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2021-03-22 Afghanistan
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Who is Alipoor, aka Commander Shamshir?
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Background to yesterday’s report that Alipur’s men shot down an Afghan National Army helicopter in Behsud district of Maidan Wardak.
... "Commander Sword" ... --and why has he established an illegal gang in his province? Where did the rift between his militia and government forces begin?
Alipoor is a commander in Behsud district of Maidan Wardak province, whose gunnies--according to the Defense Ministry--shot down a government security forces helicopter around midnight on Thursday.
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In a recent interview with local media outlets, Alipoor said that he is a commander of the Hizb-e-Wahdat-e-Islami Afghanistan (the Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan)
...Hezb-e Wahdat for short, founded as one of the Shiite anti-Soviet mujahedin groups in the 1980s with some support from Iran, eventually becoming the movement of the Hazera. But it was defeated militarily by the Taliban, then fell apart as a political movement a decade ago... faction of Abdul Ali Mazari; however, in 2004, when the government started the disarmament process, he handed over his weapons to the government and started working as a driver on the Kabul-Behsud route.
He said that after the attack of Kochis on people’s houses in Behsud district, and following the killing of people by the Taliban
 ...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
in 2014, he established a resistance group in Behsud,
...his Resistance Front was said to originally number 150 fighters... but reportedly the activities of "Commander Shamshir" have expanded to Ghor, Daikundi, Ghazni, Uruzgan, Sar-e-Pul
...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone...
and Bamiyan
...a place in Afghanistan that used to have some historically interesting statues of the Buddha carved into a mountainside. Then the holy men showed up and now all they have is some big holes...
province.
"The Maidan valley in Maidan Wardak province was named the valley of death. What should we have done? What should the people have done? The government was so incapable that it could not support its own checkpoints for 48 hours. The checkpoints were not supplied until after all were killed," Alipoor said in an interview with a local media outlet in Bamiyan 10 months ago.
Alipoor has not provided exact figures on the number of men in his militia, but one of his fighters said that he has at least 2,000 gunnies in Behsud, some of whom have even sold all their belongings to buy a gun and join the commander.
"We were forced (to take up arms). Hazara
...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets...
s were taken hostage and were killed on Highway No. 2 in the Maidan valley on a daily basis," said Reza, Alipoor’s fighter.
"I sold my cattle for 65,000 afghanis to buy this Kalashnikov rifle," another fighter said.
On December 5, 2018, the National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
, the country’s intelligence agency, arrested Alipoor on charges of having illegal gunnies and performing illegal activities such as extortion and attacking security force members. His arrest was followed by five days of violent mostly peaceful protest by his supporters, and, ultimately, he was released with the mediation of Second Vice President Mohammad Sarwar Danesh, which resulted in an agreement. He returned to Behsud after his release.
"If they want to defend their country, they should join the Afghan security and defense forces like other Afghans who are sacrificing their lives every day from Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
to Badakhshan," National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib said at presser in Kabul on Saturday.
In another incident of fighting between special forces and Alipoor’s militia in February, at least 12 people were killed and 25 more were maimed.
The most recent incident occurred last week when Alipoor's militia, according to the Defense Ministry, downed an army helicopter by targeting it with a laser-guided weapon in Behsud district immediately after it took off from a base in the district shortly around midnight on Thursday. 
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