Posted on 10/07/2003 12:58:01 PM PDT by mikegi
Afghan authorities and NATO-led peacekeepers have arrested a commander for a renegade warlord thought to be fighting alongside Taliban and al Qaeda remnants.
Ghulam Rabbani Abu Bakr, from the Hizb-e-Islami faction of Afghanistan's one-time Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, was arrested in an early morning raid in Kabul.
Squadron Leader Paul Rice, a spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force, says this is a significant arrest.
Hekmatyar's faction, which devastated Kabul with rockets in the early 1990s killing tens of thousands of people, has been linked to a series of attacks in the city since the fall of the Taliban in late 2001.
These include a car bombing on September 5th last year that killed at least 26 people and wounded about 150 others.
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Hekmatyar's faction, which devastated Kabul with rockets in the early 1990s killing tens of thousands of people, has been linked to a series of attacks in the city since the fall of the Taliban in late 2001.
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Afghan authorities and NATO-led peacekeepers have arrested a commander for a renegade warlord thought to be fighting alongside Taliban and al Qaeda remnants.
Don't you love it, Remmants of the Taliban and al Qaeda.
The bad guys walked right in to a veritable quagmire.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
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I love it when the bad guys have bad days like this!!
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