American military officials today released 12 detainees held for two weeks in Kandahar on suspicion of being Iranians or Iranian agents, having concluded that they all are Afghan. Of the suspected Iranians, at least 10 are members of Hezb-i-Wahdat, a party made up of Shiite Muslims of the Hazara ethnic group, which has had close ties to Iran; like most parties here, it comes with soldiers.
False alarm. Or another Gul Agha plot against Ismail Khan? |