Abdul Bari (Taliban commander, Helmand)
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Mullah Abdul Bari was alleged to be a Taliban commander.[1][2] He is reported to have been killed with 29 other fighters. However, Abdul-Bari survived and in fact was imprisoned in Pakistan from 2008 to 2013. He was released in 2013 after a galling stint and promoted to command the Helmand military front. The released Abdul-Bari was at the time confused with another Abdul-Bari Agha, who had been governor during the 1990s. [3]
Mullah Noormal, a Taliban commander involved in the Taliban's successful capture of Musa Qala, told Asia Times that Abdul Bari was in overall command of the attack.[4]
Another Taliban commander named Mullah Abdul Bari was reported killed in Uruzgan Province on April 1, 2009.[5]