Posted on 10/23/2006 3:02:22 PM PDT by MadIvan
Britain and the rest of Europe are a target for Taleban militants who have been inspired by rebel fighters in Iraq and are now planning attacks abroad for the first time, a Taleban commander has said.
Mullah Mohammed Amin said that "ordinary people" would be killed in revenge for the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
Speaking to Sky News, the reclusive fighter vowed to avenge the death of every Taleban militant with the lives of hundreds of Westerners in a fight that, he said, they will never give up.
He said: "It's acceptable to kill ordinary people in Europe because these are the people who have voted in the government [George Bush and Tony Blair].
"They came to our home and attacked our women and children.
"The ordinary people of these countries are behind this - so we will not spare them. We will kill them and laugh over them like they are killing us and laughing at us."
Mullah Amin worked in the Defence Ministry in the Taleban government before the invasion. He claims to have been a fighter for 15 years and was in the mujahadeen. Today, he is wanted by both the Pakistani authorities and Nato for his part in the insurgency.
During the interview in a house in Pakistan close to the border with Afghanistan with the journalist Alex Crawford and cameraman Phil Hooper he keeps his face covered throughout.
He told the journalist that he is in charge of 85 fighters and plans and carries out attacks on British troops based in the south of the country.
He said: "Nato says they have about five million dollars worth of arms but we [the Taleban] have much more than that.
"We have all sorts of weapons. We have Kalashnikovs, AK-47s, we have rocket propelled grenades, we have missiles which can reach 7,000 metres. We have got many from China and from Russia and many from the mujahadeen.
He said that a missile that can hit a jet flying at 16,000 metres has been developed by the Taleban and is now 75 per cent complete.
He said that Taleban fighters were learning from the Iraq insurgency in their use of remote-controlled bombs, landmines and suicide bombers. He said: "They are our best tactic."
Regards, Ivan
Ping!
Let the nuclear slaughter begin.
Why didn't we wait until they had gone and then drop a big bomb on the place?
Love, Ivan
Time to clear out Wahziristan.
A reporter from Sky News in Pakistan.
Can't bomb Pakistan. Their cricket team might walk of the pitch in protest :-)
Then they would no longer fall foul of accusations of ball tampering ...
They seem to be able to rationalize anything they want.
Works both ways, remember.
Why didn't we wait until they had gone and then drop a big bomb on the place?
Given the actions of the so-called "press" lately, in particular CNN, I say drop the bombs while the reporter's still there, "killing two birds with one stone," so to speak!
Mark
Then they would no longer fall foul of accusations of ball tampering ...
Ball tampering eh? Bet that causes a bit of a sticky wicket!
"Taleban militants who have been inspired by rebel fighters in Iraq and are now planning attacks abroad for the first time,"
Let me see now... they were minding their own business until we invaded Iraq, and they had never attacked us before that?
Is the mood changing in your homeland? Are the Brits finally getting sick of the Muslims? I sure hope so and wish you all the best.
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Regards, Ivan
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| Posted by HAL9000 On News/Activism ^ 10/21/2006 1:13:48 PM CDT · 7 replies · 194+ views BBC News ^ | October 21, 2006 | David Loyn Nato troops in Afghanistan have been facing a growing number of suicide bomb attacks. It was hoped the troops would be able to make peace, win friends and provide security for reconstruction projects, but now it seems the regime they removed is beginning to return. "You destroyed our government and all because of just one guest in our country, Osama," said the man leading the war against the British. We sat late at night in what must have been the women's side of a house commandeered for just that night by a man who stays constantly on the move.... |
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And what is more, we both pay to keep both of them in business.
Regards, Ivan
Have they managed to come up with a third "Abu" yet? And, if so, which body parts is he missing?
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