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To: maceng2 who wrote (42086)	9/5/2002 7:50:54 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Kabul death toll now up to 22 ananova.com /edit. So who is Gulbuddin Hekmatyar mentioned in BBC link who is calling for holy war to remove USA troops? some background news.bbc.co.uk some more background.. rawa.fancymarketing.net afghanan.net Hekmatyar, Gulbuddin Born 1947 in Ghazni of Pashtun parrents. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar was the worst of the Afghan Warlords. he hid most of the weapons that Pakistan and the CIA gave him to save them for the Civil War when the Russians left. He avoided the Russians as much as possible and left the heavy fighting to others. He was very close to Osama Bin Laden and Pakistani ISI. During the American war he has offered aid to the Taliban and has given them many of his arms caches including stinger missiles. Normally stingers would be a cause for alarm but the batteries are all expired and they won't fire unless they are rewired which seems to be a little difficult for terrorists. A few years ago someone got one of them to fire at a aircraft in the Persian Gulf. It stuck in the fuselage without exploding Hekmatyar's No. 2 man Ustad Manghal Hussain has been negotiating with the Taliban to merge his Hezb-i-Islami group with Taliban in the war against America. Hekmatyar started as an Islamic radical in his college days when he was leader of Ahkwan-ul-Muslimen that would throw acid into the faces of unveiled women. In 1969 Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and Dr. Syed Burhanudin Rabbani founded the radical group Ahkwan-ul-Muslimen in Afghanistan. Members included Abdul Rasul Sayyaf. Strong links to the Moslem Brotherhood. spongobongo.com