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Hekmatyar
Urges Continued Jihad Against U.S.
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Hekmatyar
urges Muslims to support anti-U.S. Jihad as they supported Jihad
against Soviet forces
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By
Nadeem Shaker, IOL Afghanistan Correspondent
KABUL,
February 20 (IslamOnline.net) – Former Afghan Prime Minister
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, designated Wednesday, February 19, by the U.S. as
“Global Terrorist”, pressed for pursuing Jihad against the U.S.
troops and their allies in Afghanistan.
In
a message, a copy of which received by IslamOnline on Thursday,
February 20, Hekmatyar said Jihad against the Americans is “one step
superior to our (the Afghan people) Jihad against the Russians and
Communists, since the Americans are fighting us and inciting the Jews
to fight us and destroy our country.”
“The
Americans ignited another crusade to annihilate Muslims and are
supporting the aggressor Jews, who seized Al-Qsa Mosque, in
slaughtering our innocent brothers in
Palestine
. The Americans established military bases in Muslim countries, which
they want to control and impose their hegemony on the entire world,”
stressed the veteran Pashtun leader.
He
underlined that anyone who did not believe in Jihad as an obligatory
duty against the Americans was ignorant about the basics of Islam.
The
former Afghan prime minister dismissed as “traitors and
hypocrites” Afghans who helped the Americans kill their people and
destroy mosques and houses.
Hekmatyar
also lamented the killing of the Islamic zeal in the spirits of the
Afghan people, whose history “is replete with Jihad against
dictators,” and who never accepted a religion but Islam.
The
message also made mention of the injustice and humiliation done to the
Afghan people, lambasting the current proxy Afghan government.
Hekmatyar
denounced the people’s council formed after the fall of the
Taliban’s regime as the “fake expanded people’s council.”
The
message also highlighted the obscene
U.S.
media and cultural campaign directed at the Afghan people, noting that
it was only promoting pornography and debauchery in the name of art
and democracy.
Hekmatyar
stressed the importance of booting out all foreign troops from
Afghanistan
, calling for forming an Afghan government and parliament through free
choice by the Afghan people.
“True
representatives of the Afghan people are entitled to say their word on
the future system, political parties and public figures and the role
they can play in the days ahead. The Afghan people will neither accept
foreigners nor agent governments (to represent them),” he said.
“The
entire world should be mindful of the fact that those people (the
Afghans) did not accept communism and communists, backed up by
Russians, who failed to get a foothold in their country.
“Those
people sacrificed one and half million martyrs in their uphill war
against the Russians, and that’ s why the Americans would not be
able to impose their puppet government on the Afghan people, who adore
Jihad and are proud of martyrdom,” averred Hekmatyar.
He
concluded his message by calling on the Afghan people to fight the
U.S. troops and their allies in Afghanistan and help the mujahadeen by
keeping a tight lid on their military secrets and movements.
Hekmatyar
also exhorted the Islamic nation to back this Jihad just like it
supported Jihad against the Soviet forces.
Washington
Designate Hekmatyar as “Global Terrorist”
The
U.S. on Wednesday linked Hekmatyar to Osama ben Laden’s al-Qaeda
network and Taliban.
"The
U.S. Government has information indicating that Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
has participated in and supported terrorist acts committed by al-Qaeda
and the Taliban," claimed State Department spokesman Richard
Boucher.
"Because
of his terrorist activity, the United States is designating Hekmatyar
as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist."
The
designation, jointly agreed by the State Department and the Treasury,
will lead to the seizure of any assets held by Hekmatyar in the United
States, or by U.S.-affiliated companies and financial institutions.
State
Department official said the United States had no information on the
current whereabouts of Hekmatyar.
After
the fall of the last Soviet-installed government in 1993, Hekmatyar
served briefly as prime minister under then-president Burhanuddin
Rabbani, before falling out with him, and laying siege to Kabul.
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