Ehsanullah Ehsan

Mullah Ehsanullah Ehsan is a former member of the Taliban leadership. [http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB134/index.htm Document 1 - Islama 01750] , "National Security Archive", September 11 2004] Originally, he was the chairman of the Taliban'sCentral Bank. Later, Ehsan was the Taliban's Administrator of Captured Provinces. [http://www.vic-info.org/RegionsTop.nsf/cd9253f54ef331048a25682e00065544/27deffd8fb6617ba8a256872006592c2/$FILE/Taliban.doc Taliban: Regional Impact] ]

Shortly after the Taliban took over major Afghan institutions in December 1996, Ehsan, acting as chair of the Central Bank, declared most Afghani notes in circulation to be worthless and cancelled the contract with the Russian firm that had been printing the currency. Ehsan accused the firm of sending new shipments of Afghani notes to ousted president Burhanuddin Rabbani in northern Takhar province.

Ehsanullah's name appears in the transcripts of several Guantanamo detainees.

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