered to the guards if a goat had recently been slaughtered.
		Dostum is the son of poor Uzbek peasants and worked in the oilfields near his home province of Jozjan.
		In the meantime Dostum, who is characterized by his air of ‘jovial menace’, looks to have better survival odds than the fledgling Afghan aspirations for peace and democracy.
	www.newint.org /issue349/worldbeaters.htm (1091 words)

	Rashid
		Rashid al-Din Rashid al-Din Tabib (1247-1318), a Persian official of the 13th-14th century C.E. Persian language.
		Rashid bin Humayd Rashid bin Humayd was the Shaikh of 1838.
		Rashid Minhas Rashid Minhas or Rashid Minhas Shaheed (born Pakistan Air Force during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/rashid.html (188 words)

	Abdul Rashid Dostum -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In 1994, Dostum again switched sides, allying with forces of (Click link for more info and facts about Gulbuddin Hekmatyar) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, in once more laying siege on Kabul, this time against the government of (Click link for more info and facts about Burhanuddin Rabbani) Burhanuddin Rabbani and Massoud.
		Dostum is also under suspicion for the events of the (Click link for more info and facts about Dasht-i-Leili massacre) Dasht-i-Leili massacre.
		Forces loyal to Dostum continue to clash with forces loyal to (A native or inhabitant of Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China) Tajik General (Click link for more info and facts about Mohammed Atta) Mohammed Atta.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/Ab/Abdul_Rashid_Dostum.htm (507 words)

	Ann Marlowe on press & Afghanistan on National Review Online
		Dostum ostensibly was a member of the Northern Alliance, the ethnic Tajik-led militia coalition that drove the Taliban from the north with U.S. help last fall and whose leaders now hold several key posts in the interim government.
		Dostum is from a peasant family and had to leave school after the seventh grade.
		Rashid's January 14 New Yorker article is a one-sided attack on Uzbekistan's government, written from a standpoint of sympathy with Islamists.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-marlowe021802.shtml (3912 words)

	Afghanistan - General Rashid Dostum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Roly-poly Rashid got caught up in his own web of intrigue when his second in command defected to the Taliban on May 25, 1997, and had to hightail it to Ankara.
		Dostum used to control eight provinces in the north and ran his little kingdom out of his hometown and western military headquarters of Shebergan, Jozjan province, 80 miles from Mazar.
		Dostum, the former military commander under Najibullah, is now looking after the Uzbeki's interest in northern Afghanistan.
	www.comebackalive.com /df/dplaces/afghanis/player2.htm (271 words)

	CNN.com - Longtime warlord Dostum plays politician - March 23, 2002
		Even Dostum admitted the order, which was prompted partly by a request from the interim national government in Kabul, marked a stark contrast from his reputation among Taliban fighters as a hard-nosed and at times cruel adversary.
		Once a military commander under the communist government in Afghanistan, Dostum was among the warlords that battled for control of Kabul after the Soviets withdrew from the country.
		Dostum often employed a mixture of military might and politics, pledging in 1996 to join the group that would become the Northern Alliance while promoting a new Afghan government that would include the Taliban.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/central/03/22/ret.dostum (572 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| South Asia \| Profile: General Rashid Dostum
		General Rashid then retreated to his power base in the north, consolidating his hold on an area which covered six provinces with a population of around five million.
		General Dostum returned to Afghanistan earlier this year, and reached a compromise agreement with former rival Ahmed Shah Massoud to fight jointly against the Taleban.
		General Dostum said he accepted that appointment and would follow instructions from the government-in-exile of President Rabbani.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/1563344.stm (592 words)

	Dostum survives suicide attack -DAWN - Top Stories; 21 January, 2005
		KABUL, Jan 20: Afghan strongman Abdul Rashid Dostum survived an assassination attempt by a suicide bomber on Thursday but 22 people were injured, an aide to Dostum and witnesses said.
		Dostum, an ethnic Uzbek and former general, was an unsuccessful candidate in last October's presidential election, winning 10 per cent of the vote largely among the Uzbek and Turkmen minorities.
		Dostum's brother Qadir, who was injured in the blast, told AFP that Dostum's bodyguards stepped in front of the bomber and took the brunt of the explosion.
	www.dawn.com /2005/01/21/top9.htm (392 words)

	Afghania Portal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The attempt to assassinate Afghan Uzbek leader Rashid Dostum on January 20 in Shibirghan in the Amu Darya in northern Afghanistan bears all the hallmarks of a political plot.
		Dostum himself had just entered what could be the most fascinating phase of his tumultuous career.
		As it became clear that Dostum was raising the banner of revolt (within the four walls of democratic opposition), US Ambassador Zilmay Khalilzad rushed to Mazar-i-Sharif.
	www.afghania.com /printarticle6689.html (1175 words)

	Abdul Rashid Dostum
		Dostum then consolidated his power base in the north, strengthening his hold on an area which covered six provinces with a population of around five million.
		Dostum's force of some 20,000 militia fighters is composed mostly of ethnic Uzbeks who are members of his political group, Junbish-e Melli.
		Abdul Rashid Dostum (who was also deputy defense minister) and Ismail Khan, who had been governor of Herat Province, had been particularly intransigent warlords.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/afghanistan/dostum.htm (712 words)

	Station Information - Abdul Rashid Dostum
		General Abdul Rashid Dostum (1954 -) is the Deputy Defense Minister of Afghanistan and an Uzbek warlord.
		In 1994, Dostum again switched sides, allying with forces of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, in once more laying seige on Kabul, this time against the government of Burhanuddin Rabbani and Massoud.
		In 2001, he returned from exile on the heels of a U.S-led bombing campaign that drove the Taliban from power.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/a/ab/abdul_rashid_dostum.html (367 words)

	Jumbish-i-Milli
		Afghanistan's former king Mohammad Zahir Shah (C) is helped by Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum from an Italian C-130 plane as he is followed by the head of the interim Afghan government, Hamid Karzai, upon arrival at Kabul airport April 18, 2002.
		In the first meeting, JNMP gained its official status and stir General dostum Al-Hajj Stir Abdul Rashid Dostum was elected as the leader of the party.
		Al-Hajj Stir General Abdul Rashid Dostum, the leader of JNMP is on your side and the revenges of the blood of our bold nation's sons was taken against The Taliban and there Arab accomplices.
	www.angelfire.com /ny/Chapandaz (1275 words)

	CBS News \| U.S. Convoy In Afghanistan Bombed \| July 26, 2004 10:57:24
		Abdul Rashid Dostum, urging Afghans to register in time to vote this fall, insists that his goal is national unity.
		Abdul Rashid Dostum decided to run after securing support across the war-riven country's deep ethnic divides, his spokesman Faizullah Zaki said - and after thousands of supporters feted him at a rally in a northern city.
		Dostum's Jumbesh militia was part of the Northern Alliance forces which helped the United States drive out the Taliban in late 2001.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/07/26/world/main631821.shtml (863 words)

	Abdul Rashid Dostum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		General Abdul Rashid Dostum is the Deputy Defense Minister of Afghanistan and a Uzbek warlord.
		He began as a union boss in the 1970s until he formed an Uzbek militia.
		Dostum then fought with the Northern Alliance against the Taliban, capturing, in tandum with the forces of Ahmed Shah Massoud, Kabul on April 18, 1992
	www.encyclopedian.com /ab/Abdul-Rashid-Dostum.html (370 words)

	Afghan militias in northeast sign pact to quell deadly violence / Western officials pressured leaders to agree to deal
		Rashid Dostum, a powerful ethnic Uzbek leader who has long dominated several northeastern provinces, and Gen. Attah Mohammad, an ethnic Tajik and close political ally of Afghanistan's defense minister, signed the agreement under strong pressure from the central government and Western military officials, who brokered the deal at a meeting in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif.
		Dostum, who previously served as deputy defense minister and regional army commander under the U.S.-backed government, appeared to have emerged from the crisis in a stronger political and military position.
		Under Thursday's agreement, both Dostum and Mohammad will withdraw their forces 30 miles in opposite directions from Mazar over the next two days; a commission will be named to investigate criminal charges against Mohammad's forces; and 300 police officers will be sent from Kabul to oversee security in the city.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/10/10/MN220853.DTL (653 words)

	New U.S. Allie Dostum a Double-Crossing Butcher
		Dostum retained control by maintaining an intricate balance of alliance and deceit with the array of powers vying for control over Afghanistan.
		Dostum was even awarded the Hero of the Republic of Afghanistan medal.
		Dostum rushed back from exile in Turkey to repel another Taliban attack in late 1997 but the militia finally recaptured Mazar in August, 1998.
	www.freemasonrywatch.org /dostum.html (1001 words)

	Rashid Dostum
		General Abdul Rashid Dostum, leader of Afghanistan's minority Uzbek community, is a controversial figure who has often changed sides in Afghanistan's complex web of shifting alliances.
		Dostum sided with Najibullah until his defeat was imminent
		General Dostum grew rich, but his rule was harsh.
	www.afghanan.net /biographies/dostum.htm (449 words)

	Afghan power brokers \| csmonitor.com
		Dostum and Afghanistan's many other warlords –; the kinds of men who have ruled this country for centuries on the basis of tribal, ethnic, and geographical ties – have had many opportunities to fight in recent decades.
		Dostum has emerged to promote himself as what might be called the moderate man's warlord, who will help bring peace and prosperity to all of Afghanistan.
		Dostum is the son of poor peasants who was once embarrassed to go to work in his beat-up shoes.
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/0610/p01s03a-wosc.html (1466 words)

	The World Today Archive - Afghan warlord leading one Northern Alliance charge
		Abdul Rashid Dostum, the Afghan warlord, is one of the Northern Alliance commanders leading the attacks on Taliban positions.
		HASHAN SAAD: [indistinct] General Dostum's and parts of the Islamic state of Afghanistan is part of the United Front, and I don't think that in the future of Afghanistan every commander different area under his control.
		Dostum has never been driven by religion or ideology, just by the more malleable motives of power and money.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/stories/s411871.htm (638 words)

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		Roly-poly Rashid got caught up in his own web of intrigue when his second in command defected to the taliban in May of '97.
		Rashid is an old time commie warlord who is propped up by Uzbekistan and drug transportation from the hash and poppy rich fields around Mazar-i-Sharif.
		Dostum, the former military commander under Najibullah, looks after the interest of the Uzbek government, businessmen, drug lords and gangsters (some say they are all one and the same here) interest in northern Afghanistan and has no shortage of backers.
	www.angelfire.com /in/dc/player2.html (189 words)

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		Dostum Enters Kunduz Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit [In the battle between anti-Taliban warlords, Abdul Rashid Dostum seems to have come out on top of the struggle for Kunduz.
		It said 2,500 Dostum troops were in the city and captured Taliban fighters were being shipped west to Dostum's main headquarters in Mazar-i-Sharif.
		AIP said Dostum's forces were led by commander Shams-ul-haq Nasiri, an ethnic Pashtun.
	www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/2001mid/Dostum_Enters_Kunduz_ (1447 words)

	Abdul Rashid Dostum - netlexikon
		Januar 2005 entging Dostum in Schibergan nur knapp einem Selbstmordattentat auf sein Leben.
		Dostum bedeutet eigentlich mein Freund, meint aber jedermanns Freund, womit auf den ausgeprägten Opportunismus Raschids angespielt wird.
		Artikel zum Stichwort "Abdul Rashid Dostum" bei Ebay.de
	www.lexikon-definition.de /Abdul-Rashid-Dostum.html (157 words)

	EurasiaNet Q & A - Abdul Rashid Dostum: "More Important Than a Position in the Government Is Keeping the ...
		You have exactly 20 minutes for the interview." Immediately, Dostum began to speak of what he thought to be the crucial role of the North and Mazar e Sharif, his base, in the future of Afghanistan.
		Dostum: In the Vahdat Party office in Kabul, we had meetings with most of the provincial officials and the elders from all the ethnic groups that had come to welcome the King back to Afghanistan.
		Dostum: First of all I have to say positions are not important to me. Some of our students from the past now have positions in the interim government.
	www.eurasianet.org /departments/qanda/articles/eav042402a.shtml (1318 words)

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