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Cheap Afghan insurgency can last for a long time: Hekmatyar
 Afghanistans insurgency is cheap to fund and the fighters behind it are committed, so it can continue for a long time without foreign support, rebel leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has told AFP.| "So don't bother sending us any more money or people. Really, we're fine. Buy yourself something nice instead. A facial, some new shoes, that trip to Atlantic City you always wanted to take," he forgot to add. |
Roadside bombs, which Taliban and other insurgents regularly use to deadly effect, cost $100 dollars each, the former Afghan prime minister said in a recorded DVD response to AFP questions that was delivered this week. This is much less expensive than the billions of dollars spent by international troops conducting counter-insurgency operations.
The Americans know that roadside bombs used against their convoys cost only $100, said Hekmatyar, who carries a multi-million-dollar US bounty on his head. We need neither foreign support for materials and equipment or for expenses, he said in the video. If we are able to carry out at least 1,000 such attacks a year, it costs us only $100,000. We can carry on this war for a long time, he added| "I'm serious. Get that barbecue and a big ol' slab of pork ribs, a big ol' tub of ice cold Coronas. Me-n-the-boyz have it all taken care of." |
In the DVD, Hekmatyar flatly rejected allegations by President Hamid Karzai and some US officials that the uprising is dependent on support from Pakistan, including its intelligence service. Those who have military experience and know the details of the current resistance understand that we dont need support from anyone, or any foreign country, he said. Some people suggest that Pakistan supports us. I tell you, Pakistan was the one who helped the Americans take Afghanistan.
Posted by: Fred 2007-05-07 |
