Taliban military chief Mullah Dadullah told Reuters that Afghanistan had become a "hub of disturbance, killings, looting and drugs" since the Taliban's overthrow in late 2001.
Dadullah, speaking by satellite phone from an undisclosed location, denounced presidential and legislative elections in October 2004, and September 18 this year as U.S.-staged "dramas."
He said the latest polls for a national assembly and provincial councils had brought in "old murderers and warlords."
"Those who were happy over the fall of the Taliban have now realized the American occupation of their country was just for the sake of American interests," he said.
"It's proven the Americans occupied our country by raising the bogey of terrorism and have no sympathy with Afghans."
Dadullah called Afghanistan a "drug-manufacturing factory" with government ministers involved in the narcotics trade.
"We will continue our jihad until we drive out foreign troops from our country," he said.
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MANILA - The Philippines on Sunday welcomed a 10-million-dollar US bounty on the head of a senior Jemaah Islamiyah militant believed to be hiding in the jungles of southern Mindanao island.
Presidential spokesman Ignacio Bunye said Manila hoped the reward offer would help capture Indonesian Dulmatin, who is believed to be receiving shelter from Khdadday Janjalani, leader of the local Muslim militant group Abu Sayyaf.
“The bounty offered by the US government will definitely drive more civilians and more communities to the manhunt,” Bunye said in a statement.
“These efforts underscore our strong alliance with the US in the fight against terror as well as our partnership with our neighbours to get the Bali bombers and their cohorts.”
Dulmatin is believed to have been one of the masterminds of the 2002 bombings that killed 202 people on the Indonesian island of Bali. The JI is also being blamed for last week’s Bali bomb attacks that left at least 20 dead.
Washington has also offered a one million dollar reward for Umar Patek, another Indonesian JI militant.
The US reward announced Thursday for information that could help capture or kill Dulmatin is second only to the 25 million dollars offered for Osama bin Laden and Iraq insurgency leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
The Abu Sayyaf is a small group of Islamic militants, featured on the US State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations. It is wanted for a spate of kidnappings, murders and bomb attacks, including a passenger ferry blast that killed more than 100 people on Manila Bay last year.
Security analysts say the JI has been increasingly building links with the Abu Sayyaf and taking advantage of the Philippines’ porous southern borders to plot attacks in the region.