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Afghanistan
Hek is designated a global terrorist
2003-02-20
Notifying veteran Afghan leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a former Prime Minister of Afghanistan and leader of Hizb-e-Islami, as a global terrorist, the US has declared that money used in association of any finances, assets held by him would henceforth face world-wide freeze. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) notified on Wednesday the declaration to all the interested countries, organizations and parties that it is effective at 11:59 pm on February 18, 2003. The declaration says that Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's name has been added to the list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.
Took them long enough to do it. They gotta do something about that bureaucracy they've got in the State Department.
After being chased out of Kabul with his tail between his legs by the Taliban, Hek snuggled up with the Medes and Persians in Teheran. After the takeover of Kabul by Taliban, Mr. Hekmatyar moved to Tehran in self-exile. Through out Taliban’s regime, he stayed in Iran, afraid to show his face anywhere near Afghanistan, but after the fall of Kabul to US led forces, Iran forced him to leave the country under US pressure. Currently he is in Afghanistan fighting against the US invaders.
Actually other people are doing the fighting, while Hek pretends to be a combination field marshal and pope, but that's his style.
According to the US announcement, he has been included in the list of global terrorists after his recent activities in Afghanistan and linking him to the so-called terrorist group al-Qaeda led by Osama bin Laden. A US official told AFP that the current whereabouts of Mr. Hekmatyar were not known. It is interesting to note here that the US authorities do not know where the person is, but they do know that what he is doing.
When we say we don't know where he is, we just mean we don't know which particular block in Peshawar.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#4   If would've have been nice if they branded
HEK a terrorist in 1993 after he first blew
up the wtc. But then that would have ruined the
movie plot. They could have supported Massoud
against HEK but chose not to. WHY? WAR!
Posted by: arash   2004-08-21 10:25:33 PM  

#3  thanks for the pic and google-tip ;-)
Wasn't he in a Woody Allen pic as a rabbi?
Posted by: Frank G   2003-02-20 22:19:11  

#2  Frank G, you hit on an interest of mine. This guy looks like a real dork. I had read about him before finding Fred's site and figured he would be kinda scary looking. Then I saw the picture and saw that he looks like a wanker -- a dangerous wanker to be sure, but a wanker nontheless. He appears just dorky enough to think the Predator drone that we all hope will eventually kill him is kinda cool.

BTW, anytime you want a picture, I recommend google image search. It rules.
Posted by: JAB   2003-02-20 22:08:14  

#1  Fred, almost everything I know about Hek I've learned from reading your blog, but he seems to be a real prick...any pictures of this budget Napoleon around? or are they all the same quality as the Brownie Hawkeye snapshot of Mullah "Cyclops" Omar
Posted by: Frank G   2003-02-20 21:54:07  

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