Said Tayeb Jawad

Said Tayeb Jawad

male
Washington DC, Politician of Afghanistan, afghan, politician, His Excellency Said T. Jawad
Said Tayeb Jawad is the current Afghanistan's Ambassador to the United States. He was appointed by President Hamid Karzai on December 4, 2003....
Abdul Matin

Abdul Matin

male
Prisoner of the Taliban, afghan, Jed Rakoff, court order, Combatant Status Review Tribunal, Guantanamo Bay detainment camp
Abdul Matin is an Afghani held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. Matin's detainee ID number...
Mohammed Ibrahim

Mohammed Ibrahim

male
afghan, Lieutenant colonel, taliban, Politician of Afghanistan, renegade taliban leader, Peace through Strength
Mohammed Ibrahim (?-July 5 2006) was an Afghan who rose to a leadership role in the Taliban, renounced the Taliban in 2006. Accounts differ as to...
Mohammed Ibrahim

Mohammed Ibrahim

male
afghan, kabul, taliban, department store, politician, Guantanamo captive
Guantanamo captive Mohamed Rahim requested the testimony of a man named Mohammed Ibrahim. According to Rahim he had worked as a buyer for a Kabul...
Brent Bennett

Brent Bennett

male
Abdul Baset Bakhtyari, Counterterrorism, security contractors, covert operative, taliban, United States Army soldier…afghan
Brent Bennett is a former U.S. Army paratrooper who was convicted by an Afghan court on September 15, 2004 for participating in torture and...
Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil

Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil

male
afghan, Wakil Ahmad Mutawakil, Afgan Northern Alliance, Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, American captives in Bagram, Politician of Afghanistan…Afghan Foreign Minister
Wakil Ahmad Mutawakil (born circa 1971) was the last Foreign Minister in the Taliban government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Prior to...

Hangama

female
singer, Demographics of Afghanistan, musician, afghan, emigration, Tajikestan
Hangama is a popular Afghan singer. She currently lives an exile in Canada where from she continues her music career. Before her emigration from...
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi

Sibghatullah Mojaddedi

male
afghan, President of the Islamic State of Afghanistan, loya jirga, Mujahideen, President of Afghanistan, Imams…Afghan National Liberation Front
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (born 1926) served as the first President of the Islamic State of Afghanistan after the fall of the communist regime in...
Siddiq Barmak

Siddiq Barmak

male
afghan, persian, Persian-language film director, Panjshir, Afghanistani, At Five in the Afternoon…Afghan Children Education Movement
Siddiq Barmak (Born September 7, 1962 in Panjshir, Afghanistan) is an Afghan film director and producer. He received an M.A degree in cinema...
Mahmud Abouhalima

Mahmud Abouhalima

male, 50 years old
Al-Qaeda member, Alexandria University, imprisoned for terrorism, Political asylum, Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, Mujahideen…afghan
Mahmud Abouhalima is a convicted perpetrator of the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing. His red hair earned him the nickname Mahmud the Red. Born to a...