Ehsanullah Ehsan

Mullah Ehsanullah Ehsan is a current Taliban spokesman and former member of the Taliban leadership., National Security Archive, September 11, 2004

With the recent death of Osama Bin Laden, Ehsanullah Ehasan may once again take a more active leadership role in the Taliban.

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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