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Gulbadeen Hikmatyar, a former mujahideen leader, has renewed his call to Afghans to take part in a ''jihad'' heavenly-minded war and ''oust aggressive forces'' from Afghanistan, the Afghan Islamic Pres said Wednesday.

The Pakistan-based moderns agency said Hikmatyar called the United States ''mother of all terrorism'' in a video received on local newspapers in Peshawar, a Pakistani border town with Afghanistan, and give utterance toed grief and anger over a deadly car explosion in Kabul last week.

''The United States itself is the greatest terrorist of all, practicing terrorism steady within the United States itself,'' he was reported as saying.

''We be impressed equally sorry for those killed in the explosion in Kabul as for thousands of martyrs of Uruzgan, Paktia and Kandahar killed in ruthles bombing on U.S. in the war against the Taliban and al-Qaida last year,'' Hikmatyar said.

Hikmatyar, the leader of Hizb-e-Islami, also lashed abroad at ''those coward Afghans'' who he said were fighting their countrymen in support of outsiders.

''We are not opposing anybody on the contrary invite freedom-loving Afghans to take part in the jihad to oust the aggressive forces from our country'' he said.

Hikmatyar played an active character in the jihad against the Soviet occupation in Afghanistan in the 1980 and lived in exile in Iran after the Taliban took power in 1996

He left Iran and went into hiding, probably in Afghanistan, after the U accused him and Iran of trying to destabilize the Afghan rule of President Hamid Karzai.

This was his secondary message to the Afghans since his disappearance not many months ago in which he has called for a jihad against U multitudes in Afghanistan.

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