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	Afghanistan timeline August 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the Shajoi region of Zabul province, Afghanistan, a police checkpoint near a camp for Indian and Afghan highway workers were attacked by armed men on motorcycles.
		In Zabul province, Afghanistan, U.S. fighter jets and helicopters bombed suspected Taliban hideouts.
		In Zabul province, Afghanistan, U.S. bombing raids killed an estimated 20 suspected Taliban fighters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afghanistan_timeline_August_2003 (2786 words)

	Lemar-Aftaab - July - Sept. 1998 - Vol. 1: Issue. 5 - Journey - Zabul - Daud Saba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Zabul The province of Zabul is located between the provinces of Kandahar and Ghazni.
		Thus, there were plans to move the capital of Zabul from Kalat to the second most important town Shajuiy that is located in the northeastern part of the province.
		Note: Due to the lack of academic research of Zabul and other certain provinces of Afghanistan, there is not sufficient information on the aspects of geography, economy, and the population of townships and villages.
	www.afghanmagazine.com /july98/journey/zabul.html (443 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Zabul provincial intelligence chief Khalil Hotak said Afghan government forces backed by US-led troops were searching in the Koh Larzab area of Dai Chopan, where he said Taliban militants were believed to be hiding in caves.
		The battle in Zabul helped make August the bloodiest month since the Taliban was toppled from power by U.S. air power and Afghan ground forces in late 2001.
		The highway is the largest reconstruction project in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in late 2001, and its progress is seen as a barometer of the success or otherwise of the U.S.-backed central government in stabilising the country.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030903/asp/foreign/story_2327988.asp (423 words)

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		Zabul is of strategic and military importance for a number of reasons.
		Third, controlling Zabul gives the Taliban a way to cut lines of logistics, troop supply and communication between U.S. and coalition troops in Kandahar and in Paktika and Paktia provinces to the east and along the border with Pakistan.
		Zabul's provincial deputy governor, Mullah Mohammed Omar (not to be confused with the Taliban supreme leader), told Reuters on July 27 that the government's failure to pay troops' salaries was causing the army to lose strength.
	www.cuttingedge.org /news_updates/nz1032.htm (1121 words)

	Security concerns in Zabul province- Global Policy Forum - NGOs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Ravaged by more than four years of drought, Zabul is one of the poorest of the beleaguered nation's 32 provinces.
		On 26 December, a vehicle from the UK-based NGO, Oxfam was hijacked on the main Kandahar-Kabul highway between Qalat and Shah Juy in Zabul province.
		Oxfam, which has been active in Zabul for three years and whose food distributions, water source repairs, and veterinary services benefit some 100,000 people, was equally determined to stay on.
	www.globalpolicy.org /ngos/aid/2003/0108zabul.htm (610 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Two U.S. Troops Killed in Afghanistan
		In Zabul, Hotak said an unknown number of Taliban were stationed in the Kohi Sero area, the Taliban's main stronghold and the target of bombing by U.S. and allied fighters and heavy artillery fire from infantry forces.
		The clashes in Zabul extend the worst wave of violence in Afghanistan since the Taliban was ousted from power by U.S. air attacks supported by special forces and Afghan ground troops.
		Mullah Abdul Jabar, recently appointed governor of Zabul by the Taliban, told Reuters early on Sunday by satellite telephone that his forces were easily defending themselves and inflicting heavy casualties on their enemies.
	www.truthout.org /docs_03/090103C.shtml (747 words)

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		The highway is the largest reconstruction project in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in late 2001, and its progress is seen as a barometer of the success or otherwise of the central government in stabilizing the country.
		Zabul's intelligence chief, Khalil Hotak, also said that authorities from neighboring provinces had rushed fighters to the borders of the district to arrest Taliban forces trying to flee.
		The Taliban force in Zabul was the largest concentration of militants from the ousted regime since it was toppled from power late in 2001.
	www.ratical.org /ratville/CAH/TalibanBack.txt (2288 words)

	e-Ariana - Todays Afghan News
		Zabul officials also denied any talks were taking place.
		Zabul governor Hafizullah Hashim also denied there were any negotiations and said the militants were surrounded.
		At least 13 suspected Taliban were killed in Zabul fighting at the weekend, according to Hashim's spokesman Noor Rahman who said 85 people had been killed during a week of clashes.
	www.e-ariana.com /ariana/eariana.nsf/allDocs/DFFA56F4F7A4DDD387256D950055B117?OpenDocument (699 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		However, the five delegates chosen to represent Zabul were elected by just 150 people from seven of the province's 11 districts.
		The representatives who were to vote on behalf of the four other Zabul districts did not attend the elections because they weren't informed about the time and place.
		Three of the delegates who were elected to represent Zabul told IWPR they were aware that not everyone was represented in the election process.
	www.iwpr.net /archive/arr/arr_200312_90_7_eng.txt (533 words)

	Taliban Lurches Back To Power In Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		General Ayoub Khan, the security commander for Zabul, says some of the Taliban commanders are Pakistani, although it is difficult to confirm because many extended Pashtun families straddle the border.
		If the Taliban's strategy is to make Zabul too difficult for the central government and international aid agencies to work in, it has worked.
		Zabul's deputy governor, Malawi Mohammed Omar, said the Americans face a difficult task because they are not talking to the local communities to find out who is an enemy and who is not.
	www.rense.com /general49/taliban.htm (1034 words)

	DefendAmerica News - Afghanistan Update
		ZABUL PROVINCE, Afghanistan - Coalition soldiers conducting a local patrol in support of Operation Mountain Viper in the vicinity of the firebase at Deh Chopan, in Zabul province, were engaged by an attempted ambush yesterday.
		Coalition forces are operating in coordination with AMF indigenous to the Zabul and Kandahar provinces.
		Zabul Province, Afghanistan -- Coalition forces continuing their offensive operation near Deh Chopan as part of Operation Mountain Viper were engaged by an unknown-sized element in the vicinity of Deh Chopan, according to U.S. Central Command officials.
	www.defendamerica.mil /afghanistan/update/sep2003/au091203.html (5927 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Afghan government opens talks with Taliban in troubled south
		At least 13 suspected Taliban were killed in separate fighting in Zabul province over the weekend, Afghan officials said Sunday amid reports that hundreds of Taliban fighters have converged on the mountains of Zabul.
		Similar negotiations for a peaceful settlement in Zabul were also underway in other provincial districts of Shenkay, Syori and Naubahar, he said.
		AIP said Zabul was the last of the 32 Afghan provinces to surrender after the fall of the Taliban regime in late 2001.
	www.reliefweb.int /w/rwb.nsf/6686f45896f15dbc852567ae00530132/3f2b5a246aa82a8fc1256d94003299f5?OpenDocument (512 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Middle East / 12 Afghan troops dead as violence escalates
		At least seven more soldiers were killed in other clashes in the southern province of Zabul on Tuesday and Wednesday, provincial officials said.
		Kheyal Mohammad Husseini, the Zabul governor, said the latest fighting erupted when guerrillas attacked a government post in the Sori district of the restive province, killing 12 soldiers.
		Zabul is near the border with Pakistan and is part of the main bastion of the Taliban.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2004/10/01/12_afghan_troops_dead_as_violence_escalates (387 words)

	Navy SEALs.com - Articles: Viewing Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Zabul is so dangerous that even the International Committee of the Red Cross, which specializes in working in war zones, won't come here.
		Issaq was deployed to Zabul in the aftermath of Operation Mountain Viper, an offensive that saw some of the most severe fighting since the Taliban was ousted in 2001.
		The need for the new army was painfully evident in Zabul province this past summer, when the Taliban was reorganizing and nobody stood in its way.
	www.navyseals.com /community/articles/article.cfm?id=1681 (1536 words)

	USATODAY.com - Taliban regrouping in southern Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Zabul province is only about 60 miles from the Taliban's former power base in the southern city of Kandahar.
		In recent months, officials in Zabul have appealed for help after a string of bomb blasts, attacks and kidnappings by the militants.
		Spotted among the Taliban commanders leading the militia bands in Zabul was Mullah Qadir, a prominent fighter who had escaped from a high security prison in Kandahar in October last year, Omar said.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-02-19-taliban-regrouping_x.htm (441 words)

	[ www.azadiradio.org ]
		The commander of the operation in Zabul, Brigadier General Haji Grani, said that 20 neo-Taliban fighters where killed and two of their bases in the Dawzi area of Daichopan were captured, Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press reported on 25 August.
		A spokesman for Zabul Province Governor Hafizullah Khan said that up to 50 neo-Taliban fighters were killed, but the U.S. military estimated the number at 14, the BBC reported on 25 August.
		Mulla Abdul Jabar, who has been appointed as the governor of Zabul Province by former Taliban regime leader Mulla Mohammad Omar, said on 25 August that only four of their fighters were killed in the operation, Reuters reported on 26 August.
	www.azadiradio.org /en/weeklyreport/2003/08/28.asp (2952 words)

	Afghanistan: Battle Rages Against Suspected Taliban Fighters
		Zabul's provincial security chief, Khalilullah Hotaki, told RFE/RL today that four government soldiers were killed and two were captured overnight when Taliban fighters ambushed a government checkpoint near Shajoi.
		Zabul security chief Hotaki told RFE/RL he has no doubt that coalition forces have been engaging Taliban fighters in Operation Mountain Viper.
		It said talks in four remote districts of Zabul Province were being led by Abdul Rehman Hotak.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2003/09/mil-030901-rferl-160608.htm (862 words)

	Afghanistan - Government forces lose control of seven districts in troubled southeast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Zabul, which neighbours Pakistan, is on the frontline of increasing attacks by Taliban fighters regrouping in southern Afghanistan and in Pakistani border regions.
		A powerful bomb went off Saturday at the headquarters of Zabul's governor but no-one was hurt in the explosion or in another blast at an arms depot.
		Zabul, which is adjacent to Paktika and Kandahar, was a former Taliban stronghold.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1018669/posts (929 words)

	US Marines kill 21 Taliban
		Zabul security commander Mohammed Ayob confirmed the major operation which was going on in Uruzgan and in the border regions and the mountainous valleys of Deh Chopan in Zabul.
		Uruzgan, Zabul and the southern province of Kandahar are adjacent to each other and the point at which they meet has been described by the US military as the "Taliban heartland" and is believed to host a permanent presence of fighters loyal to the ousted fundamentalist militia.
		Intelligence and military officials told AFP that the insurgents were loyal to one of the ousted Taliban's leaders, Mullah Dadullah, a close lieutenant of the movement's fugitive founder, Mullah Mohammed Omar.
	www.rediff.com /news/2004/jun/09afghan.htm (577 words)

	Dar Al Hayat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In Zabul province, a Turkish engineer and an Afghan guard were killed and a Turkish and Afghan national kidnapped last week.
		Hilferty said the Ministry of Interior suspected Taliban guerrillas were behind the attacks near the capital and in Zabul.
		Zabul governor Kheyal Mohamad Husseini said a big operation involving hundreds of Afghan soldiers had been launched to find the assailants.
	english.daralhayat.com /world_news/03-2004/20040308-20040308-29fc3e7a-c0a8-01ed-0065-2110b16ab4e4/story.html (1160 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Iran Drought: Support to Afghan refugees Appeal No. 19/02 Operations Update ...
		Approximately 80 percent of the target population are Afghan refugees living in non-camp settlements of Zabul and Zahedan, with the rest being Iranian population deprived of access to safe drinking water in the same areas.
		In Zabul, regular meetings with the local water department are being held to facilitate water collection and distribution.
		In Zabul, the chlorinated water is collected free of charge from two water outlets of the city's water pipeline and distributed in rural areas through seven distribution points.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/7bd770f4ce4074b085256cec005d97bd (2722 words)

	Taliban Kill 9 Afghans - US Launches Operation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Four policemen in Zabul province who were guarding a highway being rebuilt between the capital and the southern city of Kandahar were killed in a rebel attack late Sunday, the province's intelligence chief, Khalil Hotak, told Reuters.
		The week-long battle in Zabul made August the bloodiest month since the Taliban was toppled from power by U.S. air power and Afghan ground forces.
		He said the Zabul government was planning to send a delegation headed by local tribal chief Abdul Rahman Hotak to persuade residents in Dai Chopan not to give shelter to the Taliban.
	www.rense.com /general40/talibn.htm (500 words)

	U.S. invasion of Afghanistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Meanwhile, Taliban forces continued to remain in hiding in the rural regions of the four southern provinces that formed their heartland, Kandahar, Zabul, Helmand, and Uruzgan.
		As the summer continued, the attacks gradually increased in frequency in the "Taliban heartland." Dozens of Afghan government soldiers, non-governmental organization and humanitarian workers, and several U.S. soldiers died in the raids, ambushes, and rocket attacks.
		In addition to the guerilla attacks, Taliban fighters began building up their forces in the district of Dai Chopan, a district in Zabul province that also straddles Kandahar and Uruzgan and is at the very center of the Taliban heartland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/U.S._invasion_of_Afghanistan (6487 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Taliban reinforces troops in Zabul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Maulvi Faiz Allah, a senior Taliban commander involved in the fighting in Zabul, said the reinforcements had been deployed in Dai Chopan district to join up to 1000 others who have been fighting in the area for the last eight days.
		Zabul provincial intelligence chief Khalil Hotak said the AMF were now searching the Koh Larzab area of Dai Chopan, where he said Taliban fighters were also believed to be hiding in caves.
		The battle in Zabul helped make August 2003 the bloodiest month since the Taliban was toppled from power by US air power and Northern Alliance ground forces in late 2001.
	english.aljazeera.net /Archive/News/GlobalNews/2003_9/Taliban+reinforces+troops+in+Zabul.htm (429 words)

	ABC News: 64 Taliban-Led Rebels Killed in Fighting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In Zabul province, 44 rebels were killed in one of the deadliest clashes since the fall of the Taliban.
		The insurgents killed in Zabul were a "mix of Taliban and anti-coalition militants," and officials were still trying to determine whether foreigners were among them, U.S. spokesman Col. James Yonts told The Associated Press.
		A spokesman for the governor of Zabul, Ali Khali, told AP that "important documents" found on the dead militants showed two were Chechens and one was Pakistani.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=731459 (405 words)

	Institute for War and Peace Reporting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		While everyone agrees that Zabul is one of the most troubled provinces in the country, no one is willing to take responsibility.
		The troubled southeast province of Zabul is one of the poorest, least developed and most dangerous areas of the country.
		Now on its third governor in less than a year, the province is considered so unstable that even humanitarian organisations do not dare to venture in the area, especially after workers on a United States-funded road construction project came under attack from anti-government forces.
	www.iwpr.net /index.pl?archive/arr/arr_200402_106_1_eng.txt (946 words)

	U.S., Afghan forces recapture mountain pass after days of fighting, provincial official says
		U.S. and Afghan soldiers have been hunting Taliban guerrillas in Zabul province for the past three days, and province's governor said Wednesday that around 40 Taliban and three Afghan soldiers were killed in the campaign.
		Zabul Hafizullah Hashami said Afghan forces took over two former Taliban camps in the district at Dozai, and that the heaviest fighting of the campaign -- at Dai Chupan -- was over, national television reported.
		Haji Granai, the military commander of the southern city of Kandahar, which is in the province adjacent to Zabul, said villagers in Dai Chupan told him they saw about 100 rebels retreating to the nearby Torzai mountains along with seven bodies.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/08/27/international0347EDT0458.DTL (514 words)

	Eight Civilians Killed in U.S. Strike on Taliban
		In a separate incident, Taliban guerrillas killed a district police chief in the southern province of Kandahar, underscoring a revival of violence recently in a country that has seen mostly strife for the past quarter-century.
		It was unclear if the guerrillas had been in the same tent, but the governor of Zabul province, Hafizullah, said on BBC radio that Taliban fighters were known to have taken refuge with nomads in the area in the past.
		The strikes were part of "Operation Mountain Viper," launched in August in response to the presence of hundreds of Taliban guerrillas and their allies in Uruzgan and Zabul provinces.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article4784.htm (661 words)

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