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  •   And Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who heads an opposition group known as the Hezb-i-Islami, dismissed the peace initiative as a government move to deceive the people.

    Afghan President Karzai Pushes for Talks With Taliban 2010

  • Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, said it was up to Karzai to decide whether to try to reconcile with insurgent groups, such as Hezb-i-Islami, one of three that is fighting foreign troops.

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED ladylove 2010

  • Sarah Ladbury, Testing hypotheses of radicalization in Afghanistan: why do men join the Taliban and Hezb-i-Islami?

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • Sarah Ladbury, Testing hypotheses of radicalization in Afghanistan: why do men join the Taliban and Hezb-i-Islami?

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • Sarah Ladbury, Testing hypotheses of radicalization in Afghanistan: why do men join the Taliban and Hezb-i-Islami?

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • Sarah Ladbury, Testing hypotheses of radicalization in Afghanistan: why do men join the Taliban and Hezb-i-Islami?

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • However, 80 percent of the billions of dollars of US aid money sent to help the Afghan "freedom fighters" ended up in the hands of Hezb-i-Islami, an extremist minority faction, which slaughtered many thousands of Afghan civilians and is currently allied with the Taliban and attacking US forces.

    Stephen Zunes: Libya: Was Armed Revolt and Western Intervention the Only Option? Stephen Zunes 2011

  • Sarah Ladbury, Testing hypotheses of radicalization in Afghanistan: why do men join the Taliban and Hezb-i-Islami?

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • Mr. WEINBAUM: The heart of the problem here is that the very people who we have seen as our enemies, like the Afghan Taliban, the so-called Haqqani network, the Hezb-i-Islami, these are all insurgent groups that were fighting in Afghanistan, that these very people are not viewed as the enemy by the Pakistan government.

    A Look At Fraying Relations Between U.S., Pakistan 2010

  • Sarah Ladbury, Testing hypotheses of radicalization in Afghanistan: why do men join the Taliban and Hezb-i-Islami?

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

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