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01/28/2003 Archived Entry: "Troops battle Afghan rebels"

U.S. SOLDIERS/AFGHANS FIGHT BATTLE WITH REBELS: U.S. and Afghan forces battled rebels aligned with renegade leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar today in the largest-scale fighting in Afghanistan in 10 months.

"Hekmatyar was a key guerrilla commander during the 1980s Soviet war in Afghanistan. Later, in the civil war that paved the way for the Taliban takeover, Hekmatyar's men pounded the capital, Kabul, with daily rocket barrages. He lived in exile in Iran during the five years of Taliban rule, and returned after U.S.-led forces ousted the hardline militia. Western intelligence agencies suspect he is getting money from Iran."

Along with fighting Hekmatyar's friends, this is a good argument to begin the rapid destablization of Iran.

Read on.