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Taliban Vow Attacks After Mullah Omar Meeting
Taliban commanders secretly met elusive leader Mullah Mohammad Omar last week and vowed to step up attacks on Afghan government and U.S.-led allied troops. Taliban guerrilla commander Mullah Sabir, alias Mullah Momin, told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location that Omar appeared "delighted" by a recent spate of Taliban attacks. At the meeting on September 17, held somewhere in "Yar, we be jihadis!" Mullah Momin said he had started spreading Omarâs message to other Taliban commanders who were not present at the meeting, adding that the leaders had agreed to "accelerate" attacks. "Weâll get right on it, as soon as I stop bleeding." On Wednesday, the U.S.-led military force in Afghanistan said 10 rockets had landed near two of its bases in the southeast of the country the previous night, but caused no casualties. Two of the rockets landed near a base at Asadabad and eight others near a base at Shkin, military spokesman Major Richard Sater told a news briefing. He said U.S.-led forces fired mortars at the suspected launch site in Asadabad last night, but gave no other details. "I can say no more!" Such attacks, which have been an almost daily occurrence in Afghanistan in the past year but generally ineffective, have been blamed in past on Taliban guerrillas. Or guys they paid to do it for them. In another incident on Tuesday, Afghan forces captured four Taliban guerrillas in the Suri area of Zabul province, Commander Haji Mohammad told Reuters, adding that a cache of arms had been found during the raid.
Posted by: Steve 2003-09-24 |
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