Rahmatullah Safi

General Rahmatullah Safi (born 1948, died 2001) is a citizen of Afghanistan who is said to have been a member of the Taliban movement.cite web
url=http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2001/afg131.doc.htm
title=Press Release, AFG/131, SC/7028
publisher=United Nations Security Council
accessdate=May 10
accessyear=2007]

Formerly a colonel in the Royal Afghan Army, he joined the National Islamic Front of Afghanistan, a mujahideen party led by Pir Sayyed Ahmed Gailani, after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. As a mujahideen commander, he was based in Peshawar, and operated in Paktia and Kunar provinces, taking part in the 1986 Zhawar fighting. [cite book | first = David | last = Isby | title = War in a distant country, Afghanistan: invasion and resistance | date = 1989 | publisher = Arms and Armour Press |isbn= 0 85368 769 2| pages= , p.106]

As of 1998, Safi was living in London, England, but departed to Afghanistan along with Nabi Misdak to convince Mullah Omar to hand over Osama bin Laden to foreign authorities. [ [http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-13-2002/0001646846&EDATE Newsweek: Mohammed Omar's Driver Says U.S. Soldiers Came Close to Finding Him; 'Man of the People' Fled His Kandahar Compound in Rickshaw, Slept in Basements ] ] , and he was considered the Taliban's European Ambassador according to a United Nations Security Council press release..

As of 2004, Safi had resigned his military commission and announced his intentions to run in the 2004 Afghan presidential election [ [http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2003/11/6-SWA/swa-131103.asp Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty ] ]

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