His relationship with Dostum helped him cross the border easily during a time when not many others could.
But his association with Dostum certainly helped to turn his financial fortunes.
Abdul Rashid Dostum, has refused to appear in court on charges he and his men brutally assaulted a rival and his relatives last month.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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