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| Afghanistan |
| Hek's plot to kidnap Karzai foiled |
| 2003-01-19 |
| IslamOnline & News Agencies Afghan police have discovered a number of hideouts in and around Kabul apparently intended to hold President Hamid Karzai and other top officials captive following a kidnapping, the German newsweekly Focus reported Sunday, January 19. Citing a report by the German foreign intelligence service (BND) made to the defense committee of the Bundestag lower house of parliament, Focus said that former Afghan prime minister and warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar was believed to be behind the plot. Hekmatyar, a fierce opponent of Karzai’s multi ethnic coalition, commands troops that control the Afghan-Iranian border region, Agence France-Presse (AFP) quoted the Focus report as saying. According to the BND report, Hekmatyar has joined forces with fighters of the former Taliban regime who rely on support from allies in Pakistan. I think Hek's finally lost it. It was probably getting tossed by his own party that pushed him over the edge... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #3 The 3,000,000 figure given earlier requires explanation. Most people who've studied this estimate that about 75-90% of the people murdered were muslims (who typically were considered insufficiently Pakistani) and the balance hindu. |
| Posted by: mhw 2003-01-20 08:59:20 |
| #2 Hekmatyar, I beleive, is supported/funded/kissed by Iran. Iran has a lot at stake here. |
| Posted by: Peter Stan 2003-01-19 21:33:45 |
| #1 The neo-Talibanis have a huge pool of jihadis: Pakistanis. For every terrorist turned over by the Mushareff government since 911, 1000 have arisen out of the Islamic-revolutionary (Inqilab) mentality. Had the U.S. allied with India, instead of with a government whose predecessors murdered 3,000,000 Hindus and opponents in 1971, Pakistan would have been forced to make real moves against the jihadis, and a strong pro-West government would be in Kabul. As it is, the jihadi movement is spreading into the Punjab and Sindh. Pakistan can't be bought; the Saudis already own them. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-01-19 18:42:38 |