Deleted:Shahzada Akhund

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Mullah Shahzada Akhund is a citizen of Afghanistan believed to have been a Taliban leader.[1] Newsweek magazine reported that Shahzada Akhund had been held in extrajudicial detention for almost three years in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camp, in Cuba. Newsweek reported that he was killed in a "friendly fire" incident in the summer of 2004.

According to Newsweek a more junior Taliban leader who was present at a meeting between Shahzada Akhund and the Taliban's leader Mullah Omar, Omar had told Akhund he had lost patience with Akhund's accounts of how much he had suffered in Guantanamo.[1]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Sami Yousafzai, Ron Morequ (2004-12-27). "Last days of the Taliban?". Newsweek magazine. Archived from the original on 2009-04-05. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Fid%2F56167%3Ftid%3Drelatedcl&date=2009-04-03. Retrieved 2009-04-05.