From: u8800914@cs.uow.edu.au (Mohammad Salim Olime)
Subject: Hekmatyar an Awlia-ul-lah or MUSAD collaborator
Keywords: HEKMATYAR MUSAD
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 07:50:13 GMT


This is an extract from an article titled "Israel aided Afghans , sent Iran
arms via Pakistan" appeared in Israeli Foreign Affairs (IFA) journal 
vol VIII No.1 January 18,1992.
IFA claims to be " an independent research report on Israel's diplomatic and
military activities around the world."
I apologize for not being able to type the whole article which is a bit
long. You can get the article from you library if you wish.
The article's ISSN no.0883-9832 (if it means any thing to you).
PS: The square brackets are mine but the normal brackets are from the article
itself.
Here it goes:

Israel and the CIA delivered hundreds of millions of dollars worth of arms 
to Iran through Pakistan during the mid 1980's  and the Israeli team that 
coordinated the  shipments in Pakistan also trained a notorious Afghan 
guerrilla group, the Far Eastern Economic Review reported last month.
[dec 1991]

These are without doubt the most explosive allegations yet about the convert 
arms sales Israel and the US made to Iran during the 1980s . But the Hong Kong 
based magazine's report is likely to be received with skepticism(if it is 
ever noticed at all ) because it is based on the  allegations of the 
controversial former Israeli intelligence Officer Ari Ben-Menashe
(IFA 12/90,7/91,8/91,9/91,10-11/91) and former and serving Pakistan official 
who declined to be identified by name . The Pakistanis quoted by the magazine 
confirm Ben-Menashe's claims that an Israeli group was stationed in Pakistan 
and worked with Hezb-i-Islami , the Islamic fundamentalist guerrilla group led 
by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
The Pakistanis also affirm that massive consignments of weapons went through 
Pakistan to Iran.
But they do not corroborate Ben-Menashe's weightiest allegation that in 1985 
Israeli and Pakistani intelligence cooaborated in the diversion to Iran of 
weapons that US Congress had bought for the Mujaheddin; as the Afghan 
guerrillas fighting the Soviet-backed government in Kabul are called. 
The deal was done to generate funds for the anti-Nicaraguan contras after 
Congress  forbid the CIA to continue supporting them , Ben-Menashe told the 
magazine.

[unrelated staff deleted]

The magazine[Far Eastern Economic Review] notes that  Ben-Menashe's 
allegations of a diversion of US aid to the Afghan Mujaheddin are in sync 
with its own reporting in March 1987 that $700 million worth of aid earmarked 
by Congress for the Mujaheddin had disappeared. It also notes a Nov 27 1985 
New York Times report that Jonathan Jay Pollard , since convicted of spying 
for Israel , told former US Rep John Le Boutillier that the CIA was diverting 
funds from the Afghanistan Programme to the Contras.
In its December 16 story, Far Eastern Economic Review says it obtained 
confirmation from Pakistani intelligence sources "that significant quantities 
of weapons meant for the Mujaheddin were diverted to Iran . Other sources in 
Pakistan close to the Iranian government and Pakistani intelligence confirm 
the presence of a secret Israeli military team in Islamabad during at least 
1985".
One of  the magazine's Pakistani sources said that several members of  the 
Israeli team died while engaged in operations with the Mujaheddin .
Ari Ben-Menashe claimed that an Israeli military logistics and advisory 
team was based in Pakistan between 1983 and 1986 , overseeing repeated 
Israeli arms shipments to Iran and that he himself was in Peshawar , 
the Pakistani gateway to  Afghanistan , in 1985 to supervise a large arms 
shipment to Iran . Ben Menashe said he stayed with other members of the 
Israeli logistics team at the Park hotel. He also said that in 1984 he met 
in London with Gen. Fazle Huq , who was  in charge of the Pakistani military's 
Afghanistan related operations.
The training the Israelis gave the Mujaheddin involved military tactics and 
the use of sophisticated weapons , Ben-Menashe told Lawrence Lifschultz , 
author of the article in Far Eastern Economic Review . Be Menashe said that ,
at the request of  the Pakistanis , the Israelis worked most closely with 
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hizbi Islami , the Afghan group consistently favoured
by Pakistan. 
After the Soviet Union withdrew its troops from  Afghanistan in 1989 , critics 
of the CIA's continued war against the government in Kabul often focused on 
Hekmatyar , who was not only a rabid theocrat , but rabidly anti-Western as 
well .(during the war last year Hekmatyar supported Iraq) Another of  
Hekmatyar's endearing qualities was his business sideline : drug trafficking . 
In 1989 US officials said they were warning the Mujaheddin organizations to 
limit the size of  their opium crops . And US intelligence analysts 
acknowledged their "suspicions" that "planes , trucks and mules ferrying 
American military equipment into Afghanistan are also used to ship drugs to 
Pakistan . The Pakistani military was also involved in the drug trade. 
European police repeatedly identified Gen. Fazle Huq as the man responsible 
for creating a tolerant climate for norcotics trafficking .

[unrelated staff deleted]
 

Israel's intimate relationship with the radical Afghan guerrillas is not any 
more w than its all-out efforts to aid the radical Islamic Republic of 
Iran(including convincing the Reagon administration that it could trade arms 
for hostages) .Iran's strident condemnations of Zionism and Israel during the 
1980s surpassed any utterances of  the Mujaheddin . "Hekmatyar knew exactly 
who he was working  with " Be-Menashe told far Eastern Economic Review .

That is it.