This is very good news. I really hate the HIG, and anything that pulls their teeth is fine by me. When the Afghan government put the amnesty program in place (only for those deemed salvagable) - we knew it would work. But I never expected the HIG to have this many come in from the cold. Now if only ol' Gulbuddin (he's the "G" in "HIG") could get his butt capped...
[Thanks to Captain's Quarters]
UPDATE: I added the "Honk if you're HIG" picture of a patrol I went on.
What's a HIG?
ReplyDeleteHIG = Hezb e-Islami Gulbuddin (Party of Islam, Hekmatyr Gulbuddin's faction). Mr. G was quite the fighter against the Russians, then the Taliban, now us. Many figured out he was nuts while fighting the Taliban and started to scurry away - but he is a wiley one, even if he is running out of followers...
ReplyDeleteI don't know how he (Major John) remembers all that stuff.
ReplyDeleteI think he makes up the spelling knowing that the rest of us don't have a clue and the only place Dari and Pashtu are really known and used are half a world away.
Signed-
A simple ferengi (I'm sure I spelled that wrong)
IP
Ha! I had forgotten about being "ferengi". I wonder if the Star Trek folks were making a nice play on words with that name...
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