Posted on 10/14/2001 2:44:40 AM PDT by sarcasm
Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar pledged in an interview printed Sunday that his Islamic militia will teach the United States "a much more bitter lesson" than that taught to the Soviet Union in the 1980s. "It's true that we have not started our real battle against the United States because of their technological superiority," he told the Saudi daily Al-Watan. "But God willing we will not greet them with roses," Omar said. "They will be taught a much more bitter lesson than that taught to the Russians," Omar said in a telephone interview from Afghanistan, the Arabic-language daily said. Defeated Soviet forces pulled out of Afghanistan in 1989. He reiterated the Taliban's total refusal to hand over Osama bin Laden who is accused of masterminding the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington. "We have said if Washington has the evidence proving his (bin Laden's) involvement and is confident of that, why don't they give us this evidence and we are ready to try him in Afghanistan or by a committee of Islamic scholars from three countries. "By ignoring this proposal, the United States is humiliating Islamic sharia law, and accordingly the current war is not targeting Bin Laden but the destruction of the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan," Omar asserted. "I reiterate our readiness for the trial to take place in the presence of observers from the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and western countries," he said. Omar denied reports that members of his family have been killed in US air strikes which began on October 7, but admitted his house was hit. He said there had been huge loss of life and extensive damage. "Afghan cities and villages have suffered huge losses. A large number of women and children have been killed, and mosques, hospitals and residential areas have been hit," said Omar, describing the air raids as barbaric. But he asserted that the Afghan determination to fight has not been undermined. The Afghan people will reject any Western-backed government in Kabul, said Omar, vowing that death would be the fate of all collaborators. "The (Western-backed) northern alliance is a group of mercenaries who have decided a long time ago to make their country hostage to foreigners. All realise that the people of Afghanistan reject any attempt to force them to accept a leadership that works against them," he said. "We categorically refuse that Washington and Western countries impose on our people persons who had left us decades ago to fight our enemies," said Omar, in reference to Mohammed Zahir Shah, who was king from 1933 to 1973. "The fate of any collaborator with these (western) powers will be death," he stressed.
Don't worry, Omar; you won't greet us with roses. You'll greet us with dead bodies. Your dead bodies.
"'They will be taught a much more bitter lesson than that taught to the Russians,' Omar said in a telephone interview from Afghanistan, the Arabic-language daily said."
Omar, you ignorant slut. You drove out the Russians with our help.
This time, not only don't you have our help, but you've got us and the Russians allied against you.
Time to start setting your affairs in order. Seriously.
I guess this stuff is supposed to scare us. I treat it as a mental note to get more bug spray the next time I'm out. |
Has anyone told him we won't be helping him this time? Maybe he just assumed...
I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. "He will rule them with an iron scepter." He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. Revelation 19:11-15
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Another day, another jihad.