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Hek is designated a global terrorist
Notifying veteran Afghan leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a former Prime Minister of Afghanistan and leader of Hizb-e-Islami, as a global terrorist, the US has declared that money used in association of any finances, assets held by him would henceforth face world-wide freeze. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) notified on Wednesday the declaration to all the interested countries, organizations and parties that it is effective at 11:59 pm on February 18, 2003. The declaration says that Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's name has been added to the list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. Took them long enough to do it. They gotta do something about that bureaucracy they've got in the State Department. Actually other people are doing the fighting, while Hek pretends to be a combination field marshal and pope, but that's his style. According to the US announcement, he has been included in the list of global terrorists after his recent activities in Afghanistan and linking him to the so-called terrorist group al-Qaeda led by Osama bin Laden. A US official told AFP that the current whereabouts of Mr. Hekmatyar were not known. It is interesting to note here that the US authorities do not know where the person is, but they do know that what he is doing. When we say we don't know where he is, we just mean we don't know which particular block in Peshawar. Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-02-20 |
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