Exiled Afghan Says He’s Got Plan to Fight U.S.
Radical Islamic moujahedeen leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar said he was in talks with Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban and some of its opponents in the Northern Alliance on forming a “united front” against the U.S.
It was not clear what progress, if any, he had made.
Hekmatyar, exiled leader of the Hezb-i-Islami party, said in Iran that his talks were not aimed at creating a new government.
“We are negotiating to form a united front to defend Afghanistan from war and attacks and to find a solution for the crisis in Afghanistan,” he said from Tehran, where he lives in exile.
A Hezb-i-Islami party representative in Pakistan said last week that the party was deeply split and dismissed Hekmatyar’s calls to fight with the Taliban against the United States.
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