Posted on 12/12/2006 12:22:35 AM PST by jmc1969
Pakistan (AP) - In a rare video message, Afghan insurgent leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar claims that American troops will be forced out of Afghanistan like the Soviets before them.
The leader of the Hezb-e-Islami militant group also touts the Republican Party defeat in last month's U.S. midterm elections as a victory for militants fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq.
"It seems that every bullet that mujahedeen had fired toward the Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan has turned into a vote against Bush," Hekmatyar said in the undated video statement received by Associated Press Television in Pakistan.
"There is no doubt that is a great victory and success for Afghan and Iraqi mujahedeen," he said. "I am convinced that the fate Soviet Union faced is awaiting America as well."
The bespectacled and bearded Hekmatyar, who wore a neat black turban, speaks in an undisclosed location in front of a rattan backdrop. He is wrapped in a light grey shawl.
"Very soon we will see that, God willing, American troops will leave Afghanistan and Iraq with their heads bowed down," Hekmatyar said in the video.
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This probably won't be splashed across the front page of the NYT.
Well, what do you know? Jack Murtha is a friend
of the insurrection.
Thank you cut'n'run Americans!
You don't like Santorum ,Allen and Foley made you queasy. Now look at you friends.
You got some really interesting compadres.
ChiMark wrote: "Well, what do you know? Jack Murtha is a friend of the insurrection."
The terrorists get it. Seriously, they really do understand they won a big victory in November. The MSM and a majority of American voters either understood they were choosing defeat or simply didn't care. Perhaps America can survive another Vietnam-style debacle. Perhaps. Sooner or later, though, we are going to have to pay the price for our decisions.
This guy was sheltered by the Iranian regime for years
I was hoping we wouldn't just abandon the afghanis and feed them back to the taliban. Democrats actually want this?
I guess Hitler made the mistake of not waiting it out.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/12/asia/AS_GEN_Pakistan_Warlord_Tape.php
Well, Hitler was lucky there was no 24x7 CNN, etc. That helps too.
Hitler wasn't in control of the media, you think?
Not American media...that's for sure.
Can't say we didn't see this one coming - of course, the rats will give this clown a quick wink.
Maybe not the nazis but perhaps the communists. They've taken over the democrat pary. Soros is historically an anti-communist, but perhaps its only seemingly
This guy is kidding himself, Afghanistan is still popular, and going fairly well.
We even have the Dutch in there fighting with us, and this guy puts a video tape out from the cave and this means what?
The terrs have a video camera? we take advice from these guys when exactly?
We provide the Afghan people with a somewhat stable environment, we employ the Afghan on the street so he can provide for his family. During my time there in '03-04, the locals were glad that the Taliban were gone. The locals were glad that we were there. The US, Egyptian, and Korean military hospitals provided the Afghans with medical attention.
At Bagram Air Base, the locals lined up in droves, many traveled from Kabul and even farther away. We had so many applications for work that we couldn't employ them all. Gulbiddin Hekmatyar is talking out his a$$.
Hard to believe this was actually reported by AP
You mean US DEMOCRATS will fix the terrorists predicament!
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