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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...surprisingly, the U.S. wants Iran to end Hekmatyar's activities. And Iran's reformist elected government appears inclined to comply. They shut down his offices two weeks ago and the country's top foreign policy body, the Supreme National Security Council, voted last week to expel Hekmatyar from Iran. But Iranian media reports suggested the delay in implementing that decision resulted from urgent appeals from Washington and Kabul to hold off on expelling him. The Iranian daily Qods recently quoted an official source saying that "Karzai has asked Tehran to keep Hekmatyar in Iran so that Kabul is always informed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran, Afghanistan Juggle Hot Potato Hekmatyar | 2/23/2002 | See Source »

...Presumably, though, not if he's headed home. Sources close to Iran's Foreign Ministry claim Tehran will expel Hekmatyar from the country next week, following the visit of Hamid Karzai. And close associates expect that his next home may be in Baghdad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran, Afghanistan Juggle Hot Potato Hekmatyar | 2/23/2002 | See Source »

...Arafat. He is the greatest obstacle to peace in the Middle East, unfortunately. We are facing a war that has been forced upon us, a war of terror. The aim of terrorists and those who enable these terrible acts to be carried out without disturbance--their aim is to expel us altogether from here, to bring us to total despair and loss of hope. We are facing this hard war, and we regard Mr. Arafat as guilty of everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sharon Speaks: We Are Facing A War | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

...control the terrorist net in Pakistan. The government has long armed and approved jihadis in Kashmir, though it admits only to providing diplomatic and moral support. The jihadis are considered freedom fighters by Pakistan but employ what India refers to as "cross-border terrorism" in their drive to expel India from the territory that Pakistan also claims. After Sept. 11, the Pakistani intelligence service sent signals to the Kashmir saboteurs to cool it. Yet India believes one of the three main radical groups almost certainly dispatched the suicide gunmen last week on their brazen assault against the center of India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Al-Qaeda Find a New Nest? | 12/16/2001 | See Source »

...example, there's a drawing of Taliban chief Mohammed Omar's face on an Afghan Kuchi dog being held on a leash by bin Laden. Printed on it in Dari and Pashto, the country's two languages: "Who really runs the Taliban?" On the back, with the inscription "Expel the foreign rulers and live in peace," bin Laden moves pawns with Taliban faces on a chessboard. (Chess, which the Taliban also banned, was once enormously popular in Afghanistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Using Psywar Against the Taliban | 12/10/2001 | See Source »

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