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| Afghanistan |
| U.S. arrested reputed Hizb-e Islami member |
| 2003-03-03 |
| U.S. forces on 2 March arrested a commander of the Hizb-e Islami named Ezatullah in the Sorobi District of Kabul Province, Hindukosh news agency reported. Hindukosh cited reports that Hizb-e Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has been trying to block the Kabul-Jalalabad highway in order to carry out attacks against U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan. The news agency added that during the Afghan civil war in the 1990s the same man was assigned to block this highway. "Yup. Yup. I'm blockin' the highway, just like I always block the highway..." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |