Qari Ahmadullah
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Qari Ahmadullah was an Afghan
Afghanistan
Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

 politician and the Taliban's first interior minister in 1996.

He was also responsible for bribing anti-Taliban commanders to desert the ranks of the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan
United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan
The United Islamic Front , known in the West and Pakistan as the Northern Alliance, was a military-political umbrella organization created by the Islamic State of Afghanistan in 1996 under the leadership of Defense Minister Ahmad Shah Massoud...

 opposition. Ahmadullah also commanded troops fighting on frontlines in the north of the country against the Northern Alliance.

According to the testimony of Abdul Haq Wasiq
Abdul Haq Wasiq
Abdul Haq Wasiq is a citizen of Afghanistan currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 4.American intelligence analysts estimate that he was born in 1971, in Ghazni, Afghanistan....

, before his Combatant Status Review Tribunal
Combatant Status Review Tribunal
The Combatant Status Review Tribunals were a set of tribunals for confirming whether detainees held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp had been correctly designated as "enemy combatants". The CSRTs were established July 7, 2004 by order of U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense...

, Ahmadullah was the Minister of Intelligence, and the Governor of Takhar Province
Takhar Province
Takhār is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It was established in 1964 when Qataghan Province was divided into three provinces: Baghlan, Kunduz and Takhar. It is in the north-east of the country. Its capital is Taloqan. Its salt mines are one of Afghanistan's major mineral resources...

. Abdul Haq described Ahmadullah as an uneducated man.

He was killed in the opening days of 2002, in the American airstrike against Mullah Taha's house in Zadran.
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