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Afghanistan
Afghan Militants Vow to Send 'Thousands' of Fighters to Yemen
2015-04-09
[AnNahar] An Afghanistan-based jihadist group known for its past ties to Pak intelligence on Wednesday vowed to send "thousands" of fighters to Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
in support of Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
Brilliant! Go in your thousands and be killed there, while the Afghans get on with whatever self-rule and stability they are capable of when less molested by Pakistani bright ideas.
Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin was one of the main Sunni myrmidon groups that fought against Soviet troops and later re-emerged to fight U.S.-led coalition forces after 2001.

"If there is any possibility to go to Iraq and Yemen, thousands of Afghan mujahideen would be ready to go, to counter Iran's interference and to defend their Moslem brothers," its leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil...
, former prime minister of Afghanistan, said in an online statement.

"After Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Leb, Tehran has now started interfering in Yemen, it is supporting the anti-Moslem, apostate troops," he added.

Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin first emerged as part of the anti-Soviet mujahideen alliance in the 1980s which was bankrolled by Saudi Arabia and the United States, and coordinated by Pak intelligence.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  The Afghan President - whatshisname - must be ordering popcorn by the boxcar.
Posted by: Bobby   2015-04-09 07:45  

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