Word: muttawakil
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...Reports suggested a split in the Taliban leadership over the price to the Afghan people of hosting bin Laden, with moderate Foreign Minister Abdul Wakil Muttawakil keeping such a low profile that he was thought to have defected. There were also reports from southern and eastern Afghanistan that Taliban police are incensed by the arrogance of bin Laden's fighters, and have clashed with them. In Jalalabad one of bin Laden's associates died in an explosion, apparently handling a hand grenade: sources named him as Abu Baseer al-Masri...
...guest, is a liability and should be expelled from Afghanistan. But the Taliban has little intention of giving up bin Laden. "He was a friend in a time of need. It would be very much cowardly to leave him at this stage in his life," Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil told...