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| Posted By | Discussion Topic: Taliban angry at us for believing government; asks for understanding | ||||
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| IkeaBoy P.L.F. Portugese Liberation Front- Liberating Status' everywhere from the Tyranny of Portugal I will die a traitor's death | posted on 09-27-2001 @ 2:48 AM |    | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Sep. 00  | Wounded Taliban Left Isolated on Almost All Fronts KABUL (Reuters) - The leader of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban has turned to the American people, appealing for common sense in assessing whether his guest, the world's most wanted man Osama bin Laden, masterminded this month's suicide plane attacks. While tens of thousands of Afghans were fleeing toward the borders of their landlocked country, fearing a U.S. military attack in the hunt for bin Laden, those who support the purist Taliban were preparing to demonstrate their backing in the capital, Kabul. The ruling Taliban was left with but a single ally on Wednesday, its neighbor Pakistan, after Saudi Arabia -- the birthplace of Islam -- cut off all ties with the puritanical Muslim movement. Under siege from the rest of the world, and under attack from within, the Taliban has responded defiantly by insisting that anyone helping the United States punish them for protecting the Saudi-born dissident bin Laden faced the wrath of their holy warriors. The leader of the purist movement, the one-eyed Mullah Mohammad Omar, appealed to Americans late on Tuesday to use their own judgement in responding to last week's devastating attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon rather than blindly following their government's policy to attack his country. ``You accept everything your government says, whether it is true or false,'' Omar said in a messaged faxed to Reuters from his headquarters in the southern city of Kandahar. Mullah Omar faces a delicate balancing act since the rising military threat could stir questions in Taliban ranks, especially about the wisdom of continuing to protect bin Laden and his al Qaeda organization from U.S. demands for their destruction. Bin Laden brought money, manpower, expertise and access to the rest of the Muslim world; now he may bring the destruction of the Taliban. ``Don't you have your own thinking? Can Osama bin Laden carry out such an act in America?'' Omar asked in his appeal. ''So it will be better for you to use your sense and understanding.'' But the Taliban have announced plans for war, ordering a mobilization of more than 300,000 men and seizing food supplies from a United Nations warehouse intended for victims of a crippling drought that has exacerbated the country's woes. Saudi Arabia's links with the Taliban have long been cool, but the formal severing of ties means Pakistan is now the only country to recognize the Afghan administration -- although Islamabad withdrew its diplomats on security grounds on Monday. The move by Saudi Arabia has undermined the Taliban's attempts to pitch its crisis as a battle between the United States and the Islamic world. Pakistan said it would retain ties to provide a window for the Taliban to the outside world. ``I think we should maintain contact, at least there should be one country who ought to be able to have an access to them, to be able to engage them,'' President Pervez Musharraf said on Tuesday. FURTHER DEFIANCE And as they found themselves virtually friendless, the Taliban also faced a small but emboldened opposition that has stepped up attacks from their northern strongholds. The Taliban, fighting a civil war in the north for years, admitted losing Zari, 100 km (60 miles) south of Mazar-i-Sharif, to Northern Alliance forces advancing on the strategic city this week. Further resistance came from Ismail Khan, the opposition commander who was once governor of Herat, who said he was rallying up to 7,000 men to win back the western Afghan city from the Taliban. He said Taliban forces were badly equipped and crumbling under the threat of all-out war. The report could no be verified. REFUGEES ON THE MOVE The country itself may also be in the process of being deserted, with the U.N.'s refugee agency saying they were preparing to receive 1.5 million refugees in the event of U.S. strikes -- most in Pakistan, but tens of thousands also in Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Mullah Omar has warned Washington it could not win its ``war on terrorism'' by killing bin Laden and urged it to change its Middle East policies or face a ``vain and bloody war.'' But still missing, the Taliban has said, is the world's most wanted man. The Taliban say they are trying to hand their long-time ''guest'' the verdict of clerics who demanded last week that he leave of his own free will and in his own time. The chief Taliban spokesman has insisted the leadership would not hand over bin Laden -- even if they could find him -- unless the United States provides evidence to back up the claim that he masterminded the September 11 attacks on Washington and New York.  "I didn't realize how tragic it [the WTC attack] was until the celebrities told me"- Ron Bennington | ||||
| GonzoStyle | posted on 09-27-2001 @ 2:56 AM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70 | They have him, then they don't they say they don't condone it then they do. Does anyone care anymore? They had the balls to threaten and make demands, like Truman & FDR said to the Japanses, we will accept nothing less than unconditional surrender, when the time is right they will pay. "For all we have and are, for all our children's fate, stand up and take the war, the Hun is at the gate!" --- Rudyard Kipling She-Mail Me Here | ||||
| IkeaBoy P.L.F. Portugese Liberation Front- Liberating Status' everywhere from the Tyranny of Portugal I will die a traitor's death | posted on 09-27-2001 @ 3:02 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Sep. 00 | I just find it ironic them asking us to question what our government thinks yet if any of the Afghanis questioon what THEIR government thinks, they're killed. And here's something that shocks me...quote:. They're mad at us for just accusing Bin Laden and calling us evil for that yet they're stealing from the starving!!! "I didn't realize how tragic it [the WTC attack] was until the celebrities told me"- Ron Bennington This message was edited by IkeaBoy on 9-27-01 @ 3:06 AM | ||||
| GonzoStyle | posted on 09-27-2001 @ 3:09 AM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70 | Just scared roaches scrambling in a time of fear, is all they are. They have no position to argue they should be greatful we are willing to negotiate with them but they have to be stubborn. It's easy give up bin laden, give up all terrorists. If not you support them and you are a cancer to the world and a threat. It's called self-defense. "For all we have and are, for all our children's fate, stand up and take the war, the Hun is at the gate!" --- Rudyard Kipling She-Mail Me Here | ||||
| IkeaBoy P.L.F. Portugese Liberation Front- Liberating Status' everywhere from the Tyranny of Portugal I will die a traitor's death | posted on 09-27-2001 @ 3:11 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Sep. 00 | quote:True but because Bin Laden gives them all their money and guns so without Bin Laden they don't get the financial benefits of being highly corrupt. They can't give up Bin Laden without losing their money. But you know, [Norton lisp voice]war is wrong since murder is wrong[/Norton lisp voice]. "I didn't realize how tragic it [the WTC attack] was until the celebrities told me"- Ron Bennington | ||||
| Filzy Stand up straight Stomach in Shoulders back SOUND OFF!!! | posted on 09-27-2001 @ 4:17 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Sep. 00 | Well, if you ask me, they shouldn't get shit. They're hiding Bin Laden, Pakistan is the only country still talking to them, and they're too busy lining their pockets, making their people miserable, and supporting terrorism. Boo Hoo Taliban, be angry at yourselves you ignorant fucks. The Taliban is not a good example how Islam is followed.  There are 3 types of leaders and heroes. Some are born leaders, some are built from the ground up by experience, and some are the right people at the right time. Now accepting two recruits for the revived Armored Division. | ||||
| Mrs. Moosen You think Flock is the real mod? Ha! Think again. USA | posted on 09-27-2001 @ 5:35 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: May. 01 | I am patient, and know that we will get our piece of the MF'ers. For all of you pacifists out there who think we shouldn't seek justice for fear of killing the innocents, I give you this: quote:They are killing their own innocents. 'Nuff said
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