His relationship with Dostum helped him cross the border easily during a time when not many others could.

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But his association with Dostum certainly helped to turn his financial fortunes.

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Abdul Rashid Dostum, has refused to appear in court on charges he and his men brutally assaulted a rival and his relatives last month.

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But the plane has never left the ground because, in the U.S.-backed government of Hamid Karzai, General Dostum is something of a persona non grata.

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Dostum also said the rebellion likely began because some of the prisoners were not fully searched on the first day, allowing them to smuggle weaponry into the compound.

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Kamgar's godfather: General Abdul Rashid Dostum, an Uzbek warlord who controlled northern Afghanistan despite Taliban inroads in the 1990s and is the leader of an ethnic Uzbek party.

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But a top Taliban leader who had been negotiating with Dostum for the surrender of Konduz said the rebellious prisoners were mostly non-Afghan fighters who acted on their own.

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Macroyan was largely under the control of a fourth group, an Uzbek militia called Junbish-e-Milli, led by a warlord of exceptional brutality named Abdul Rashid Dostum, who had fought for the Soviets.

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The neutrality of Turkish troops may be open to question, as Turkey is known to have been a supporter of Rashid Dostum, one of the more notorious warlords, and now deputy defence minister.

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Rashid Dostum, a commander of the anti-Taliban forces.

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However, if the election is to give the political system the sluicing it needs, Mr Dostum and the chief candidate of the Hazara tribe, Mohammad Mohaqiq, who won 11% of the vote, must be overlooked.

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But two of the most powerful warlords, Abdul Rashid Dostum, the Uzbek general who rules over the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, and Ismael Khan, who rules Herat in the west, refused to take the bait.

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Abdul Rashid Dostum, we saw those 400-plus Taliban prisoners coming off those trucks, and I was extremely surprised how little security there was around the area where those prisoners were being searched and questioned and eventually led to their cells.

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Abdul Rashid Dostum -- who used the fortress as a headquarters but was not on the site when the revolt began -- toured the site Wednesday, saying the revolt had been a well-planned plot to kill him and other alliance leaders.

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Dostum will take Sheberghan.

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