We covered this subject in June pretty well, but I want to pull a passage from this latest transcript and post it here. -Cindy
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http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/07/transcript_weltwoche_interview.php
“Transcript: Weltwoche Interview with Taliban Commander Mansoor Dadullah”
By Evan Kohlmann
SNIPPET: “My colleague Urs Gehriger from Die Weltwoche in Switzerland has forwarded me the English transcript of a new video interview of the Taliban’s top military commander Mansoor Dadullah obtained exclusively by Weltwoche with the help of journalist Sami Yousafzai. The interview with Mansoor—the brother of and replacement for the late Mullah Dadullah—took place on June 7, 2007 in the region along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan and was conducted by a Pakistani journalist who was supplied with questions by Weltwoche. Transcript as follows:”
TRANSCRIPT SNIPPET - QUOTE:
Q. When you were in power you initiated a reign of terror. Why should the population be behind you?
A. That isn’t true. Our government did not use terror, we sacrificed ourselves for Islam.