Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's... who used to be known in intelligence circles as
The Most Evil Man in the Worldbut who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil...
party of Hezb-e-Islami.
Seven suspects who were involved in the attack on UN office in Balkh province have been tossed in the calaboose and they will soon face trial, Balkh governor said.
After the burning of Koran by an American pastor, hundreds of residents of Mazar-e-Sharif staged a huge demonstration nearly five months ago. Later on the demonstrations turned violent and some protesters broke into UN regional office killing 7 UN staff.
UN Secretary General
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
strongly condemned the incident then.
Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid
Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a
Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
has paid victim families in cash months after the incident.
"There is no doubt that some hands were involved in the incident. Investigations have been carried out and the case is complete," Governor Atta Mohammad Noor said. "Those who were tossed in the calaboose had links to Hezb-e-Islami and the Taliban."