Jum'a-Mohammad Mohammadi was the Afghan Minister for Mines and Industries under the

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. He died in a plane crash on February 24, 2003 while returning from a mission in

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to learn techniques in copper mining. He was in his late 60s. Mohammadi had served in

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in the 1970s as water and power minister under president Mohammad Daoud. He was later imprisoned for two years after communists took over in a 1978 coup and assassinated Daoud. After being released, Mohammedi fled to the

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and spent most of the 1980s and 1990s there working as a construction engineer and for the

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. He was appointed to his position as Minister by interim president

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during a

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in June, 2002.

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