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9/5/2002 (16:09) |
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Frankly I am becoming suspicious of the motives of MER. While supporting the Arabs and Palestininas against Israel and the US, the drumbeat of defeatist propoganda from this source has become ever louder.
The message from MER is that thew US and Israek are invincible and resistance is futile. And this at a time when the US is more isolated than ever before internationally and its economy is in SERIOUS TROUBLE.
Not to speak of the hundreds of US troops killed in Afghnistan during recent months. Losses which are being covered up by the Pentagon and the Zionist controlled press.
The US and Israel are indeed formidable adversaries. But they are no more invincible than was the German army during World War 2.
Hekmatyar Calls For Jihad Against US Troops In Afghanistan
Sep 05, 2002
Source: Islam Online, News Agencies
In a tape recording addressed to the Afghan people, former Afghan prime minister and Islamic Party leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar called on the Pashtun
tribes in southeastern Afghanistan to revolt against U.S. troops in the country, and denied any links with Taliban or Al-Qaeda, stressing that: “Our only aim
is for foreign troops to quit Afghanistan and for the Afghan people to decide their own future.”
Hekmatyar’s call comes just a few days after IslamOnline published a statement it received via e-mail from an Afghan group calling itself ‘The Muslim
Mujahedin’s Secret Army’, in which it claimed responsibility for recent attacks against U.S. troops in Afghanistan, and vowed to continue its attacks in
retaliation for the U.S. brutal murder of innocent Afghan civilians.
In the tape recording, made available to the media Tuesday evening, September 3, Hekmatyar said: “We announce our full solidarity with the people of the
southeastern provinces; we condemn U.S. atrocities against our people; and we call on all Afghans to stand up against Americans like they did with the
Russians,” stressing that Afghanistan’s problems could only be solved by popular resistance to the American presence.
The exiled Islamic Party leader explained that Americans are fighting Pashtuns in the provinces of Paktia, Paktika, Khost, Nangarhar, Konar, Kandahar,
Helmond, Rozgan “because they realize Pashtuns hold on to their faith, defend religious sanctities and national interests and reject foreign oppression. It
is no coincidence,” he continued, “that 85% of U.S. military operations have been in Pashtun areas, where U.S. troops shelled villages, pounded mosques,
searched homes for weapons and ammunition, erected checkpoints in public roads, and detained Pashtun leaders and chiefs in its Bagram base or in
Guantanamo.”
Urging Pashtuns to carry on with Jihad, Hekmatyar said: “You set an example with your Jihad against the Russians; do the same with the Americans,”
reminding them that the attacks on U.S. troops in Khost and the massive anti-U.S. demonstrations are evidence the people of Paktia are bent on starting
Jihad in Afghanistan. “If the U.S administration insists there is no Taliban or Al-Qaeda presence in Afghanistan, why then is it adamant on accusing the
Islamic Party of links with Taliban?” he asked, himself giving the answer: “The U.S. simply seeks to justify its ways with the Islamic Party in a bid to eliminate
it just as it did Taliban.”
“If the Americans were able to topple the Taliban regime, they will never be able to occupy Afghanistan forever,” said Hekmatyar. “You can see for your
eyes how resistance to the U.S. presence is spreading out. The Russians failed to fight Mujahedin with 120,000 Russian soldiers and hundreds of
thousands of Afghan militias. How can a mere 15,000 Americans, with the help of a small shunned group of collaborators, stand against popular
resistance?” he told the Afghans.
Hekmatyar added that American troops, with the help of Afghan collaborators, killed more than 700 POWs after disarming them and binding their hands to
their backs. Those of them who resorted to caves were burned inside them as ordered by the U.S. commander who did not want any Taliban POWs from
Kunduz.
Analysts told IslamOnline that Hekmatyar has imitated late Imam Khomeini in his use of a tape recording to mobilize the Afghan people who are largely
illiterate, stressing that the means is quite effective and easily widespread in Afghanistan where there are no papers. Finding a connection between
Hekmatyar’s address and the statement of ‘The Muslim Mujahedin’s Secret Army’, an expert in Afghan affairs said: “It is very likely Hekmatyar’s Islamic Party
is linked to the Secret army.”.
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