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"forget" about the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States, a Taliban spokesman said Wednesday, as they have been superseded by the U.S.-led war on Afghanistan.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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[Nate505]

After all, it's been a little over 2 months....plenty of time has passed to forget the murder of 5,000+ people....

[MistyCA]

Funny how people like Geraldo suddenly get religion when it suits them. There are certainly many things in life that one will never forget....Kennedy being shot, Reagan being shot, The Clinites being an embarrassment to this country and denigrating what it stands for, Geraldo being a Clinton apologist and mouthpiece for leftist causes, and September 11!

[bootless]

Like hell.

[razorbak]

Forget about September 11? Aren't these the same people who try to work the Crusades into every conversation?

BINGO!

[Steve_Seattle]

Maybe it's time to forget the Crusades, too.

[Mr. Mulliner]

Geraldo strikes me as a vacuous idiot who has an ability to deceive and entertain enough people to guarantee himself a place in the "news" business. It baffles me that people don't see through his false machismo and idiotic defense of the Clintons. And it baffles me further that a guy as savvy as Roger Ailes of Fox News considers him worthy to put on the air. So far, I'm told, Geraldo has put on the right kind of attitude to make him appear warlike, but sooner or later his goofiness is going to come out and expose him for the actor he is.

[lormand]

Forget THIS!

"Leave this location now and save yourselves"

"Flee and Live, or Stay and Die!"

Pictures from Psywar Terror Tactics

[NYC GOP Chick]

Great photos! You are too much! :-D

[UB355]

NOT

http://attacked911.tripod.com/

[Reagan is King]

Did he manage to keep a straight face when he said this?

[Helms]

Love the CLAWS !

[JoeSixPack1]

We're more nuts than you, and it should scare you s***less.

Those were the words of a young Marine to the Talibanned as we all remember reading early last month.
They are currently SCARED S***LESS and are discovering just how nuts we really are!

Semper Fi Tonk!

[MadEagle]

No problem-- let's tell these men to forget.

[Mr. Mulliner]

Oh yeah, I forgot about that!

[Billthedrill]

Somebody appears to have done some forgetting of his own - "Death to America," and maybe "the Americans are cowards, they'll never come here," for example.

[goldstategop]

Oh yes and we have unloosed the lighting of His terrible swift sword and are pressing out the vintage where the grapes of wrath were stored and soon the Taliban and Al Qaeda will learn just how we won't ever forget what happened on Sept. 11th. Let that be a lesson to the likes of them.

[meridia]

The opium poppies?

I've seriously been wondering how much high grade heroin that CULT, the Taliban uses, but I frankly have no idea if heroin users are IRRATIONAL and aggressively violent and sadistically authoritarian.

[Destructor]

"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."

Oh, so when it's OUR innocent people that are murdered it's okay, but when it's YOUR innocent people it's an act of terrorism! I think we have more evidence of the mindset/philosophy of the practitioners of Islam!! Peaceful religion my @ss!!!

[Poohbah]

Let me guess: they want us to "censure and move on."