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Afghanistan
US troops arrest former Afghan minister
2003-01-02
US troops have arrested a former Afghan minister who heads an influential Pashtun tribe in eastern Paktia province. US forces picked up haji Mohammad Naeem Kochi on Wednesday on a highway running south of Kabul en route to a meeting with his Ahmedzai tribe. AIP said Paktia governor Raz Mohammad Dalili confirmed the arrest but gave no reason.
Maybe they just haven't seen him for awhile and want to talk to him?
Naeem Kochi was a minister in the government of ineffectual moderate Afghan leader Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, who took over as interim president after the fall of the communist government in 1992. He leads the large Ahmedzai tribe, which has considerable influence in Afghanistan's ethnic Pashtun-dominated Paktia, Paktika, Khost, Logar and Nangarhar provinces, AIP said.
Those are coincidentally where the majority of the acts of lunacy are being perpetrated in Afghanistan. Figger that...
He did not accept any office in the five-year Taliban regime, which was ousted late 2001, but maintained good relations with the hardline Islamic militia.
And presumably he also maintained his good relations with Hekmatyar and his hard boys. And with Binny and his Arab Legion.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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