Mullah Abdul Samad Khaksar (1960 – 14 January 2006),[1] also referred to as Mohammad Khaksar[2] in some news reports, served as Minister or Deputy Minister of Interior for Afghanistan under the Taliban government.[3]
He was born around 1960 in Kandahar.[citation needed] He received a madrasa education and fought under Hezbi Islami commander Mawlawi Abdul Raziq Muhammad Hasan in Kandahar during the 1980s.[citation needed]
He was the Taliban Intelligence Minister from 1994 to 1996 and was later appointed as deputy Interior Minister from 1996 to 2001 during the Taliban rule.[4] Khaksar became unhappy with al-Qaeda's influence in Afghanistan.[2] He reportedly met Osama bin Laden in 1998 following US cruise missile strikes on Al-Qaeda bases and told him to leave Afghanistan.[4] He met with US officials in Peshawar in 1999, offering them help in dealing with bin Laden, but his offer was turned down.[4] He also became an informant for the Northern Alliance.[2]
He renounced the Taliban following the US-led invasion in 2001 and encouraged people to support the Northern Alliance.[4] Abdul Samad became a vocal critic of the Taliban and Al Qaeda. In September 2005 he unsuccessfully ran for Afghanistan's new parliament.[2][5]
Abdul Samad was shot and killed while carrying groceries home with two[1] of his five children in Kandahar on 14 January 2006, by two men riding a motorcycle.[2] The Taliban claimed responsibility for the killing,[5] with spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousuf Ahmadi saying that he was a traitor[1] whom they had been hunting for a long time.[2]
He was one of five individuals the United Nations officially removed from its sanction list in 2010.[6] The four other men were: Abdul Salam Zaeef, former ambassador to Pakistan; Abdul Satar Paktin, formerly the Taliban's Deputy Minister of Public Health; Muhammad Islam Mohammadi, former Governor of Bamiyan Province; and Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad Awrang, former envoy to the United Nations. Two of the other men were also deceased.[citation needed]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gall, Carlotta (15 January 2006). "Airstrike by U.S. Draws Protests From Pakistanis". https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/world/asia/airstrike-by-us-draws-protests-from-pakistanis.html.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Witte, Griff (15 January 2006). "Taliban Defector Is Assassinated: Former Intelligence Chief Secretly Turned to U.S. in 1999". https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/14/AR2006011400983.html. Retrieved 2006-01-15.
- ↑ John R. Bolton (2003). "Denied Persons Pursuant to UN Security Council Resolution". United States Federal Registry. http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Denied_Persons_Pursuant_to_UN_Security_Council_Resolution&action=history.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Strick van Linschoten, Alex; Kuehn, Felix (2012). An Enemy We Created: The Myth of the Taliban-Al Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan. Oxford University Press. p. 477. ISBN 9780199977239. https://www.google.co.nz/books/edition/An_Enemy_We_Created/PpqKLn7eugEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22An+Enemy+We+Created%22+Khairullah&pg=PA477. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Sand, Benjamin (15 January 2006). "Gunmen Assassinate Taleban Defector". Voice of America, Islamabad.
- ↑ "Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee Approves Deletion of Five Entries from Consolidated List". United Nations. 2010-07-30. https://www.un.org/press/en/2010/sc9998.doc.htm. "On 29 July 2010, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the deletion (de-listing) of the five entries specified below from its Consolidated List."
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