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Afghanistan will be 'third Vietnam' for US: Hekmatyar
 Afghanistan will prove a third Vietnam for the United States and Afghans will continue their jihad against the coalition forces, former Afghan prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar said in a four-page statement issued from an undisclosed location on Monday.Hekmatyar said that he was happy at the deaths of US soldiers in Iraq, which he said showed that the US was being defeated there and in Afghanistan. He said that US President George Bush had compared Iraq with Vietnam and claimed that Afghanistan would become the third Vietnam for the US after Iraq. The former Afghan prime minister said the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan would break the US economic backbone and its fate would be similar to that of the Soviet Union. Hekmatyars statement on Monday is the second since he released a four-page statement on October 23 to greet Afghans on Eidul Fitr. Posted by: Fred 2006-10-31 |
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