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770 al-Qaida linked foreigners get Afghan citizenship during past regimes
 Some 770 al-Qaida linked foreigners have got Afghanistan national identity cards during the past regimes in last decade, the spokesman of Interior Ministry said Sunday. "Yes, I confirm that 990 foreign nationals have gotten Afghan citizenship before establishment of provisional government of Afghanistan and 770 of them are al-Qaida associates," Yusuf Stanikzai told Xinhua.
| The Talibs used to hand out Afghan citizenship to anybody with a big enough turban... |
However, he declined to identify their countries by saying, " They are foreigners."
| They could be Laplanders. Or Samoans. |
| I doubt they were Uruguayans, though. Too fierce. Wouldn't want to scare the locals. |
The spokesman also did not say who did provide Afghan national identity to these strangers.
| Ummm... Lemme see. "Past regimes in last decade." That'd be subsequent to 1996. Who was in power then? |
The spokesman of the Interior Ministry also said that the Afghan government was trying to further identify and pursue these foreigners with the support of Interpol and retake the Afghan capital transferred by them to foreign banks.
| I'd guess they're referring to when they looted the national bank, just prior to the fall of Kabul... |
Afghan officials said last month that al-Qaida leaders had bought 66 houses in Kabul while Taliban leaders had taken millions of U.S. dollars of Afghan property to foreign countries before their regime's collapse.
Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-02-13 |
