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Afghanistan
Hekmatyar's in Herat
2002-03-05
  • Anti-American warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who ruthlessly shelled Kabul during the early 1990s, has returned to Afghanistan from Iran. An Afghan official said Iran had put pressure on Herat's warlord Ismail Khan to admit Hekmatyar.

    U.S. intelligence agencies have spotted scores of Iranian intelligence and military personnel inside Afghanistan working to destabilize the interim government. They include agents from the Ministry of Intelligence and Security — the Iranian spy service — and Iranian special-forces troops from the Revolutionary Guards Corps. The Iranians want to block any return to power of the exiled king, Mohammed Zahir Shah, to forestall any efforts by Iranian royalists to return the son of the late shah of Iran to power.
    Hekmatyar's probably more of a danger to Afghanistan than the Taliban are.
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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