{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"Yesterday\u2019s \u201cEvil\u201d warlord is today\u2019s \u201cGood\u201d warlord","author_name":"Matthew J. Nasuti (Former U.S. Air Force Captain)","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article4872.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article4872.html'\u003EYesterday\u2019s \u201cEvil\u201d warlord is today\u2019s \u201cGood\u201d warlord\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOn March 22, 2010, representatives of Afghanistan\u2019s most notorious warlord were hosted at the Presidential Palace in Kabul with the apparent support of the United States and NATO.  Three days later, these same representatives were feted by United Nations special envoy Staffan de Mistura. That warlord is Gulbuddin Hekmatyar whose militia operates out of Pakistan and in several eastern provinces of Afghanistan and who oppose the NATO presence in Afghanistan.  Hekmatyar\u2019s Hesb-e Islami militia (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}