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| Hekmatyar Says The War On Civilizations Has Begun |
| 2002-11-08 |
| Ummm... Yep. That wording seems about right... Source: Al-Hayat The Afghan Islamic politician Golboddin Hekmatyar has said the West has launched a war of civilizations against the Islamic world. Yes. We flew aircraft into buildings that were chock full of innocent Muslims, going about their business. American clerics, each and every Sunday, whip the faithful into paroxysms of rage against all Muslims, everywhere... Interviewed at an unspecified date and location by the London-based newspaper Al-Hayat, Hekmatyar called for the formation of a united world Islamic front to confront the crusader war which US President George Bush has declared against the Islamic people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, Palestine and other places. If you mobilize an entire civilization against another one in a war to the death, the one on the receiving end doesn't even have the choice of surrendering. If they kill you instead, you don't have a beef, do you? In his first press interview since his disappearance in Iran about one year ago, Hekmatyar told Al-Hayat through a middleman that the American forces will face the same fate as the one faced by the Soviet forces in Afghanistan. He said that Washington would drown in the Afghan swamp if it postponed its attack on Iraq for months. That's a relief. I don't think we're going to delay much past the end of January... The leader of the Afghan Hezb-e Eslami urged the Taleban Movement not to preoccupy itself with marginal issues, like blowing up entertainment places, and pay attention to the bigger battle, which is resisting the American forces. He denied, at the same time, any organizational relationship between his party and the Taleban and Al-Qa'idah. "There'll be lots of time to blow up theaters and cut people's heads off after the Americans are gone... Al-Qaeda and the Taliban? Oh, we're just good friends..." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 I don't see unity as the solution in Afghanistan. If sections of the country can't live together, then they should live apart. I know where Hek fits in: permanent exile. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2002-11-09 02:07:18 |