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Rebel Afghan commanders threaten to join Osama |
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by KJM Varma (PTI)
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19 Sep 2001
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The American efforts to build anti-Taliban coalition in Afghanistan to fight the fundamentalist militia from within appears to be floundering with anti-Taliban Afghan commanders and opposition leaders threatening to join their foe to ward off any US and allied attacks on Afghanistan. |
The American efforts to build anti-Taliban coalition in Afghanistan to fight the fundamentalist militia from within appears to be floundering with anti-Taliban Afghan commanders and opposition leaders threatening to join their foe to ward off any US and allied attacks on Afghanistan.
A leading figure in Afghanistan's anti-Taliban opposition, Gulbuddin Hekmatiyar who is currently based in Tehran and other anti-Taliban commanders in Pakistan have openly threatened to join wanted Saudi dissident, Osama bin Laden if the US attacks the militia.
With prominent Afghan rebel commander, Ahmad Shah Masood dying in a recent suicide attacks on him allegedly executed by bin Laden's associates, Hekmatiyar too announced that he would be joining Taliban soon to reinforce its hands to fight US aggression.
Hikmathiyar, in an interview to BBC in Tehran, said that Americans are wrong to blame Osama for the attacks in US.
He said Americans had no right to attack Afghanistan and warned that if they did, his and other groups would fight agaist them.
Another Afghan Commander told Pakistan daily The News the forces of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance till now headed by Masood, would also join the fight against Americans.
Abudul Sultanji, stated to be an Afghan commander, told the daily "though the Afghans fight among themselves, whenever the foreign forces attack them they give up their differences and joined hands against common enemy. The North Alliance are also Afghans and know their own traditions".
http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/190901/dlfor76.asp |
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