Mullah Abdul Rahmaan (1948-) was a Taliban financier who was a Mujahideen leader during the Soviet-Afghan War.
Biography[]
During the Soviet-Afghan War in the 1980s, Rahmaan commanded a Mujahideen army on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. He became affiliated with Raul Menendez, a Nicaraguan gun runner and drug lord, supplying information on activities in the region to Menendez.
In the Battle of Khost, supported by CIA agents Jason Hudson, Alex Mason, and Frank Woods and Guoanbu agent Tian Zhao, his Afghan jihadists drove off a ferocious attack by the Soviet Union's Red Army in September 1986. Rahmaan betrayed the four, revealing his allegiance to Menendez and stranding the four in the desert.
In the aftermath of the war, he sided with the Taliban that took power in 1996 during the civil wars with the Northern Alliance. During the Afghanistan War, Rahmaan was involved in heightening insecurity in Kunduz, Takhar and Badakhshan provinces.
He encouraged insurgents to plant roadside bombs and stage high-profile attacks on Afghan officials. On 23 October 2012, Rahmaan was captured by a joint NATO-German operation.