AFGHANISTAN - Sept. 30 - Taliban Leader Talks Of War.In a rare address on the Taliban-run Radio Shariat Radio Shariat (meaning Islamic law) was the ruling Taliban's mouthpiece, broadcasts religious programs and official decrees and announcements. The broadcasts were carried over twenty transmitting towers. It was the foreign media's main source of information from the Taliban. , Mullah Mohammed Omar Noun 1. Mullah Mohammed Omar - reclusive Afghanistani politician and leader of the Taliban who imposed a strict interpretation of shariah law on Afghanistan (born in 1960) Mullah Omar , says: "The government may collapse", but the result would be the same as the jihad jihad: see Islam. jihad In Islam, the central doctrine that calls on believers to combat the enemies of their religion. According to the Qur'an and the Hadith, jihad is a duty that may be fulfilled in four ways: by the heart, the tongue, the hand, against the Soviet Union. "New fronts will be established, just like against the communists. You may capture the airports and the capital and the cities, but people will go to the mountains. God willing, I believe that neither the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. nor their allies will be able to do anything. They will only find the same destiny as the Communists". He denies any role by Afghanistan in the Sept. 11 attacks and says US policies, which he does not specify, are to blame. He adds: "Americans don't have the courage to come here". Another warning that armed conflict seems inevitable comes from the foreign minister for the Northern Alliance Abdullah, who says his group is in "regular daily contact" with the US. He predicts that an attack on Afghanistan will come in "matter of days". |
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