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Nasrullah Mansour was a militia leader in Afghanistan.[1] Nasrullah Mansur represented the Harakat-i-Islami at a conference of militia leaders who agreed to form a coalition against the Soviets, in 1984.[2] The Harakat is a group largely drawn from Afghanistan's Shi'ite and Hazara minorities.[3][4][5][6]

The English language translation of A.A. Lyakhovskiy's "Plamya Afgana" ("Afghan flame"), an account of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan from the Soviet point of view, described Nasrullah Mansur as the leader of Afghanistan's Movement of the Islamic Revolution.[1]

Nasrullah was killed by a car bomb in 1993.[7]

Guantanamo connection

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The extrajudicial detention of Guantanamo captive, Ali Shah Mousavi, was justified, in part, because he had worked as a medic for Nasrullah Mansour during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, during the 1980s, and Nasrullah's son Saifullah Mansur had subsequently become a Taliban leader.[7][8]

References

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  1. ^ a b A. A. Lyakhovskiy (1999). "Plamya Afgana". Translated by Gary Goldberg. Woodrow Wilson Center. The Movement of the Islamic Revolution (DIR) – a faction which broke away from the pro-Pakistani DIRA party. The leader is Nasrullah Mansur. The organization enjoyed the trust of the Iranian leadership. They tried to use it to expand Iran's influence on Afghan counterrevolutionary groups based in Pakistan. The combat detachments numbered about 800. Nasrullah coordinated his activity with the overall boss of the IOA in the province of Herat, Turan Ismail. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ Olivier Roy. Islam and resistance in Afghanistan. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 2010-12-10. After several days of confused debate, a "coalition of seven parties" was set up which included the three Islamist parties of Hekmatyar, Rabbini and Khalis, that of Sayyaf with splinter groups from other parties, two from the Harakat (the only importantone being that of Mawlawi Nasrullah Mansur, which was quite firmly established in an area ranging from Paktya to Ghazni), and one from the National Liberation Front. {{cite book}}: line feed character in |quote= at position 87 (help)
  3. ^ "Islamic Movement of Afghanistan Founded 1978 or 1979 by Muhammad Asif Muhsini, Shiitic clergyman, educated in Iraq and Iran, Ayatullah who bears the title sheik Chairman: Muhammad Asif Muhsini Members: urban Hazara-Shiites Orientation: traditional-Islamic".
  4. ^ "Killing You is a Very Easy Thing For Us". Human Rights Watch. 2003-07-28. Retrieved 2010-12-10. Harakat-e Islami is a political party and military force that has existed for over twenty years, formerly as an anti-Soviet and anti-Taliban military force.
  5. ^ "Afghanistan: Information on the Harakat-e Islami (various spellings) including whether or not actions attributed to the group include war crimes or crimes against humanity". Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. 1999-04-01. However, a number of sources state that Mohseni's Harakat-e Islami was unusual among the Shia groups in that it broke ties with Iran at a relatively early date (1980) and did not join the Wahdat coalition of Shia groups.
  6. ^ "Blood-Stained Hands". Human Rights Watch. 2005-07-05. Retrieved 2010-12-10. Harakat-e Islami was a Shi'a political party and mujahedin force founded in the early 1980s.The Harakat-e Islami party was headed for most of the 1980s by a Shi'a cleric named Mohammad Asef Mohseni (who participated in the June 2002 loya jirga).
  7. ^ a b "Battle Creates a New Taliban Legend". Time magazine. 2002-05-07. Before that, Mansoor had lived in the shadow of his more famous father, Maulvi Nasrullah Mansoor, a mujahedeen commander against the Soviets in the 1980s. But while the father had backed the government of former President Burhanuddin Rabbani before being killed by political rivals in a 1993 car bombing, the young Mansoor joined the Taliban and served as deputy commander of the garrison at Kargha near Kabul until last November.
  8. ^ OARDEC (20050-12-20). "Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Shayed, Mohammed Ali Shah" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. pp. pages 87–89. Retrieved 2008-05-25. {{cite web}}: |pages= has extra text (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)