A group calling itself suicide attackers for Islam has vowed there will be no end to violence plaguing Afghanistan until foreign forces leave the war-shattered nation. "We will continue our struggle against the aggressive foreign troops until we compel them to quit from every corner of the country," the group said in a message sent to the private Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) over the weekend. The message was signed by the Fedayeen Islam, which means suicide attackers for Islam, and was written in Pashtu. AIP, a Pakistan-based news agency, said the statement was issued by the group’s eastern Afghanistan branch.
| "Eastern Afghanistan" is also known as western Pakistan... |
Pamphlets previously circulated around southern Pakistani-Afghan border areas, where remnants of Afghanistan’s ousted Taliban regime are believed to be regrouping and launching attacks, have purportedly been signed by Taliban commanders calling themselves Fedayeen Islam.
| Same guys, different color turban... |
A Taliban-signed pamphlet spread around the twin border towns of Spin Boldak and Chaman in June, in the wake of a suicide attack that killed four German peacekeepers, declared that Taliban fighters had formed suicide squads to kill Afghan officials. |