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	ThreatsWatch.Org: RapidRecon: Hikmatyar Arrested in Afghanistan
		Afghan and Coalition troops acted on intel that Gulbuddin Hikmatyar was in his compound and the Hizb-i-Islami commander and al-Qaeda ally was arrested in eastern Afghanistan today, reports are beginning to show.
		The commander of the Hizb-i-Islami militia in Hafezan in the eastern province of Nangarhar, Gulbuddin Hikmatyar, was arrested after credible intelligence led Afghan and coalition forces to his compound, the statement said.
		Hikmatyar, the former prime minister of Afghanistan, announced jihad or holy war against what he called the US invasion of Afghanistan four and half years ago and the joint opposition of the Afghan government by Taliban and al-Qaeda in the fight against coalition forces.
	rapidrecon.threatswatch.org /2006/09/hikmatyar-arrested-in-afghanis (270 words)

	Sobaka :: Dossier: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Hekmatyar was there for all of it: the rise of the Islamist movement and the Soviet invasion, the exile in Peshawar, the triumphant return at the head of the largest Mujahedin faction in the country and the collapse of the Afghan opposition which gave flight to the white flag of the Taleban.
		Gulbuddin Hekmatyar wasn't just a part of those events: he embodied them, just as he embodied the relative merits and flaws of the Mujahedin during the Afghan War.
		Gulbuddin Hekmatyar was born in 1947, the son of nomads newly arrived in Konduz province from the south.
	www.diacritica.com /sobaka/dossier/hekmatyar.html (3573 words)

	Gulbuddin Hekmatyar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (born 1947 in Imam Saheb, Kunduz province, Afghanistan) is an Afghan warlord.
		The Hizb-i Islami of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar espouses an extremist religious and anti-Western ideology.
		On the role of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and the emergence of the Taliban, see Human Rights Watch, Backgrounder on Afghanistan: History of the War, October 2001, [1].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gulbuddin_Hikmatyar (1117 words)

	A Pure
		By August of 1992, the war began again, as Gulbuddin Hikmatyar's Hezb-i-Islami took on the Professor's regime, and the ensuing instability resulted in the final demise of Najibullah's government in December.
		But Hikmatyar was a poor ally, because he continued his terror, in alliance with the Hezb-i-Wahdat and in opposition to Rabbani (whose troops remained in the command of the late Ahmed Shah Masood, but who worked in cooperation with the ex-communist, Dostam).
		Hikmatyar, with Dostam, then with Masood, then Rabbani in the background - all the while the Taliban consolidated power, took Mazar-i-Sharif in 1997 and then finally Kabul.
	www.zmag.org /forwardpast.htm (1087 words)

	KTLA The WB \| Where Los Angeles Lives \| U.S. war turns ex-allies into enemies-at-arms
		Not too long ago, Hikmatyar, 53, was a CIA poster boy, a feared and respected mujahedeen leader in the jihad against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
		Both Rabbani and Hikmatyar were ousted by the Taliban in the mid-1990s, but these days the two former allies are sworn enemies, with Rabbani eager to do the bidding of his new American backers while Hikmatyar says he is sending his holy warriors "to stand shoulder to shoulder" with their Taliban brothers.
		Like bin Laden, Hikmatyar was a beneficiary of American largess when the Carter administration decided in 1979 to orchestrate an enormous covert operation to arm and finance a holy war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
	ktla.trb.com /search/chi-0110250274oct25,0,6078204.story (1273 words)

	Afghanistan Factor in Central and South Asian Politics
		Its leader, Gulbuddin Hikmatyar who was born in Kunduz in 1947, is a Kharuti Pashtun of Gilzai origin.
		The Hizb-e-Islami of Hikmatyar, which is believed to have about 30,000 trained fighters, has close ties with the Jamat-i-Islami of Pakistan, Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan and Hizbul Mujahideen, Al Barq, Harkat-ul-Mujahedin and Jamat-i-Islami of Kashmir.
		Though not a mullah himself, Hikmatyar is a modern Islamist committed to the ideology of Islamic state in Afghanistan.
	www.ikashmir.net /afghanistan/appendix1.html (959 words)

	Afghanistan Factor in Central and South Asian Politics
		Its leader, Gulbuddin Hikmatyar who was born in Kunduz in 1947, is a Kharuti Pashtun of Gilzai origin.
		The Hizb-e-Islami of Hikmatyar, which is believed to have about 30,000 trained fighters, has close ties with the Jamat-i-Islami of Pakistan, Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan and Hizbul Mujahideen, Al Barq, Harkat-ul-Mujahedin and Jamat-i-Islami of Kashmir.
		Though not a mullah himself, Hikmatyar is a modern Islamist committed to the ideology of Islamic state in Afghanistan.
	www.kashmir-information.com /Afghanistan/Appendix1.html (847 words)

	Pakistan: Wild-Card Spies ( Are the ISI's ties to the Taliban a help or hindrance? )
		The pending alliance of Gulbuddin Hikmatyar with the Taliban is quite telling because of Hikmatyar's ISI connections.
		Hikmatyar was the original anti-American fundamentalist in the Soviet-Afghan War who was fully supported by Pakistan's ISI.
		Under Hikmatyar and Massoud the country spiraled into a state of near-anarchy, and at this time the Taliban arose promising to return to law and order, which in many instances they actually accomplished.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/558175/posts (875 words)

	The If(s) and When(s) of Zahir Shah's Return
		Reports by the Minister of Interior and the Kabul Police Department, both at the hands of Jamiat Party members, state that the leader of the Islamic Party, Gulbuddin Hikmatyar is behind the conspiracies.
		Hikmatyar's whereabouts, after the closure of his office in Iran, are unknown.
		Reports suggest that around 300 people who were arrested belong to Hikmatyar's party and evidence captured from them suggest a greater plot against the former King, the Loya Jirga and American and foreign troops in Afghanistan.
	users.tns.net /~parwin/politics/countrycorner/CCorner2/DR040502.htm (806 words)

	Turkey's Spiritual Submission - March 23, 2005 - The New York Sun
		Hikmatyar has long-established ties with Osama bin Laden and is responsible for offering to shelter him in Afghanistan after he fled Sudan in 1996.
		Hikmatyar pledged allegiance with the spiritual leader of the Taliban, Mullah Omar, to launch a guerrilla war on the Afghan government and American troops there.
		Hikmatyar was named in Executive Order 13224 as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" during the same month that Mr.
	www.nysun.com /article/10985 (639 words)

	Backgrounder on Afghanistan: History of the War (Human Rights Watch Backgrounder, October 2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Most fought with Pashtun factions that had the strongest support from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, the Hizb-i Islami of Gulbuddin Hikmatyar and Ittihad-i Islami of Abdul Rasul Sayyaf.
		Rejecting the arrangement, Hikmatyar launched massive and indiscriminate rocket attacks on Kabul that continued intermittently until he was forced out of the Kabul area in February 1995.
		In January 1994, Hikmatyar joined forces with Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, head of a powerful Uzbek militia that had been allied with Najibullah until early 1992, to oust Rabbani and his defense minister, Ahmad Shah Massoud, launching full-scale civil war in Kabul.
	www.hrw.org /backgrounder/asia/afghan-bck1023.htm (2535 words)

	Print Story
		A couple of months after Erdogan was elected to office, he was pictured in the Turkish daily newspaper, Star Gazette, sitting with Hikmatyar, who was kneeling at his feet.
		Hikmatyar has long-established ties with Osama bin Laden and is responsible for sheltering him in Afghanistan after he fled Sudan in 1996.
		Following the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, Hikmatyar pledged allegiance with the spiritual leader of the Taliban, Mullah Omar, to launch a guerrilla war on the Afghan government and American troops there.
	www.hellenicnews.com /print.html?newsid=3551%E2%8C%A9=US (497 words)

	Middle East Report 221: Afghanistan in the Balance, by Patricia Gossman
		Hikmatyar's forces also had a reputation for terror tactics in Peshawar, Pakistan.
		Hikmatyar was opposed to any role in Afghanistan for the former king, whose regime he held responsible for corruption and for the encroachment of un-Islamic culture in Afghanistan.
		With Iranian support, the factions came together as the Northern Alliance.(17) Desperate efforts by UN negotiators to remove Najibullah from the country and assemble a transitional council collapsed as Dostum's forces seized control of Kabul airport, preventing Najibullah's departure.
	www.merip.org /mer/mer221/221_gossman.html (4450 words)

	Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Gulbuddin Hikmatyar founded Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) as a faction of the Hizb-I Islami party in 1977, and it was one of the major mujahedin groups in the war against the Soviets.
		In the early 1990s, Hikmatyar ran several terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and was a pioneer in sending mercenary fighters to other Islamic conflicts.
		Hikmatyar offered to shelter Bin Ladin after the latter fled Sudan in 1996.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/para/hig.htm (128 words)

	Turkey: A New Al-Qaeda State?
		The caption reads: "Taliban in the armchair, kneeling is the Prime Minister." It is important to recognize the significance of sitting at one's feet in Islamic tradition, it implies spiritual submission.
		Hikmatyar has long-established ties with Osama bin Ladin and is responsible for offering to shelter bin Ladin in
		Hikmatyar was named in Executive Order 13224 as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" the same month Erdogan was elected.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=17483 (576 words)

	Crisis of Impunity - Pakistan's Support Of The Taliban
		Hikmatyar's failure to defeat the Afghan government forces under Defense Minister Massoud and take Kabul left Pakistani policy temporarily at a loss in 1993-94 and searching for a new partner.
		In recent years the Taliban replaced Gulbuddin Hikmatyar as the instrument of its attainment....Policy-makers in Islamabad assume that a Taliban-dominated government in Kabul will be permanently friendly towards Pakistan.
		Designation as a terrorist state would have meant the termination of international financial assistance to Pakistan, two-thirds of whose budget is funded by international loans and credits, resulting in the near-collapse of the Pakistani economy.
	hrw.org /reports/2001/afghan2/Afghan0701-02.htm (6617 words)

	BORR Terrorism News: Turkey: A New Al-Qaeda State?
		A couple months after Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was elected to office representing the Justice and Development Party, the Turkish daily Star Gazette ran a photo on July 10, 2003, which shows Afghan jihad leader (and Taliban and al-Qaeda ally) Gulbuddin Hikmatyar sitting with two men kneeling at his feet.
		Hikmatyar has long-established ties with Osama bin Ladin and is responsible for offering to shelter bin Ladin in Afghanistan after he fled Sudan in 1996.
		Following September 11, 2001, he pledged allegiance with the spiritual leader of the Taliban, Mullah Omar to launch a guerrilla war on the Afghan government and U.S. troops there.
	www.borrull.org /e/noticia.php?id=47285 (664 words)

	The Public Affairs Magazine- Newsinsight.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		28 April 2003: Pakistan-backed Gulbuddin Hikmatyar captured pockets of six districts of Afghanistan’s Helmand and Nimrouz provinces until his forces were dislodged by the Afghan army with US air cover last week.
		Hikmatyar who has declared war on the US is thought to be based in the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan and has joined forces with remnants of the Taliban and Al Qaeda with assistance from the Inter-Services Intelligence.
		Following the intelligence tip off, investigating US army scouts were fired upon in the pockets under Hikmatyar’s control, after which American commanders mobilised the former Northern Alliance troops.
	www.indiareacts.com /nati2.asp?recno=1949&ctg=World (298 words)

	MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Biography: Gulbuddin Hikmatyar is the founder of the Hizb-I Islami Party and the splinter group Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin (HIG).
		Born in the mid-1940s, Hikmatyar is an ethnic Pushtun.
		Although it ousted his party from power, it is claimed that Hikmatyar retains ties with both the Taliban and Usama bin Laden.
	www.tkb.org /KeyLeader.jsp?memID=5934 (208 words)

	H-Net* U.S. war turns ex-allies into enemies-at-arms
		"We believe that the Americans are doomed to repeat the Russian experience in Afghanistan." Not too long ago, Hikmatyar, 53, was a CIA poster boy, a feared and respected mujahedeen leader in the jihad against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
		We gave them 1.5 million martyrs." The way Hikmatyar sees it, U.S. power and influence were on the wane in the post-Vietnam era.
		According to the Tehran Times, "Hikmatyar's forces were easily distinguished from Taliban forces because their beards are shorter than Taliban beards." ____________________________________________________________ Nokia Game is on again.
	www.mail-archive.com /hizb@hizbi.net/msg30452.html (1353 words)

	Police restrain Taliban attacking RAWA procession
		The prominent feature of the RAWA procession, which traversed a distance of two kilometers, was the hanging of the effigies of five Afghan leaders atop a vehicle.
		The participants, holding effigies of Uzbek militia war-lord General Rashid Dostum, former president Professor Rabbani, Gulbuddin Hikmatyar, Khalili and Mullah Rabbani and chanted slogans against the Taliban militia, leaders of warring factions and foreign interference in the war-town country.
		They alleged that fundamentalist, whether Rabbani, Khalili, Akbari, Gulbuddin, Masoud, Sayyaf, Mullah Omar, Mullah Rabbani, or non-fundamentalist warlords such as Dostum, are all identical in their odious entities and none can in any way be deemed any better than the other.
	www.rawa.org /28press1.htm (2738 words)

	Afghan Warlord jailed following anti-terrorist investigation - Metropolitan Police Service
		Working in the challenging conditions of Afghanistan, the investigators established that Zardad had been the military commander of the Sarobi region and had considerable political influence during the years between the Soviet withdrawal and the Taliban taking power.
		He set up military checkpoints on the road with which he could control traffic, goods and people heading from Pakistan to Kabul and it was at these checkpoints that many of the offences took place.
		Kabul was controlled by Hikmatyar's rival in the former Afghan government, President Burhanuddin Rabbini and control of goods to Kabul was used to pressurise Rabbini's regime.
	cms.met.police.uk /met/layout/set/print/content/view/full/1373 (650 words)

	Former Afghan Premier Calls Upon Afghans To Rally For Defence Of Islam - Pravda.Ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In an interview to Qatar's Al-Jazeera TV company, Gulbuddin Hikmatyar, Afghanistan's head of the cabinet overthrown by the Taliban and leader of the Islamic Party of Afghanistan (IPA), said Sunday that all the Afghan leaders should see their goal in defending the country and Islam rather than struggling for power.
		According to earlier statements made by Gulbuddin Hikmatyar now living in Iran, the IPA will join the Taliban in a bid to repel US aggression against Afghanistan.
		Local observers believe he is thus seeking to make his comeback to the political scene as successor to Taliban-executed Pashtu leader Abdul Khaq and to win over to his side some Afghan tribes and groupings from the Northern Alliance.
	english.pravda.ru /hotspots/2001/10/28/19413.html (290 words)

	What is Wrong With Karzai?
		Among the first group one can name Professor Rabbani the former leader of a Mujahideen government in Afghanistan and Gulbuddin Hikmatyar, his controversial prime minister now in exile in Iran.
		Among the second group are many will-wishers of Afghanistan who wanted to see the country delivered from a group of reactionaries who ruled it in the name of religion.
		Other reports referred to a request by Iran from Hikmatyar leader of the Islamic Party of Afghanistan, who had been giving interviews against the present regime in Afghanistan saying that his country was under foreign domination, to leave Iran.
	users.tns.net /~parwin/politics/countrycorner/CCorner2/DR020902.htm (1402 words)

	[ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
		Qutbodin Hilal, a member of the central council of Gulbuddin Hikmatyar's Hizb-i Islami party, on 16 December told Mashhad radio's Dari-language service that the deployment of an Afghan national army would make the presence of foreign forces unnecessary.
		Nevertheless, there are persistent reports that Hikmatyar, Al-Qaeda, and Taliban elements are working together against the Afghan central government.
		It should be noted, furthermore, that the Hizb-i Islami has splintered into several factions, and the faction of which Hilal is a member hopes to play a role in Afghanistan's transitional government.
	www.rferl.org /newsline/2002/12/6-SWA/swa-161202.asp?po=y (2364 words)

	The Agonist: Hekmatyar In The News Again
		And this via The Asia Times from May 20: This restructuring took final shape as soon as the US war on Iraq was over.
		The Taliban, al-Qaeda, the Hezb-i-Islami led by Gulbuddin Hikmatyar and other anti-US mujahideen commanders have now restructured into a new outfit called Saiful Muslameen (Sword of Muslims).
		The command structure is entirely local, and all foreigners are now fighting along with their Afghan commanders.
	www.agonist.org /archives/002824.html (153 words)

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