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Tahriq-i Taliban [ID 701]

Student Movement Founded 1994 assumedly by Mullah Rabbani, lead-managed by Interior Minister of Pakistan, Babar Chairman: unclear: formally Mullah Muhammad Omar until April 2001, de facto Mullah Muhammad Omar till December 2001 Taliban-press-organ: “Dharb-i Mumin” Members: Sunnitic Pashtuns: 1. Mujaheddin of “Harakat” as crack troop; 2. Refugees from camps in Pakistan resp. Taliban from Deoband-Madaris ibid; 3. defected “vocational Mujaheddin” from different Sunnitic parties; 4. mercenaries from other Islamic countries, especially Chechnya, Saudi-Arabia and Pakistan Region: tribal area of the Ghilzai between Kandahar and Kabul, later on all Pashtun areas, at least the Taliban-militants do not encounter much resistance

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