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Real name Noor Alam. Abdullah was a Pashtun, the same ethnic group as the Taliban and belonged to the Mehsud tribe. Abdullah studied at a government college in Peshawar before attending a seminary where he befriended Afghan Taliban and joined their movement. As a young man, Abdullah fought for the Taliban against the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan. He lost a leg in a landmine explosion a few days before the Taliban captured Kabul in September 1996. Abdullah remained imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay and became one of Pakistan’s most wanted Taliban leaders after his release. Abdullah – said to have died in Zhob, Balochistan at the age of 33 – spent 25 months in custody at the US prison in Cuba before his release in March 2004.
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