Burhanuddin Rabbani

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http://complexoperations.org/cowiki/Burhanuddin_Rabbani
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Burhanuddin Rabbani was a President of Afghanistan late in the 20th Century, prior to the Taliban regime.^[1] Following the Taliban's ouster he has filled a variety of senior roles. Most recently, in September 2010, President Hamid Karzai appointed him to the seventy member Afghanistan High Peace Council. The other council members elected him to chair the council.
In August 2011 Burhanuddin asserted that foreign intelligence agencies, operating in Afghanistan, had been behind the recent assassinations of some Afghan leaders.^[2] He claimed the foreign intelligence agencies were assassinating the leaders, while trying to make it look like the Taliban had been behind the assassinations, in order to damage the Taliban's reputation.
In September 2011 Burhanuddin denounced the Taliban, asserting they were defaming the reputation of real Islamic clerics, by claiming Islam justified their use of suicide bombers.^[3] Burhanuddin contrasted Mawlana Jalaluddin Balkhi, Abu Ali Sina, and Abu Rehan Beruni who he characterized as religious scholars worthy of respect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burhanuddin_Rabbani
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Burhanuddin Rabbani (Persian: برهان الدين رباني - Burhânuddîn Rabbânî) (20 September 1940 – 20 September 2011) was President of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996 and for a second term in 2001.^[1]
Rabbani was the leader of Jamiat-e Islami Afghanistan (Islamic Society of Afghanistan). He also served as the political head of the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan (UIFSA), an alliance of various political groups who fought against Taliban rule in Afghanistan. He served as President from 1992–1996 until he was forced to leave Kabul because of the Taliban takeover of the city. His government was recognized by many countries, as well as the United Nations. He was also the head of Afghanistan National Front (known in the media as United National Front), the largest political opposition to Hamid Karzai's government.
On September 20, 2011, Rabbani was assassinated by a suicide bomber entering the former President's home in Kabul.^[2]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/8777492/Burhanuddin-Rabbani-assassination-who-benefits.html
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Burhanuddin Rabbani assassination: who benefits?

With his long white beard and scholarly demeanour, Burhanuddin Rabbani possessed the gravitas needed to deliver a credible peace to his blighted land.

http://news.antiwar.com/2009/10/04/galbraith-was-ordered-to-cover-up-karzai-fraud/
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Galbraith Was Ordered to Cover Up Karzai Fraud

Fired Envoy: One in Three Karzai Votes Was Fraudulent

by Jason Ditz, October 04, 2009

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Former US Ambassador Peter Galbraith, who was fired from his role as second ranking official at the UN Mission to Afghanistan last week, says he was ordered by mission chief Kai Eide to cover up the extent of the voter fraud by Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20011023/world.htm
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http://en.rian.ru/trend/Karzai_Moscow/
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21:28   21/01/2011  

Russian state-controlled power trader Inter RAO is ready to invest $500 million in a project to supply electricity to Afghanistan, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday during a meeting with Afghan leader Hamid Karzai.

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/afghanistan1.html
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1) Hamid Karzai

Born: 1957
Birthplace: Afghanistan

Karzai was named to head an interim Afghan government on Dec. 5, 2001, after eight days of discussions held in Bonn, Germany, between various Afghan factions. He was chosen partly based on his modern political skills and his traditional credentials. Karzai, who attended college in India, speaks fluent English and enjoys strong support from the West. He has also been embraced by a broad spectrum of factions in Afghanistan, where ethnic and tribal identity dominates politics. An ethnic Pashtun from the city of Kandahar, Karzai is leader of the powerful 500,000-strong Populzai clan, which has supplied Afghanistan's kings since 1747. Karzai is also a close ally of the former king, Muhammad Zahir Shah. Even many Taliban supporters, most of whom were ethnic Pashtun centered in Kandahar, found Karzai preferable to Northern Alliance leaders who were ethnic Tajiks or Uzbeks. Karzai won the 2004 presidential election. In 2009, he was re-elected to a second five-year-term amid controversy that the elections were fraudulent.

During the fight against the Soviet invasion of the 1980s, Karzai provided money and arms to the mujahideen. He then served as deputy foreign minister in the post-Soviet government of Burhanuddin Rabbani, which was overthrown by the Taliban in 1996. At first a Taliban supporter, Karzai gradually came to oppose their rigid policies and distrust their connections to Pakistani intelligence and Arab Islamic radicals. When the Taliban asked Karzai to serve as ambassador to the United Nations, he refused.

During the American-led campaign against the Taliban in the fall 2001, Karzai was instrumental in convincing a number of Pashtun tribes to end their support for the Taliban. In 1999 Karzai married a doctor named Zenat. They have no children.

Current President of Afghanistan

2) Burhanuddin Rabbani

Born: 1940
Birthplace: Faizabad, north Afghanistan

After graduating from Kabul University in 1963, Rabbani received a graduate degree in Islamic philosophy from Cairo's prestigious al-Azhar University, in 1968. He then taught theology at Kabul University. A Tajik, Rabbani joined the fight against the Soviets, becoming leader of one of the five major factions of the mujahideen. After the fall of the communist regime in 1992, Rabbani became president of the interim government that lasted until 1996, when it was overthrown by the Taliban. He has since joined forces with other former mujahideen and continues to lead a government in exile, recognized by the United Nations and most other nations as the legitimate rulers of Afghanistan.

fight against the Soviets

Afghanistan War

Afghanistan War, 1978–92, conflict between anti-Communist Muslim Afghan guerrillas (mujahidin) and Afghan government and Soviet forces. The conflict had its origins in the 1978 coup that overthrew Afghan president Sardar Muhammad Daud Khan, who had come to power by ousting the king in 1973. The president was assassinated and a pro-Soviet Communist government under Noor Mohammed Taraki was established. In 1979 another coup, which brought Hafizullah Amin to power, provoked an invasion (Dec., 1979) by Soviet forces and the installation of Babrak Karmal as president.

The Soviet invasion, which sparked Afghan resistance, intially involved an estimated 30,000 troops, a force that ultimately grew to 100,000. The mujahidin were supported by aid from the United States, China, and Saudi Arabia, channeled through Pakistan, and from Iran. Although the USSR had superior weapons and complete air control, the rebels successfully eluded them. The conflict largely settled into a stalemate, with Soviet and government forces controlling the urban areas, and the Afghan guerrillas operating fairly freely in mountainous rural regions. As the war progressed, the rebels improved their organization and tactics and began using imported and captured weapons, including U.S. antiaircraft missiles, to neutralize the technological advantages of the USSR.

In 1986, Karmal resigned and Mohammad Najibullah became head of a collective leadership. In Feb., 1988, President Mikhail Gorbachev announced the withdrawal of USSR troops, which was completed one year later. Soviet citizens had become increasingly discontented with the war, which dragged on without success but with continuing casualties. In the spring of 1992, Najibullah's government collapsed and, after 14 years of rule by the People's Democratic party, Kabul fell to a coalition of mujahidin under the military leadership of Ahmed Shah Massoud.

The war left Afghanistan with severe political, economic, and ecological problems. More than 1 million Afghans died in the war and 5 million became refugees in neighboring countries. In addition, 15,000 Soviet soldiers were killed and 37,000 wounded. Economic production was drastically curtailed, and much of the land laid waste. At the end of the war more than 5 million mines saturated approximately 2% of the country, where they will pose a threat to human and animal life well into the 21st cent. The disparate guerrilla forces that had triumphed proved unable to unite, and Afghanistan became divided into spheres of control. These political divisions set the stage for the rise of the Taliban later in the decade.

See Afghanistan.

See E. Girardet, Afghanistan (1986); A. H. Cordesman and A. R. Wagner, Lessons of Modern War, Vol. III (1989); A. Saikal and W. Maley, ed., The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan (1989); A. Hyman, Afghanistan under Soviet Domination, 1964–1991 (3d ed. 1992).

http://www.steelguru.com/russian_news/Inter_RAO_board_to_elect_head_again_on_Sept_27/225557.html
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Interfax reported that the board of directors at Russian Energy Company Inter RAO UES which was elected on August 31 will elect its chairman again on September 27.

The board will also set up committees and look at various deals, although the nature of the deals has not been disclosed.

The Inter RAO board was elected at an extraordinary shareholders meeting on August 31. Shareholders made just one change from the board they elected at their AGM Federal Grid Company UES Chairman Mr Oleg Budargin took over the seat of Rosimuschestvo Chairman Mr Yury Petrov.

Inter RAO announced on August 30 that Russian Regional Development Bank President Mr Grigory Kurtser had been appointed board chairman. The subsequent inclusion of Budargin to the board requires the board chairman to be re-confirmed.

The Inter RAO board consists of

Mr Kurtser, Budargin, Norilsk Nickel Chairman Mr Vladimir Strazhalkovskiy, Russian Technology Deputy General Director Mr Dmitry Shugaev, Gazprom Management Board Member Mr Kirill Seleznev Gazprom Energoholding General Director Mr Denis Fedorov, Inter RAO Chairman Mr Boris Kovalchuk, Rosatom Deputy General Director Mr Alexander Lokshin, RusHydro Chairman Mr Yevgeny Dod Vnesheconombank Chairman Mr Vladimir Dmitriev and United Energy Company General Director Mr Vyacheslav Kravchenko.

Inter RAO owns and manages power plants with combined capacity of around 28 GW as well as various energy distribution companies. The company holds the monopoly for electricity imports and exports in Russia.