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| Afghanistan |
| Hizbi Islami denies al-Qa'ida link |
| 2002-12-16 |
| RFE/RL Newsline Qutbodin Hilal, a member of the central council of Gulbuddin Hikmatyar's Hizb-i Islami party, on 16 December told Mashhad radio's Dari-language service that the deployment of an Afghan national army would make the presence of foreign forces unnecessary. During a conference in Petersberg, Germany, earlier this month, Karzai issued a decree that set out his plan for the creation of a 70,000-strong Afghan national army. And on 15 December, Kabul's Radio Afghanistan broadcast an order from Karzai that decreed the creation of a national army as essential to Afghanistan's reconstruction. "Y'see, if we can get them dang furriners out of the country, then we should be able to handle any 'national army' they leave behind, and Hek will be able to take over and be in charge and we'll all live happily ever after..." Hilal added that the Hizb-i Islami has not cooperated with Al-Qaeda in any fashion because Al-Qaeda is a 'terrorist organization'. Guess the agreement fell through again, huh? There's no pleasing some people... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |