A Taliban spokesman said Thursday all 18 candidates in Afghanistan's presidential elections were "targets", and claimed responsibility after a rocket landed near a school to be visited by President Hamid Karzai.
| "Dat's right. Yer gonna go what we tells yez to do or yer gonna do nuttin' at all!" |
"All presidential candidates are our top targets now because they are running for the polls of a US-made election - an election which will create a government in the interest of the Americans," Taliban spokesman Abdul Latif Hakimi told AFP.
| "We'll tell yez what yez want, dammit!" |
Meanwhile, Afghan President Hamid Karzai's main rivals in an Oct. 9 presidential election called on Thursday for the vote to be delayed at least a month, saying security worries meant they were unable to campaign properly.
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