Dispatches - a letter -Behind Enemy Lines

Your programme pricked an old man’s memory and I had to research my own notes. Some of the faces and names in Dispatches were introduced to me in the early 80’s. If you dissect the information, you may add the weight of Michael Yon with his blog (http://www.michaelyon-online.com/the-road-to-hell.htm) . What concerns me now is the continual reference to insurgency and Taliban.

I quote this from (http://fylde-bootnecks.blogspot.com/2009/10/afghanistan-another-view.html)

I have taken this passage from the article (Michael Yon)... Tim said that Sarobi is “HIG” country, and that it was actually HIG who killed the French. Not the Taliban. HIG, or Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin, was founded by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a warlord who hates the U.S. HIG is a terrorist group and a faction of Hizb-I Islami, all with ties to al Qaeda and Bin Laden. Hekmatyar offered homestead to Bin Laden more than ten years ago. Is this the same Gulbuddin Hekmatyar who was touting his credentials around London in the early 1980's?

It cannot be insurgency because the local elements are such and the Taliban only appeared when the weather was warm. If anything, it is the police and German Lager (not intended as a pun but the means of self protection adopted by the Nato troops) that are the insurgents.

I recall quite vividly sitting in a London location with representatives of Hizb-I Islami, especially one ‘fighter’ with no hands, who explained the link between the fighters and their refuge in Saudi Arabia. All wounded fighters were taken to Saudi for recuperation, hence the link between the Saudi’s who perpetrated the 9/11 atrocity and the separate factions primarily Hizb-I Islami, within Afghanistan.

There was never any proven link with Iraq, which calls to question some of the assertions that former Prime Minister Tony Blair was making then and since the illegal action against that country.