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| Afghanistan |
| Talibs mobilizing 300,000 |
| 2001-09-24 |
Taliban Defense Minister Mullah Obaidullah said Monday that Afghanistan was mobilizing an additional 300,000 men to help fight off any U.S. attack to punish Kabul for sheltering Osama bin Laden. Hundreds of thousands more were signing up to help fight a "jihad", or holy war, against any U.S. invasion, Obaidullah said in a statement sent to Reuters in Kabul. At a news conference in Islamabad, the Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, Mullah Abdul Salaam Zaeef, also said Kabul was mobilizing for war in view of the U.S. threat to punish Afghanistan for sheltering Osama bin Laden. He gave no details. "All detachments of the national defense ministry are ready for the defense of their religion and country with full vigor and order," Obaidullah said in his statement. "In view of the current conditions, 300,000 well-experienced and equipped men have been stationed in the center (of the country), at borders and other significant areas in addition to its former detachments," he added. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |