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Ex-Taliban, Warlord Said in Talks
Pakistan's intelligence service, publicly allied with the United States in the fight against terrorism, is trying to broker an alliance between leaders of Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime and a fugitive warlord who is on the United States' most wanted list, a former Taliban official said Friday. Meeting in secret in the dust-clogged streets of Peshawar, he said Pakistan's intelligence service has been acting as a go-between with the remnants of the Afghan religious regime and supporters of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a key rebel leader who was based in Iran and is now sought by U.S. forces. "Already the mujahedeen (fighters) of Hekmatyar and of the Taliban are together, but some of the leaders still have differences," the official told The Associated Press.
They tried to come together a few months ago, with the Secret Army of Doom, but it looks like they had a falling out over who was going to be potentate.
The official, who is in hiding and spoke only on condition of anonymity, said Pakistan's InterServices Intelligence agency has also been meeting with the former Taliban governor of eastern Nangarhar province, Maulvi Abdul Kabir, believed to be the Taliban's third highest-ranking member. "Kabir is very close to the ISI," he said. But the ISI dismissed allegations that it was trying to broker any agreement, saying its loyalties are to the government of President Pervez Musharraf.
Unless, of course, they get a better offer.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-11-15
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