...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier..., escaped unhurt from an attack that killed one of his bodyguards on Saturday, dodging death for the second time since returning from exile last year.
Attackers ambushed Dostum’s convoy on the way from Mazar-e-Sharif, a city in Balkh province, to Jawzjan province in northern Afghanistan, said Bashir Ahmad Tayenj, front man for Dostum’s Junbish Party. Two other bodyguards were maimed.
Dostum was aware of a planned attack but decided to travel anyway, the front man added.
"Let them try. Prepare the shipping containers"
The Taliban
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grabbed credit for the liquidation attempt, which comes eight months after Dostum avoided injury in a suicide kaboom at Kabul airport. In a tweet, the hard boy group’s front man, Zabihullah Mujahid, said four guards were killed and six maimed in the attack.
Last summer’s bombing, which was claimed by ISIS, took place as Dostum returned home from more than a year in exile in
...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor....
Less than a year since his return, the general remains a significant, if polarising, political figure. His Junbish Party is supported mainly by his fellow ethnic Uzbeks.
Dostum has joined the election team of Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah
... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun..., one of several contenders in a presidential election scheduled for Sept. 28.