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Taliban appears to be regrouped and well-funded
Christian Science Monitor
Affirms Taliban's Resurgence
uploaded 09 May 2003
Source: CS Monitor
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Only factual aspects are retained.]
A new hierarchy of leaders has emerged across
parts of
Afghanistan.................
Justice Salam is back, talking to a foreign
reporter for the first time
since the Taliban fell a year and a half ago, but
he says the Taliban are
back as well. Regrouped, rearmed, and
well-funded, they are ready to carry on
guerrilla war as long as it takes to expel
US
forces from Afghanistan.
It's what Afghans want, "because during the
Taliban times, there was peace
and security," says Salam, who retains the long
gray beard that marks him as
a devout Muslim.
Across the southern portions of Afghanistan,
where the Taliban found strong
support among the rural conservative Pashtun
populations, there are definite
signs that the Taliban are making a comeback.
Some Taliban leaders, such as
Salam and Taliban commander Mullah Muhammad Hasan
Rehmani, are giving
interviews once again. Others are dropping
leaflets, calling for a
jihad
against US forces and against the new Afghan
government of President Hamid
Karzai. Still others are increasingly willing to
discuss the secret hierarchy
that is directing this jihad and the sources of
funding that keep it running.
It's this confidence that undercuts recent
assertions by US Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld that major combat operations in
Afghanistan are over, and
that the focus will now be on reconstruction.
"The general idea that was
being put forward by Secretary of Defense
Rumsfeld last week, is that the
Afghan military, backed by US forces, is engaged
in mopping up some remnants
of the past
The reorganized Taliban are mounting increasingly
brazen attacks on Afghan
soil. In Zabul Province last month, for instance,
Taliban forces took control
of two remote districts near the
Pakistani
border
for nearly a week. Afghan
military forces, backed up by US Special Forces
and helicopter gunships,
eventually dislodged the Taliban fighters.
New hierarchy emerges
Taliban sources in Pakistan and Afghan
intelligence sources say that the
Taliban now has a recognizable hierarchy of
leaders - some operating from
Afghanistan and some from the Pashtun tribal
areas of Pakistan's volatile
Northwest Frontier Province.
At the top of the military command structure is
Mullah Beradar, who hails
from Deh Rawood in Urozgan, the home village of
former supreme Taliban leader
Mullah Omar. Underneath Mullah Beradar are a
number of Taliban commanders and
religious leaders assigned to different
territories.
The most active region - from Nimroz Province to
Helmand, on up to Kandahar,
Zabul, and north to Urozgan - is under the joint
control of Beradar's top
three deputies. Akhtar Usmani was the Taliban
corps commander in Kandahar.
Mullah Abdur Razzaq was the Taliban Interior
Minister. And Mullah Dadullah
was the military chief in the northern city of
Kunduz, on the front lines
against the Northern Alliance when the Taliban
lines crumbled.
The Taliban has commanders all across the
country. In Paktia, Paktika, Khost,
and Ghazni provinces, Mullah Saifur Rehman is in
charge. He was the commander
of Taliban forces during the US coalition's
indecisive battle, Operation
Anaconda, in the Shah-e Kot mountains.
In Nangrahar, Laghman, and Konar provinces, the
Taliban's former deputy prime
minister, Mullah Kabir, is supreme commander,
working along with activists of
the Hizb-i Islami.
Anwar Panghaz commands the Taliban guerrillas
operating in the provinces that
ring the capital city of Kabul - Parwan, Kapisa,
Kabul, Wardak, and Logar.
Afghan security officials say that operations
there have been light in recent
months.
Salam, who lives in his native Logar Province,
neighboring Kabul, refuses to
talk about his own activities in the Taliban
today. Days after the Taliban
fell, Northern Alliance troops surrounded his
home, but eventually left
without explanation. Salam has remained free
since and admits that he
maintains contact with the Taliban movement.
Salam says Afghans would prefer to rely on their
own resources, even if the
jihad takes years or decades. "We don't want the
interference of foreign
countries like Russia, Iran, and Pakistan. We
want Afghan people to be united
and select their leaders. We want Afghanistan to
solve its problems through
discussion."
But there is no use discussing peace when the
US-led military coalition
continues to patrol Afghan territory, he adds.
"The last loya jirga [national
council] was done by force," says Salam, pointing
a finger to his head like a
gun. "But if there was a real loya jirga, and the
people who were appointed
were good, then I would work with my head and
feet and heart for my country."
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HIZBUT TAHRIR FACES TORTURE UNDER UZBEKISTAN'S
STALINIST REGIME
U.S. SUPPORTS STALINISTS BECAUSE THEY ARE
ANTI-ISLAM
uploaded 09 May 2003
Source: BBC Monitoring
Uzbekistan: four jailed on charges of links to
Hizb-ut-Tahrir
Text of report
by banned Muslim Uzbekistan web site on 6 May
According to a report by Radio Liberty, sentences
were recently passed on
four people charged with involvement in Hezb-e
Tahrir banned religious
movement . According to the report, Rasul
Ismoilov, 27, and Umrzoq Gadoyev,
28, were given 10 years in jail. Bahriddin
Kholiqov, 24, was sentenced to six
years in prison. One more accused, Nihoyat
Karimova, 28, a mother of four,
was put on probation for three years.
On 16 January 2003 Bahriddin Kholiqov, Umrzoq
Gadoyev, Sirojiddin Ahmedov,
Samariddin Ahmedov, Jamshid Khudoyberdiyev, Akmal
Sharipov, Rasul Ismoilov
and Nihoyat Karimova were detained by regional
security service officers.
Five of them were set free on 24 January.
Sharofiddin Kholiqov, who is a relative of one of
those accused, Bahriddin
Kholiqov, said the investigation had been
conducted without lawyers present.
The lawyers recommended by the defendants'
relatives were rejected by the
court in contravention of the law. In an
interview with a radio
correspondent, he said that the defendants had
been subjected to torture
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ATTACK ON
ISRAEL
Is a CRIME AGAINST U.K.?
Women in Mujahid's family Family Brought to Court
[Resistance to occupation is an internationally
recognized right. Is Blair's
England the same as Israel?]
May 09, 2003
Source:
Albawaba.com
Three relatives of a Briton wanted for a suicide
bomb attack in Israel are
appearing Friday in a London court charged in
connection with the blast.
According to Sky News, the wife, brother and
sister of Omar Sharif, 27, were
arrested in Derbyshire under anti-terrorism laws.
Israeli authorities said Sharif, from Derby, is
on the run after trying to
blow himself up in the attack on a Tel Aviv bar
about ten days ago. Three
people were killed when another Briton, Asif
Muhammad Hanif, 21, from London,
detonated explosives strapped to his body.
Sharif's wife Tahari Shad Tabussum, 27, brother
Zahid Hussain Sharif, 46, and
sister Paveen Sharif, 35, are appearing at Bow
Street magistrates court. They
are charged under anti-terrorist laws relating to
the failure to disclose
information about acts of "terrorism."
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