Qari Ahmadullah
{{Short description|Afghan militant and politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Qari Ahmadullah
| image =
| caption =
| native_name = قاری احمدالله
| native_name_lang = ar
| birth_name =
| birth_date = 1975
| birth_place = Qarabagh, Ghazni
| disappeared_date = 2002 (aged 22–33)
| disappeared_place = Zadran
| nationality = Afghan
| occupation = Politician, member of Taliban
| known = being Taliban's first interior minister in 1996
}}
Qari Ahmadullah ({{langx|ps|قاری احمدالله}}) (born 1975) was an Afghan militant and the Taliban's Minister of Security (or Intelligence Service) in 1996.{{cite book |url=http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32007R0969|author=Official Journal of the European Union|title=COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 969/2007 of 17 August 2007 amending for the 83rd time Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities associated with Usama bin Laden, the Al-Qaida network and the Taliban, and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 467/2001|publisher=published by the Official Journal of the European Union 17 August 2007|access-date=30 October 2015}}{{cite news
| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1739244.stm
| title=Taleban spy chief 'killed in raid'
| date=3 January 2002
| publisher=BBC News
| access-date=15 July 2009
{{cite news
| url=http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1228/p4s1-wosc.html
| title=Al Qaeda planning next phase
| date=28 December 2001
| newspaper=The Christian Science Monitor
| access-date=15 July 2009
}}
He was responsible for bribing anti-Taliban commanders to desert the ranks of the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan opposition. Ahmadullah also commanded troops fighting on frontlines in the north of the country against the Northern Alliance.
Background
According to the Official Journal of the European Union and the testimony of Abdul Haq Wasiq, before his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, Ahmadullah was the Minister of Security and also Minister of Intelligence and Governor of Takhar Province. Abdul Haq described Ahmadullah as an uneducated man.[{{DoD detainees ARB|Set_16_1363-1446.pdf}} Summarized transcripts (.pdf)], from Abdul Haq Wasiq's Combatant Status Review Tribunal – pp. 13–24
Supposed death
He was supposedly killed in the opening days of 2002 in the American airstrike against Mullah Taha's house in Zadran (though the Pentagon was unable to confirm Ahmadullah's death).{{cite news| url=http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/central/01/02/ret.taliban.intelligence/index.html | publisher=CNN| title=Taliban intelligence head reported killed in U.S. bombing | date=2 January 2002 | access-date=22 May 2010}}{{cite book |last1=Crumpton |first1=Henry A. |title=The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA’s Clandestine Service |date=2012 |publisher=Penguin Press |isbn=1594203342 |pages=255}} 12 years after the incident, an investigation by Harper's Weekly alleged Ahmadullah was alive.{{Cite journal |last = Mashal |first = Mujib |title = The Pious Spy: A Taliban intelligence chief's death and resurrection |url = http://harpers.org/archive/2014/01/the-pious-spy/ |journal = Harper's Magazine |date = January 2014 |issue = January 2014 }}
See also
References
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Category:2000s missing person cases
Category:Governors of Takhar Province
Category:Missing Afghan people
Category:Missing person cases in Afghanistan
Category:Taliban government ministers of Afghanistan
Category:Interior ministers of Afghanistan
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