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CIA tries to bump off Hekmatyar
The CIA wants to kill a renegade Afghan warlord who it sees as a major threat to the interim government of President Hamid Karzai and U.S. troops, and has already fired a missile from an unmanned Predator plane at the man. Former Afghan Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar narrowly missed being hit by the missile, which was fired at him near Kabul Monday. Some members of his Hezb-e-Islami â "Party of Islam" â group were believed killed. CIA officials declined to comment. 'When asked for comment, an unnamed CIA official who requested anonymity replied, "I wonder if they're having lima beans in the cafeteria today? I really hate lima beans."' An official of the Afghan Defense Ministry, who also spoke only on condition of anonymity, said Thursday that Hekmatyar was not in the Kabul area. Shortly after the missile struck he was as far from the Kabul area as he could get. Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-05-09 |
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