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| Afghanistan |
| Rasool Sayyaf in Loya Jirga |
| 2002-06-08 |
| On the last day of voting, Abdul Rasool Sayyaf was among six delegates elected to represent the Paghman region, near the Afghan capital. The BBC correspondent in Kabul says its widely accepted that the rules of the Loya Jirga -- which is due to convene on Monday -- prohibit the election of warlords and those who have committed crimes. Professor Sayyaf says there is no proof that he was responsible for the many civilian deaths in Kabul during violent power struggles. Guess he had any witnesses shot. Sayyaf is the Saudis' man on the ground with the Northern Alliance. He heads the wahhabi political party, Ittehad-i-Islami, and he was the political link between Hekmatyar and Abdallah Azzam, bin Laden's partner in Maktab al-Khidamat (Services Office), which helped funnel fighters and money to the Afghan resistance from Peshawar, in the good old days. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |