Suleiman

Turn and turn again

Like the "Grand Old Duke of York", Commander Suleiman has marched his men to the top of the hill and marched them down again.

The words in the famous English nursery rhyme are believed to refer to a battle in Europe's War of the Roses, but now they can equally be applied to events in the hills surrounding the city of Herat in western Afghanistan - and the war against the Taliban.

Commander Suleiman used to control a police unit patrolling the volatile border with Iran, but defected to the insurgents along with eighty of his men and all of their weapons just over a year ago.

He told Al Jazeera at the time that he'd seen the foreign troops on Afghan soil involved in prostitution and drinking alcohol. He considered it was his duty as a Muslim to wage Jihad against them.