Posted on 11/21/2001 5:42:41 AM PST by Mr. Mulliner
Taliban say it's time to "forget" about Sept. 11 attacksBy 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"forget" about the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States, a Taliban spokesman said Wednesday, as they have been superseded by the U.S.-led war on Afghanistan.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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Multiple choice:
a) delusional
b) uninformed
c) liar
d) translation problem
e) suicidal
OBL claimed he did it, and the Taliban presumed to protect him from his just deserts. The question therefore is not,
"How could they ask for such a thing against the Taliban?"
but how the Taliban could possibly expect to be treated any other way.
They can dish it out, but they can't take it.
Clinton isn't president anymore, Talibrain.
You were too late.
There's a new guy in charge, and he knows the meaning of the word "is."
Which is made much easier by mainstream media's decision to stop showing footage of the planes hitting the WTC or not to call a spade a spade because "One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter." The Taliban must be sitting around the campfire saying "Is this [U.S.] a great country or what?"
They've come full circle, that's the same lie they told us in the beginning. Looks like they're running out of lame excuses.
Jealousy rears its ugly head once again. Me thinks they doth protest too much.
"These aren't the droids you're looking for."
"He's using an old Jedi mind trick!"
"These aren't the droids you're looking for."
"He's using an old Jedi mind trick!"
Bingo! I think the Taliban has been watching too much CNN, somehow thinking that it reflects the way America is thinking.
You stupid women hatin', boy humpin', goat lovin', stone age bastards didn't think about this when you embraced and supported bin Laden and his murderers.
Did ya???
Enjoy, and a happy Rama-dama-ding-dong to you!!
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