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Afghan promise. (Scan).(new Afghan government official Abdullah Abdullah on rebuilding Afghanistan)(Interview)
Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan's foreign minister, is one of his troubled homeland's brightest lights. A medical doctor by training, he joined Ahmad Shah Massoud's mujahedin fighters against both the Soviets and the Taliban. As the Taliban pushed back Massoud's Northern Alliance in the 1990s, Abdullah emerged as one of the coalition's most important spokesmen and was among Massoud's closest advisers.
Before September 11 he was doomed to play Cassandra, wandering the world's capitals to warn mostly deaf ears of the dangers posed by the Taliban and al-Qaeda. During a recent visit to Washington he gave an exclusive interview to TAE senior editor Eli Lehrer and intern Ned Andrews.
TAE: There was a close correlation between the September 9 assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, and the September 11 attacks on the United States. Is there any hard evidence linking the two events?
ABDULLAH: The links between some of the assassins and al-Qaeda are well known. A few people have been arrested in connection with it, and the investigations are continuing.
TAE: What is Afghanistan's view of the escalating violence in Israel?
ABDULLAH: There is a conflict there that has deep roots. That conflict has to be solved through peaceful means: Israel has the right to a state and its security, and the rights of Palestinians to a state and security must be protected as well. That's how the conflict could be resolved. Having been involved in a conflict for so many years in Afghanistan, I am confident that unless the root causes of the conflict are addressed, other methods will not work.
TAE: Do you believe that Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar Mohammad are still alive?
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News December 15, 2001 700+ words
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...armed opposition to Afghanistan's ruling Taliban...also known as the Northern Alliance, has thrust itself...concentration camp," says Afghanistan expert Thomas Gouttierre...seen as putting the Northern Alliance back in power...nation-building" in Afghanistan if the Taliban ...
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