Posted on 03/17/2006 12:15:14 PM PST by voletti
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar vowed a ferocious offensive against U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, saying on Thursday they would soon face unimaginable violence.
An insurgency that has killed more than 1,500 people since the start of last year has intensified in recent months with a wave of suicide bombings, including at least 12 this year.
Ten U.S. troops have been killed in combat this year and U.S. commanders have said they expect violence to increase in coming months as the weather warms, snow on mountain passes melts, and Afghanistan's traditional fighting season begins.
"With the arrival of the warm weather, we will make the ground so hot for the invaders it will be unimaginable for them," Omar said in his message, read by Taliban spokesman Mohammad Hanif over the telephone from an undisclosed location.
The fugitive Taliban leader, who carries a $10 million reward, also said a stream of young Afghans were volunteering for suicide missions, the Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press news agency said.
Last week, Afghan President Hamid Karzai called for more Pakistani cooperation in fighting militants after Islamabad derided Kabul's accusations that Mullah Omar was in Pakistan.
On Wednesday, Afghanistan's Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah said he was sure the Taliban leader was not in Afghanistan, although Taliban spokesmen insist Omar is leading the insurgency from his homeland.
"Mullah Omar is not in Afghanistan, that's as much as I can say with a degree of certainty," Abdullah told Reuters during a visit to the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur.
Afghan officials complain that the Taliban use Pakistan's tribal regions as a springboard for attacks, and despite Islamabad's denials, many suspect Pakistan harbors long term ambitions to have a pro-Pakistan government in Kabul.
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Earlier this week some homegrown Mullah, Achmed Ben Kamelpoker something or another was talking smack, remember?
That was right before the Iraqi 1st and our Screamin' Eagles ran his `brothers' in Samarra right out of their sandals.
These guys are comical.
In short order we beat the snot out of these babossos in Afganistan and have been regularly killing them by the bus load since. If they want to continue to die by the bus load I'm sure our courageous heros will oblige the turds.
Hey One-eyed Cyclops Taliban leader:
I can imagine every cell in your body exploding into millions of pieces in millionths of a second after which the gassy detritus that was once you, gets vacuumed into a super massive black hole. As your atoms are spread over the center of the singularity like apple butter on toast, you will for all intents and purposes have ceased to exist for eternity. The atoms that were once you will not longer ever be part of anything else again until the heat death of the universe at which everything ends.
Are you saying it's going to be worse than that?
By killing them all and let God sort them out
What freakin' slef delusional planet is that dude living on?
"Guns don't kill people. I kill people".
"Do we really need 'smart bombs' to drop on these dumb bastards?"
I want one of each...
You shoot their asses as they cross the border! Better yet, you kill them and their families while they roast a goat outside of the entrance to their cave!!!
LLS
Amen, brother.
Find the thermal hot spots and concentrate on those. Best done before it gets too warm outside.
He plans to assault some goats..
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