US to attack Afghanistan soon

 

Hamid Gul

Thursday, 26 October, 2000

ISLAMABAD (NNI) Former Director General Inter Services Intelligence, (ISI) Lt General (retd) Hamid Gul has said that the United States wants to carry out immediate attack on Afghanistan, reports Radio Tehran.

Gul has said that US has alerted its troops in Turkey, Bahrain and Qatar which shows that US President wants to attack Afghanistan before elections. He said that US will target Osama bin Laden’s camps in Afghanistan within three or four days.

Gul said that if US could not attack Afghanistan within next few days then it will take some action against Afghanistan after new elections in America. He said that Clinton’s threat is aimed at getting more favour of the Americans for his presidential candidate in the elections.

Hamid Gul said that Middle East situation is a big hurdle for US and Clinton does not want to open two fronts in Muslim world simultaneously.