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Afghanistan
Taliban dismisses parliament as US forgery
2005-12-21
A statement attributed to the leader of the ousted Taliban regime on Tuesday dismissed Afghanistan’s first parliament in 30 years as a US forgery and vowed the American ‘invaders’ would be forced out. The parliament was inaugurated in a ceremony attended by US Vice President Dick Cheney.

“Americans have a policy whenever they decide to carry out a military invasion of a country - they fake documents for their invasion,” said the statement read to AFP over the telephone by a purported Taliban spokesman. In Afghanistan’s case this included the ‘so-called government’ that was set up immediately after the Taliban regime was removed, according to the statement attributed to fugitive leader Mullah Mohammad Omar. “Later they make the symbolic so-called elections - they were forcing people to vote and register to vote, even to the point if someone did not register, they would consider him as an enemy,” it said.
Posted by:Fred

#4  Too bad his Imperial Majesty Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, is dead. He'd be the perfect guy to negotiate with Omar.
Posted by: Biff Wellington   2005-12-21 10:38  

#3  I think the "so-called" Taliban have a few "so-called" credibility problems. Like "so-called" Allah hating their guts, the "so-called" Afghan people wanting them dead, and their "so-called" friends being rarer than Moon rocks on Mars.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2005-12-21 09:55  

#2  People in Afghanistan have to be looking at each other right now going, "Huh?"
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2005-12-21 09:33  

#1  Wonder if Mullah O's renewed his subscription to "Cave Life"?
Posted by: tu3031   2005-12-21 09:18  

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