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Afghanistan
Hekmatyar: ''I'm warnin' you...!''
2002-10-09
Source: S.A.D.A, Translated By Jihad Unspun
Former Afghan Prime Minister and Leader of Hizbe Islami Afghanistan, Engineer Gulbadin Hekmatyar has said that Afghan nation will celebrate October 7 next year as the day when America left Afghanistan because it is now not going to stay long as it will have to leave disgracefully like Russia.
Any time now... Will you help us pack?
He expressed these opinions in a statement in Pushto on the one year anniversary of American invasion of Afghanistan. Our neighboring country which was a refuge for Afghans during the Russian war, is now ready to do anything to please America. Even if this means support against Taliban and Hizb e Islami, lending bases against Taliban and letting US use their air space. Iran, which is also a neighboring country and from which help was expected due to the atrocities on Afghans, it is also helping America. He said that primarily Iran helped Northern Alliance against Pushtoons, then it helped US against Taliban and now it is helping the government which was formed during the Bonn Conference.
Terrible. Y'know, there's that old saying about how, if everybody around you is acting weird, and you're not, maybe you're the one who's nutz?
Hekmatyar went on to say that some circles are thinking that in order to finish the Taliban, all the Afghan factions apart from Hizb e Islami are helping America. He said that five US soldiers are dying in Afghanistan daily and the injured are shifted to Bagram. He went on to say that Mujahideen have started several operations in Eastern parts of Afghanistan including Kantar, Paktia, Paktika along with Kandahar and several other areas, which will gain momentum as the time goes by. He said that it will cost America a lot to stay in Afghanistan and next year America will not spend October 7 there. He also said that the Afghans who supported America, will be treated the same way as they treated Afghans, when America leaves.
Sounds pretty bloodthirsty. And five Merkin deaders a day? Apalling! And he hasn't even begun rocketing Kabul yet...

As I've pointed out before, Hek is trying to put together an alliance of Pashtuns against the rest of the country, mostly Gilzai Pashtuns, since Karzai's a Darrani. (Or is it the other way around...?) His alliance has so far been ineffectual and there doesn't seem to be much indication it's going to stop being ineffectual. But I'll still be happier when he's decomposing.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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