Talk:Shahzada (Taliban commander)

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[edit] reverting the conflation of Haji Shahzada (Guantanamo detainee 952) and Mullah Shahzada (Taliban commander)

I reverted this redirection because it seems to me that the wikipedian who made it was fooled by the surface similarity of these two individual's names.

Haji Shahzada, the landowner, dog-fancier, and cock-fighter, could not be Mullah Shahzada, the Taliban commander. Haji Shahzada was captured in 2003. Newspaper reports of the date of the release of Shahzada, the Taliban commander, span several years. But the earliest accounts have him being killed in combat when Haji Shahzada was still in Guantanamo. Dog-fighting and cock-fighting were serious crimes under the Taliban. Haji Shahzada's involvement in these activities would have precluded him being a member of the Taliban.

I am skeptical that the "former mujahedeen fighter" Shahzada, interviewed in Pakistan in 2002 is the same individual as the Taliban commander responsible for destroying the Buddhist statues. There is no hint in the New York Times interview that this Shahzada was going to return to the battlefield.

Shahzada seems to be a common name in Afghanistan.

Cheers! -- Geo Swan 18:04, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] revert -- see talk

I put my explanation here. Geo Swan 01:29, 29 May 2007 (UTC)