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	Ustad Atta Mohammed
		Ustad Atta Muhammad was the Mazar-i-Sharif-based senior commander of the Northern Alliance opposition forces that overthrew the Taliban in 2001.
		Atta Muhammad was among Tajik mujahideen Islamists who fought against Abdul Rashid Dostum in the anti-Soviet struggle in the 1980s.
		Atta Muhammad, an ethnic Tajik, Uzbek Abdul Rashid Dostum and Shi'a Hazara Ustad Mohaqiq were allied together under the Northern Alliance and fought together against the Taliban.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/afghanistan/ustad.htm (286 words)

	Afghanistan timeline February 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Antonella Deledda, Central Asia representative for the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime, said from Tashkent, Uzbekistan that the steady flow of opium and heroin from Afghanistan was causing rising drug addiction and AIDS infections across the region, especially in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
		Afghanistan's Defense Minister Mohammed Fahim headed to Washington, DC for a six-day trip intended for talks with U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
		The statement was attributed to fugitive Taliban chief Mullah Mohammed Omar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afghanistan_timeline_February_15-28,_2003 (5234 words)

	e-Ariana - Todays Afghan News
		Ustad Atta Mohammed, a senior commander in the north, also said President Hamid Karzai must resist calls for a federal state or risk the disintegration of Afghanistan.
		While both Atta and Dostum are officials of Karzai's government, they are bitter rivals whose forces have clashed repeatedly for control of the north since the Taliban fell in late 2001.
		Atta said there were hundreds of thousands of armed men in Afghanistan and for a U.N. and Japanese-led plan to disarm and demobilise them to work, they must be provided alternative livelihoods.
	www.e-ariana.com /ariana/eariana.nsf/allDocs/61488D3CF6ED2F0387256D1000643880?OpenDocument (574 words)

	Afghanistan Politics
		The warlords were brought in as vice-presidents, but a couple of them refused the vice-presidential posts because they wanted to retain their regional authority uncontested.
		Atta Mohammad, from the rival ethnic Tajiks, fought against the Soviet invasion, and at the time of the fall of the Taliban commanded some 20,000 troops.
		In late September 2003 troops belonging to the longtime rival commanders Dostum and Mohammed clashed in northern Afghanistan's Sar-e Pul province.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/afghanistan/politics.htm (2780 words)

	Afghanistan timeline October 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Sar-i-Pul province, Afghanistan, fighting broke out between forces of General Abdul Rashid Dostum and Ustad Atta Mohammed, killing at least ten.
		In one of the more controversial appointments, the former police chief of Kandahar (Mohammed Akram, an ethnic Pashtun) was named the chief in Mazar-e-Sharif.
		Clashes west of Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan between Atta Mohammad's Tajik Jamiat faction and Abdul Rashid Dostum's Uzbek Junbish faction killed and wounded more than fifty people.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afghanistan_timeline_October_2003 (2357 words)

	PakDef Forums - View Single Post - Clerics Sending Youth To Afghanistan Said In Fear Of Public Anger.
		One of the first western reporters to reach Mazar-i-Sharif, I was ushered into the home of Ustad Atta Mohammed, the Northern Alliance commander who—along with warlords Rashid Dostum and Haji Mohammed Mohaqiq—had taken the city a few days before.
		In interviews with Atta, Wasiq and dozens of their men and civilian eyewitnesses from the neighborhood around the school, I was able to piece together a full account of what happened.
		Atta is keeping his prisoners locked in a former cotton warehouse on the southwestern outskirts of Mazar.
	www.pakdef.info /forum/showpost.php?p=1198&postcount=3 (1373 words)

	LSN - Landmine Survivors Network
		Kneeling in the punishing sun between rows of gnarled, bare grapevines, Mohammed Afzal scraped away sandy soil with a trowel a fraction of an inch at a time as he worked his way toward a red plastic arrow.
		He is one of 90 de-mining experts sponsored by Roots of Peace, a San Rafael group, whose task is to eradicate explosives in the Shomali Valley, a windswept tract of land 40 miles north of Kabul that, but for the storms of war, could be Afghanistan's Napa Valley.
		Mohammed Afzal lifted the red arrow from the spot where the piece of shrapnel had been, put the piece of metal away and exhaled, forcing the air through pursed lips.
	www.landminesurvivors.org /news_article.php?id=353 (3455 words)

	USATODAY.com - Lawlessness still rules in Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		But now the battles here between Mohammed's and Dostum's forces are raising fears that Afghanistan will descend into the factional fighting that tore the country apart in the 1990s, before the Taliban brought its own brand of stability.
		Mohammed, a Tajik, is closely aligned with members of the former Northern Alliance who dominate Karzai's Cabinet.
		At Mohammed's headquarters at the outskirts of the city, Gen. Ustad Zarif denies that the warlords are fighting for control of Mazar-e-Sharif.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002/07/08/usat-afghan-analysis.htm (697 words)

	UK Indymedia - UF leader Dostum: an 'untrustworthy' ex-communist who blew up his prisoners
		There are, of course, obstacles in his way in the shape of other UF commanders such as Mohammed Ustad Atta, another Tajik.
		Atta and Dostum's bitter rivalry dates back to the Russian takeover, when they fought on opposite sides.
		Dostum was one of the most trusted allies of the Soviets while Atta, a Mazerite (resident of Mazar-e-Sharif), fought against the Russians as a mujahideen.
	www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2001/11/15948.html (1108 words)

	PakDef Forums - Clerics Sending Youth To Afghanistan Said In Fear Of Public Anger.
		Mohammed Daoud, a senior Northern Alliance commander, said the fighting broke out when Taleban forces - not knowing about the surrender agreement - tried to prevent about 200 of their fighters from surrendering to the Northern Alliance just east of Kunduz.
		Mohammed Youssef, the old Soviet fighter, for all his reservations about sending untrained boys to the front, says he is ready to be part of the future battle.
		It was Sufi Mohammed, now jailed in Pakistan after returning from the Afghan battlefield, who persuaded many of the illiterate Pashtuns in the area to sacrifice themselves for the Taliban.
	www.pakdef.info /forum/archive/index.php/t-168.html (10762 words)

	Afghanistan: Out of sight, out of mind: The fate of the Afghan returnees. - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		On 11 June 2003, fighting between the forces of Abdul Rashid Dostum and Ustad Atta Mohamed in Sholgara district, south of the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, killed at least two civilians and wounded another.
		This was mentioned as one of the compelling reasons for their decision to return by a number of returnee parents, including Mohammed Ayub, who returned with his three children to Kabul in April 2003.
		Shah Mohammed and Mohammed Ali, both 12 years old, said they were imprisoned and beaten by the police at the Zabul border, before being forcibly returned through the Herat border post in March 2003.
	web.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGASA110142003?open&of=ENG-AFG (12005 words)

	Asia Times Online - The trusted source for news on Central Asia
		But even as the international media remain focused on the deteriorating security situation in the south, fierce fighting between rivals in the northern areas is emerging as another serious problem.
		Ironically, Dostum and Atta Mohammed are on the same side in the larger war in Afghanistan.
		Atta Mohammed, a regional commander in the same area, is close to Fahim.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Central_Asia/EK05Ag02.html (1123 words)

	Terrorism - Northern Alliance
		Qari Qudratullah, a spokesman for alliance commander Atta Mohammed, said the fighters were fortifying their positions before the major assault.
		Mullah Mohammed Omar, supreme leader of the Taliban, warned that the United States will learn a "tougher lesson" than Soviet soldiers did, and that once U.S. troops are on the ground, the Americans will lose their technological edge.
		Faiz Mohamed, deputy commander of forces in the city of Dasht-e Qalat, speculated that the bombs were meant to test Taliban positions or perhaps push the troops back from the border.
	www.cdi.org /terrorism/northern.cfm (12735 words)

	[ www.azadiradio.org ]
		Even as Robertson was making those remarks, the private militia forces of Abdul Rashid Dostum and Ustad Atta Mohammed were clashing in the north.
		One of Atta's field commanders, General Abdul Saboor, says the battle was continuing today.
		Their ongoing battle is just one example of the difficulties facing Karzai as he tries to bring order to the Afghan provinces.
	www.azadiradio.org /en/specialreports/2003/09/B7A3FB9A-8511-4145-A33D-F60A155A2676.ASP (1008 words)

	Afghanistan proceeds to tear itself apart
		However, famed commander Ustad Atta has been motivating the northern Pashtun tribespeople to unite under the flag of Professor Sayyaf.
		It is said that Atta has now gathered strength with the help of these Pashtuns.
		Atta has tried to advance, and occupied some parts of Mazar-i-Sharif, clashing with Dostum's forces.
	www.atimes.com /c-asia/DB05Ag01.html (1191 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| SAS peace deal helps tame the warlords
		Gen Abdul Rashid Dostum, 47, and Gen Mohammed Ustad Atta, 37, met in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, a stone's throw from the glittering blue dome of the Tomb of Ali, one of the holiest sites in Islam.
		During their two-and-a-half-hour meeting last Thursday, Gen Dostum and Gen Atta agreed to establish a joint anti-terrorism unit, with troops drawn from both of their factions.
		Speaking at the headquarters of his forces, Gen Atta told The Daily Telegraph that he and Gen Dostum would each contribute 50 men to a 150-strong unit.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/07/09/wafg09.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/07/09/ixworld.html (974 words)

	Mazar-i-Sharif
		Sources reached by TIME inside the city on Friday confirmed claims by Northern Alliance generals Rashid Dostum and Ustad Atta Mohammed to have recaptured Mazar-i-Sharif.
		Taliban forces reportedly withdrew from the city after a bloody 90-minute battle at its southern entrance which began late in the afternoon, local time, triggering jubilant celebrations among the townspeople whose ethnic and political affinities are with the Northern Alliance.
		The city's religious significance -- the brother-in-law of the Muslim prophet Mohammed is buried near a Mazar-e Sharif mosque -- adds to its potential impact.
	www.bouwman.com /911/Operation/Mazar-i-Sharif.html (1460 words)

	WebWar_Y
		A key member of Osama bin Laden's inner circle, Mohammed Atef, the Egyptian-born militant who masterminded deadly terror strikes for a decade, is believed to have been killed in an airstrike near Kabul, officials said Friday.
		The Taliban supreme leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, sought to portray the Taliban's recent retreats from urban centers as part of a larger strategy aiming to destroy America.
		In a statement to be broadcast on radio inside Afghanistan, Mohammed Zaher Shah, 87, also urged that the U.S.-led bombing of Afghanistan end soon.
	myweb.cableone.net /citizenbfk/WarWreckedWeb/Web1_Frames/Update_Y.html (3626 words)

	Afghan security pact reached / Multiethnic police force planned
		Envoys for Atta and Dostum, longtime rivals who have fallen out again after briefly uniting to defeat the Taliban, agreed to the pact mediated by a third faction, led by Shiite Muslim leader Mohammed Mohaqqeq.
		Mohammad Sardar Saeedi, a representative of Mohaqqeq's party, said Dostum and Atta had agreed to hand control of Mazar-e-Sharif to a security commission and eventually demobilize tens of thousands of fighters and withdraw all heavy machine guns, tanks and armored personnel carriers from Mazar-e-Sharif, under U.N. supervision.
		Dostum, as deputy defense minister, is nominally subordinate to Atta's commander, ethnic Tajik Defense Minister Mohammed Fahim.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/02/05/MN225251.DTL (788 words)

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		It was difficult to determine the number of casualties from the latest round of fighting, said Mohammed, a senior commander of Massood's party who was contacted by satellite telephone.
		Mohammed said several Taleban soldiers died on the battlefield, and 20 were taken prisoner.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=12475 (4734 words)

	The Afghanistan Discussion Forums of AfghanSolidarity [Powered by Invision Power Board]
		It was the flag of Prophet Mohammed (saw) and the flag Islamic Ummah, it doesnt belong to Taliban it belongs to Allah (swt).
		To the west, forces loyal to Ustad Atta Mohammed, another Alliance commander, lost 30 men in a barrage of Taliban tank fire but seized the outlying village of Aq Kuprik.
		Atta has curried support like a small-town mayoral candidate, printing up posters of himself to plaster around the city, and Dostum is likely to take that as an affront.
	www.afghansolidarity.com /forum/index.php?act=Print&client=printer&f=6&t=172 (17493 words)

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		The Pashtun were prominently represented in both the previous communist and Taliban governments, and their virtual exclusion from the current administration - with the notable exception of President Mohammed Karzai - is a major cause for continuing concern.
		Mohammed Atta is a Tajik and protégé of the former leader of the Northern Alliance, General Massoud, who was murdered by Al Qaeda on 9 September 2001.
		Both of these men have sought to broaden the ethnic bases of their support by wooing local commanders of a different ethnicity, but all three groups have been engaged in murderous clashes over the summer of 2003, that have often taken on an ethnic character.
	www.minorityrights.org /Advocacy/Afghan2003.htm (5029 words)

	Strategic Insights -- The Prospects for Post-Conflict Afghanistan: A Call of the Sirens to the Country’s Troubled ...
		He also appointed Fahim as one of three vice-presidents, strengthening Fahim’s position in the Transition Government.[17] This move was a clear indication of the power of the Tajiks as well as the Northern Alliance and signaled Karzai's acceptance of the Panjshiris as necessary partners in his militarily weak government.
		After the announcement of the appointment of Taj Mohammed Wardak, an elderly governor and ethnic Pushtun, as the new Interior minister, Panjshiri soldiers and policemen in the ministry initially resisted the change with roadblocks and work stoppages.
		Mohammed Fahim, for example, became Defense Minister and an extremely important power broker because the Tajiks of the Northern Alliance controlled Kabul after the fall of the Taliban, not because he was the right man for the defense ministry.
	www.ccc.nps.navy.mil /si/2006/Feb/johnsonFeb06.asp (10924 words)

	military news about Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In a fresh bid to end a long-running feud between rival warlords, Afghan government authorities collected 38 tanks from Tajik commander Ustad Atta Mohammad at the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif and moved them to a compound outside the city.
		Dostum and Atta are both officially members of Karzai's government but also bitter rivals, whose forces have clashed repeatedly since helping to overthrow the Taliban in 2001.
		At least 17 people were killed and dozens wounded in October fighting to the west of Mazar (involving tanks, artillery and mortars), in one of the worst clashes in northern Afghanistan since the Taliban's overthrow.
	www.strategypage.com /fyeo/qndguide/afghan/articles03/20031121.asp (309 words)

	APAN \| Terrorism \| Press Summaries and Special Reports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		At least 60 people were killed and dozens injured when rival factions clashed in northern Afghanistan.
		According to reports, fighting between pro-government factions loyal to Uzbek General Abdul Rashid Dostum and those of his Tajik rival commander, Ustad Atta Mohammed, broke out earlier this week (October 8) some 37 miles (60 kilometers) west of the main northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.
		Both sides reportedly used tanks and heavy artillery as fighting moved to the outskirts of Balkh, some 12 miles (19 kilometers) west of Mazar-i-Sharif earlier today.
	www.apan-info.net /terrorism/terrorism_press_summary_detail.asp?id=287 (600 words)

	US fiasco in Afghanistan : Reassessment of strategy,India and the World, News Analysis, India News Online
		This has further been confirmed by Mohammed Asharaf Nadim, a spokesman for the three main opposition armies camped on the approaches to the Mazar-e-Sharif city.
		Doubting Gen. Dostum’s loyalty, the Tajik military commander in Mazar-e-Sharif, Ustad Atta, pulled out of the Tajik forces that were also jointly attacking Mazar-e-Sharif recently.
		The Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman, Riaz Mohammed Khan, at a press briefing on Oct. 29 admitted that the situation in some parts was disturbing and the Government was trying to persuade the pro-Taliban elements to refrain from precipitating matters.
	news.indiamart.com /news-analysis/us-fiasco-in-afghani-4940.html (6909 words)

	Tadjiks under Gen. Ahmad Shah Masood (Afghanistan)
		The following flags could be seen in reports about the war in Afghanistan between the Mujahideen and the Soviet Union, used by the Pashtuns under Generals Masood and Abdul-Haq: horizontal stripes fl-white-green (1:1:1), no emblem, some with shahada or inscriptions in Dari or Farsi.
		In the 25th February issue of the news magazine Der Spiegel there is an article about the power struggle in Mazar-i-Sharif between General Dostum (Uzbek) and General Ustad Atta Mohammed (Tajik).
		The latter is shown in front of a row of T-55 tanks flowing the green-white-fl horizontal triband (without coat-of-arms, proportion about 3:4).
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/af}masod.html (408 words)

	APAN \| Terrorism \| Press Summaries and Special Reports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Security continues to be fragile in Afghanistan and a recent wave of attacks against the Afghan government and foreign presence in the country continues by suspected Taliban and al-Qaeda militias.
		Factional fighting between the forces loyal to Uzbek General Abdul Rashid Dostum and that of his Tajik rival, Commander Ustad Atta Mohammed, clashed last week near Maimana in Faryab province.
		Factional fighting between two minority factions, Hezb-e-Wahdat and Herkat-e-Islami left at least five people dead near Surk Deh in the northern province of Samangan.
	www.apan-info.net /terrorism/terrorism_press_summary_detail.asp?id=200 (754 words)

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