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    The Battle of Qala-i-Jangi in Afghanistan (sometimes also referred to as the "Battle of Mazar-i-Sharif") was a six-day military engagement following an...
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    Qala-i-Jangi (Dari/Pashto: قلعهِ جنگی) is a 19th-century fortress located near Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan. It is known for being the site of...
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  • during the United States invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. He died at the Qala-i-Jangi fortress during an al-Qaeda prisoner uprising. Johnny Micheal Spann was...
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    history. On 25 November, as Taliban prisoners were moved into Qala-i-Jangi fortress near Mazar-i-Sharif, a few Taliban attacked their Northern Alliance guards...
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    November 2001. He was detained at Qala-i-Jangi fortress, used as a prison. He denied participating in the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi, a violent uprising of the Taliban...
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  • Abdul Jabar (born 1975) was a captive who survived the Qala-i-Jangi prison riot. An article published in the New York Times described Abdul Jabar as a...
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  • Province. Some of the prisoners were survivors of the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi in Mazar-i-Sharif. In 2009, Dostum denied the accusations. According to all...
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    just outside Mazar-i-Sharif. After they surrendered to Dostum, they were transferred to the 19th century garrison fortress, Qala-i-Jangi. The next day, while...
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    He received the award in 2003 for his actions during the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi, which took place in late November to early December 2001. Mitchell's...
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    surrendering Taliban fighters. All the men were sent to the Qala-e-Jangi prison complex near Mazar-i-Sharif. Among the surrendering Taliban forces, Afghan Arabs...
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    to Johnny Micheal "Mike" Spann after he was killed at the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi in November 2001 in Afghanistan. Spann, a Paramilitary Operations Officer...
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  • Pelton has been present at several struggles, such as the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi in Afghanistan, the Battle of Grozny (1999–2000) in Chechnya, the rebel...
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  • joining the Taliban in the process. He is later caught after the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi. Mike is trained to fully assume Khan's identity (right down to saying...
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    Company, gave testimony about al-Jamadi's death, saying of the dead prisoner, "I was told that, when he was brought in, he was combative, that they took him...
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    worn by soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division during the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi in 2001). During Operation Bright Star 1995, Third Army personnel wore...
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  • singer Abdul Jabbar Abbas, Iraqi actor Abdul Jabar (Qala-i-Jangi captive) (born 1975), Afghan Qala-i-Jangi captive Abdul Jabbar al-Oqaidi, Syrian soldier Abdul...
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    Mausoleum Haji Piyada Khair Khaneh Mundigak Musalla Complex Nagara Qala-i-Jangi Rag-i-Bibi Surkh Kotal Iran Bandian complex Mount Khajeh Shahr-e Sukhteh...
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  • of Mazar-i-Sharif Siege of Kunduz Fall of Kabul (2001) 2001 uprising in Herat Battle of Tarin Kowt Fall of Kandahar Battle of Qala-i-Jangi Battle of...
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  • him scream out 'Allah,'" he said. "It went on over a 24-hour period, and I would think that it was over 100 strikes." The Times reported that: On the...
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  • intelligence about Shah during a patrol including his full name: Ahmad Shah Dara-I-nur (Ahmad Shah of the Valley of the Enlightened ones); his birthplace, the...
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    riot 2000 F-type prisons strike and riots 21st century 2001 Battle of Qala-i-Jangi 2009 Mexico prison riot 2012 Altamira prison brawl 2012 Apodaca prison...
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    to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA states that [i]nclusion on the Memorial Wall is awarded posthumously to employees who lose...
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    an addendum to his paper. "With some of the original uncertainty removed, I can state that the probability now lies more in favor of Chapman surviving...
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  • Kandahar and Pakistan. Forces loyal to bin Laden smuggled weapons into Qala-i-Jangi prison near Mazari Sharif, where they were held after surrendering at...
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  • Fall of Mazar-i-Sharif Siege of Kunduz Herat uprising Fall of Kabul Battle of Tarinkot Fall of Kandahar Battle of Qala-i-Jangi Dasht-i-Leili massacre...
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    10th Mountain Division (category United States Army divisions of World War I)
    operations such as Operation Anaconda, the Fall of Mazar-i-Sharif, and the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi. These 1-87th Infantry soldiers became the first US conventional...
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    twenty-second and the eighteenth-seventeenth centuries BCE". Grigoriev 2021, p. 27: "[I]f the entire sampling of Sintashta dates falls within the range of 2200–1650...
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    riot 2000 F-type prisons strike and riots 21st century 2001 Battle of Qala-i-Jangi 2009 Mexico prison riot 2012 Altamira prison brawl 2012 Apodaca prison...
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    the February 2 and 3, 1980, Riot at the Penitentiary of New Mexico (PART I: The Penitentiary, the Riot, the Aftermath - Appendix C1) published the June...
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    V.; Khartanovich, Valeriy I.; Moiseyev, Vyacheslav; Grebenyuk, Pavel S.; Fedorchenko, Alexander Yu; Lebedintsev, Alexander I.; Slobodin, Sergey B.; Malyarchuk...
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