Dadullah

Dadullah Akhund ملا دادالله آخوند
Born	1966 Uruzgan province/Kandahar Province, Afghanistan
Died	12 May 2007 (aged 41) Helmand province
Allegiance	Taliban
Years of service	1994-2007
Rank	Commander
Battles/wars	Soviet war in Afghanistan Afghan civil war War in Afghanistan

Maulavi or Mullah Dadullah or Dadullah Akhund (Pashto: ملا دادالله آخوند‎) (1966 – 12 May 2007) was the Taliban's senior military commander until he was killed by British and American special forces in Afghanistan in 2007. He was an ethnic Pashtun from the Kakar tribe of Kalai-Kakaran village in Uruzgan province of Afghanistan. He also had a home in Alajilga, a border village in Kandahar province. According to the United Nations' list of entities belonging to or associated with the Al-Qaida organization he had been the Taliban's Minister of Construction.

Dadullah lost a leg when fighting with the Mujahideen against Soviet occupation in the 1980s. He was a member of the Taliban's 10-man leadership council before the US-led invasion in 2001. He was reportedly also a close aide to Mullah Omar. In the period of 1999–2000, he led the suppression of a revolt by Hazaras in Bamyan province. In January 2001, Dadullah's forces committed several massacres of ethnic Hazaras, resulting in the death of some 300 civilians in the Yakaolang area. On March 10, 2001, he supervised the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan, which had been ordered by Mullah Omar. When the Taliban regime fell in December 2001, Dadullah escaped capture by Northern Alliance forces in Kunduz province.

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