 Warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who is wanted by Washington for terrorism has distributed a video recording in southern Afghanistan urging Afghans to wage jihad against America.
| That's basically his profession now: urging Afghans to wage jihad against America. I don't think it pays quite as well as it used to, though. |
In the 22-minute speech on a recording filled with graphic images of carnage and violence against Muslims in Indonesia, Palestine, Iraq and elsewhere, Hekmatyar makes a passionate call for holy war. "War in Afghanistan and Iraq is the second crusade war but the only difference is in the first crusade Italy was leading the war and this time it is America," Hekmatyar says on the CD. The video produced by the Abdullah Islamic and Jihadi Films Center starts with the slogan: "Our jihad will continue till the destruction of America, Britain and Israel and till the liberation of Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan."
Hekmatyar, who heads the fundamentalist Hezb-i-Islami guerrilla faction and lives in Pakistan, has been declared a wanted but ineffective terrorist by the US for his attempts to destabilise Karzai's US-backed government. His foot soldiers are believed to be part of an alliance of Al Qaeda and Taleban militants waging a guerrilla campaign against US and Afghan government troops in south and southeastern Afghanistan. "We have lots of young fighters who can't throw a grenade properly are ready to sacrifice their lives and wealth to make me the head cheese safe the religion," he said. Hekmatyar also called on Afghans to use suicide attacks against the enemy—a recent phenomenon in Afghanistan. "If they cannot fight in an organized front they can risk their lives and carry out suicide guerrilla attacks which have given great defeats to the enemy," Hekmatyar said.
| "I will encourage these efforts from my secret lair in Pakistan, as I am too important to the movement to explode myself," he added. |
Hekmatyar is a former prime minister and was a leading mujahideen warlord during the war against the Soviet Union.
| He's also the guy who rocketed the crap out of Kabul when trying to install himself as dictator after Masood finally got the Soviets to leave... |
He took refuge in Iran during the reign of the hardline Taleban regime but was forced into hiding in Afghanistan after he proclaimed a jihad against Karzai's government in Iran. As Hekmatyar spoke, chickens and children voices could be heard in the background laughing at him although it was unclear where he was speaking from.
| Is Hek as rotund a fella as Qazi? |
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