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Our host eventually discussed a certain Maulvi Jalani, who had entered into an informal alliance with Jalalludin Haqqani, the former mujahideen leader in Paktia and Khost, and a man associated with Saudi Wahhabi extremists like Osama bin Laden.
Imperial Grunts 2005
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Our host eventually discussed a certain Maulvi Jalani, who had entered into an informal alliance with Jalalludin Haqqani, the former mujahideen leader in Paktia and Khost, and a man associated with Saudi Wahhabi extremists like Osama bin Laden.
Imperial Grunts 2005
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The African National Congress takes this opportunity to salute the fallen gallant freedom fighter, Comrade Ismail Ahmed "Maulvi"
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The African National Congress takes this opportunity to salute the fallen gallant freedom fighter, Comrade Ismail Ahmed "Maulvi" Cachalia, who has passed away at the age of 94.
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Senior Taliban official Maulvi Faqir Mohammad has named himself acting head of the Pakistani Taliban, a close relative of Mohammad and local Taliban spokesmen in Pakistan's federally administered tribal areas told CNN Wednesday.
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Maulvi Abdulaziz Mujahed, an imam at Kabul's Takbir mosque who served as chairman of the Kabul provincial council in 2008 to 2009, said in a recent interview that the Sept. 11 attacks were a Jewish conspiracy, a view he says was reinforced by his 2009 visit to New York's Ground Zero.
Many Afghans Shrug at 'This Event Foreigners Call 9/11' Yaroslav Trofimov 2011
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"It's nonsense that the Taliban are against women's education," the local insurgent commander, Maulvi Darwish, says in a phone interview.
Emboldened Taliban Try to Sell Softer Image Yaroslav Trofimov 2012
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As the Americans blasted Tora Bora with bunker-busting bombs, bin Laden escaped with the help of lieutenants for a local warlord, Maulvi Yunus Khalis, who had fought with bin Laden against the Red Army, according to officials including Michael Scheuer, former CIA pointman in the hunt for the al-Qaida chief.
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KABUL—When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan in the 1990s, Maulvi Qalamuddin headed the Committee to Protect Virtue and Prevent Vice, the religious police that shut down girls' schools, beat up men with insufficiently long beards and arrested those in possession of music or video tapes.
Emboldened Taliban Try to Sell Softer Image Yaroslav Trofimov 2012
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"There are some groups in Karzai's government that disobey government guidelines," said Maulvi Darwish, a Taliban commander in Logar province in eastern Afghanistan.
Taliban Commanders Endorse U.S. Talks Habib Khan Totakhil 2012
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