Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an Afghan warlord named as a terrorist by the U.S., called on Afghans to fight the U.S.-led coalition in the country in a similar uprising to the insurgency in Iraq, the Associated Press said. ``Everyone believed that Afghans would be ahead of Iraqis in starting a popular uprising to evict the foreign occupiers,'' AP cited Hekmatyar as saying in a statement obtained by the news agency. Afghans, like Iraqi fighters, ``will choose the way of uprising against the occupiers.''
| I don't think anyone's ever believed the Afghans to be ahead of Iraq in anything, let along uprisings. |
The statement was delivered to AP by one of Hekmatyar's aides, who lives in visited Peshawar in Pakistan, which lies 30 kilometers from the Afghan border. |