Taliban say it's time to "forget" about Sept. 11 attacks

Cleveland.com ^ | November 21, 2001 | Haroon Rashid

[Mr. Mulliner]

Taliban say it's time to "forget" about Sept. 11 attacks

By HAROON RASHID
The Associated Press
11/21/01 9:11 AM

SPINBOLDAK, Afghanistan (AP) -- It is time to "forget" about the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States, a Taliban spokesman said Wednesday, as they have been superseded by the U.S.-led war on Afghanistan.

Syed Tayyad Agha, spokesman for Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, also told a news conference that the Islamic militia doesn't know where Osama bin Laden is.

"You should forget the Sept. 11 attacks because now there is a new fighting against Muslims and Islam, and the international and global terrorists like America and Britain, they are killing daily our innocent people," he told journalists in the Afghan border town of Spinboldak.

He said the Taliban have lost contact with bin Laden and that he is no longer under the militia's control.

"We have no idea where he is," Agha said. "There is no relation right now. There is no communication."

Agha said he knew of no members of bin Laden's al-Qaida network in areas under Taliban control and that contact with them had been lost "due to their communication problems."

Agha also said the Taliban would defend territory they still control after a week of retreats across Afghanistan, including their home base, Kandahar.

"They have decided to defend the presently controlled areas," he said. "We will try our best and we will defend our nation ... and we will not give any chance to anybody to disturb our Islamic rule in Kandahar and other provinces."

President Bush launched the military campaign against Afghanistan on Oct. 7 after the Taliban refused to hand over bin Laden for his alleged role in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that killed 4,000 people in the United States.

However, Agha told a group of foreign journalists in this southern border town that Sept. 11 was "America's problem" because it was carried out by people in the United States and that the Taliban was not responsible.

"This is the problem of Bush and (British Prime Minister) Tony Blair," he said. "This is not our problem."

Agha said the Taliban have no plans to abandon Kandahar and denied reports that local elders had asked them to leave, saying, "No tribal elders have contacted us."

"How could they ask for such a thing against the Taliban?" he added.

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[Iowa Granny]

We will NEVER forget,,, and my unborn grandchildren will never forget. I intend to change my will so that anyone in my family who 'forgets' is automatically disinherited.

Forget? Yea, right.

[SMASH IMPERIALIST LIBERALISM!!]

AFTERMATH

Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)

Have you forgotten yet?...
For the world's events have rumbled on since those gagged days,
Like traffic checked a while at the crossing of city ways:
And the haunted gap in your mind has filled with thoughts that flow
Like clouds in the lit heavens of life; and you're a man reprieved to go,
Taking your peaceful share of Time, with joy to spare.
But the past is just the same—and War's a bloody game...
Have you forgotten yet?...
Look down, and swear by the slain of the War that you'll never forget.

Do you remember the dark months you held the sector at Mametz—
The nights you watched and wired and dug and piled sandbags on parapets?
Do you remember the rats; and the stench
Of corpses rotting in front of the front-line trench—
And dawn coming, dirty-white, and chill with a hopeless rain?
Do you ever stop and ask, 'Is it all going to happen again?'

Do you remember that hour of din before the attack—
And the anger, the blind compassion that seized and shook you then
As you peered at the doomed and haggard faces of your men?
Do you remember the stretcher-cases lurching back
With dying eyes and lolling heads—those ashen-gray
Masks of the lads who once were keen and kind and gay?

Have you forgotten yet?...
Look up, and swear by the slain of the war that you'll never forget!

March 1919

[Phuong Hoang]

This reminds me of G. Rivera on The O'Relly Factor saying in effect that since he jumped ship to the Fox News Network, we should forget his giving aide and comfort to the enemy, Pecksniff Cretin, The Erstwhile President, during the Monica tribulations.

[CaptRon]

Yeah. Shecky Mohammed. Appearing nightly at that Afghan retirement complex.

[BibChr]

Ooh, ick, I guess that's next. Right now, we're at the, "That's history! Let's move on!" stage.

[Norb2569]

I intend to change my will so that anyone in my family who 'forgets' is automatically disinherited.

Great idea!! IF I had ANY money, I would do the same!!

[BibChr]

Yeah. I've heard the "forget the past" line from lots of unrepentant slobs.

[concerned about politics]

That list of terrorist attacks were mostly during the Clintoon Administration.
Good thing he did something to stop them, aye?
Like maybe opening the boarders for votes, "saying" he will find those who did it, getting serviced by Monica...All the really presidential-like stuff.

[KYwoman]

WE Will Never Forget 9-11!.......Never!

[river rat]

Thank you Osama
You have unmasked the Moslems of the World
We now see them as they are
We are no longer blind
We are no longer weak and afraid to act - Clinton is gone
We will not forget your treachery or murderous acts
We will not forget the Nations that celebrated or championed your cause
We will continue to be your worse nightmare
We will terrorize the terrorists
We will kill all Muslims waging war against us or our friends
We will rock your world - you guys f**ked up - BIG TIME
Now, it's our turn to kill.
Semper Fi

[steve-b]

Taliban say it's time to "forget" about Sept. 11 attacks

These guys have been smoking too much scorpion venom.

[EternalVigilance]

Never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, NEVER EVER........FORGET!!

[Keith]

Can you believe these Jackasses? Bin Laden run a tape running on and on about the 1921 Balfour Declaration and WE are supposed to forget about Sept. 11? AS Darth Sidious said, "Wipe them out....all of them."

[Mr. Mulliner]

Are you sure about that?

[Copperhead61]

Forget 9/11? Let's see did we forget the Alamo? NO!!! Did we forget the battleship Maine? NO!!! Did we forget Pearl Harbor? NO!!! We will never, ever forget 9/11! We will never, ever let the enemy forget it!

[weegee]

Why don't they just forget about "allah", "mohammed", the Crusades, the formation of the country of Israel, and Billy Jeff Clinton's speech that blamed the US?

[ctdonath2]

[Mr. Mulliner]

I've often heard it said that the Crusades were like "living history" to Muslims, that even events today are seen as a continuation of those military campaigns of the Middle Ages. How ironic that we should be given 2 months to think about what happened and then be expected to forget about it.

[MistyCA]

I think his already questionable brain power has been further traumatized by smartbomb repercussion. Amazing!