File under “Enemies, emboldened”
Three groans for last month’s al-Democrat victory:
In a rare video message, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a renegade Afghan warlord allied with the Taliban, claimed that American troops will be forced out of Afghanistan like the Soviets before them.
The leader of the Hezb-e-Islami militant group also touted the Republican Party defeat in last month’s midterm elections as a victory for militants fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq.
“It seems that every bullet that mujahedeen had fired toward the Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan has turned into a vote against Bush,” Hekmatyar said in the undated video statement received by AP Television News in Pakistan.
“There is no doubt that is a great victory and success for Afghan and Iraqi mujahedeen,” he said.
Nope, none at all.
(Via AP)
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