Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has accused the United States of trying to impose a puppet administration in Afghanistan and vowed to regain control of the country, a Pakistan-based Afghan news agency reported on Friday.| "Yar! The puppets dance to my strings!" |
A message from [him] was sent to newspaper offices in Peshawar, the Afghan Islamic Press said. | 'Cuz he can't get out his message any other way. Here he is trying to seem relevant. Sorry Omar, your time has passed. Afghanistan is free. |
The message, to mark the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr, came the day before the third anniversary of the day when U.S.-backed Afghan forces captured Kabul from the Taliban on November 13, 2001. Omar said the Taliban remained committed to their Caliphate Islamic ideals. "There is much more brotherhood, obedience and steadfastness in the Taliban's Islamic movement than before," he said. "America and its puppets should know that we are determined to enslave and impoverish free and regain the sovereignty of our country."  Omar said Eid was coming at a time when Afghanistan and Islamic values "remain plunged into horror and Crusader vengeance" and Taliban and mujahideen continued to be imprisoned by the United States in Cuba and Afghanistan. "America...is trying to impose its puppet administration," the message said. "Moral decadence, desecration of Islamic values and crime are increasing in Afghanistan. Every ploy is being used to mislead women." Omar said the Taliban "could have connived with America to retain power and this worldly rule by giving up Afghan honor. But they didn't do it," he said. "You should rest assured that I and my Mujahid colleagues will never accept anything except shari'a, sweet, sweet shari'a Islamic injunctions." The past year has seen increased violence by the Taliban and their militant allies, but they failed in their vow to disrupt presidential elections last month won by U.S.-backed incumbent Hamid Karzai. | Thanks for playing, Mullah Omar. Your time is up. |
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