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Taleban leader in rallying call
news.bbc.co.uk ^ | Friday, 12 November, 2004, 17:20 GMT | SA

Posted on 11/12/2004 9:32:33 AM PST by Ginifer

Reclusive Taleban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar has sent a new message to supporters, vowing to struggle for the Afghanistan's "independence".

Mullah Omar sent a two-page message to the Afghan Islamic Press agency to mark the Muslim Eid ul Fitr festival.

He said the Taleban had "far greater unity, brotherhood and steadfastness than before".

Mullah Omar led the Taleban regime that ruled Afghanistan until it was overthrown by US-led forces in 2001.

His message comes on the third anniversary of the Taleban's flight from Kabul in as US-led forces marched on the city.

Mullah Omar said the jihad, or holy war, being fought by the Taleban was not aimed at "getting to power".

"If [the Taleban] wanted to secure power and material benefits, they could have made a deal with the Americans," he said.

Eluding capture

The religious leader condemned the United States for "atheist" policies that led Afghans "astray by different methods and different plans such as the loya jirga (grand tribal council), the constitution and the election process".

I will not let you and your hopes down. I will not leave a shameful history as a legacy for our future generations Mullah Omar

Profile: Mullah Mohammed Omar

He called this "fake democracy".

The Taleban vowed to disrupt the recent presidential elections in Afghanistan.

During campaigning they carried out a number of attacks on election workers.

However, their threat to disrupt polling day never materialised.

In Mullah Omar's latest message he again rounded on President Hamid Karzai:

"The puppet administration and agents are installed to destroy the courage and belief of the Afghans, their fate and their morally clean society."

Mullah Omar has managed to elude capture despite the hunt by thousands of US-led forces.

There have been sporadic reports of sightings, including one in Quetta, south-west Pakistan, in November last year, but nothing substantiated.

He is believed to be hiding in the mountainous region along the Afghan-Pakistan border, as is al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.

Bin Laden himself delivered an anti-US message recently, shortly before the US presidential election.

Mullah Omar said that the US "should know that we are determined to win the independence of our country".

He added: "I will not let you and your hopes down. I will not leave a shameful history as a legacy for our future generations."

Mullah Omar has periodically issued taped messages urging his followers to maintain their attacks on Western forces.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: mullahomar; napalminthemorning; religionofpeace; southasia; taliban; wot
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1 posted on 11/12/2004 9:32:33 AM PST by Ginifer
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To: Ginifer

A new message from Mullah Omar? I'll be sure to keep an eye out for it...


2 posted on 11/12/2004 9:33:45 AM PST by Chad Fairbanks (Facsists Unhappy Concerning Kerry's Election Defeat.)
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To: Ginifer; KylaStarr; Cindy; StillProud2BeFree; nw_arizona_granny; Revel; Velveeta

ping


3 posted on 11/12/2004 9:33:52 AM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Ginifer

The one-eyed bandit.


4 posted on 11/12/2004 9:34:27 AM PST by Preachin' (Where is Murrymom?)
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To: Ginifer

Time for Mullah to be Yassered.


5 posted on 11/12/2004 9:35:05 AM PST by Ed_in_NJ (Who killed Suzanne Coleman?)
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To: Ginifer
He said the Taleban had "far greater unity, brotherhood and steadfastness than before".

Forsooth, it's increasing by the day. Imagine how complete the unity, when only one Taliban remains.

6 posted on 11/12/2004 9:36:26 AM PST by Physicist
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To: Chad Fairbanks

I think he's blind in one eye, and can't see out the other.


7 posted on 11/12/2004 9:37:00 AM PST by Preachin' (Where is Murrymom?)
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To: Calpernia

Bump!


8 posted on 11/12/2004 9:38:08 AM PST by Velveeta
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To: Ed_in_NJ

"Time for Mullah to be Yassered."

LOL!


9 posted on 11/12/2004 9:38:25 AM PST by Trippin
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To: Chad Fairbanks

Groan. ;-]


10 posted on 11/12/2004 9:38:26 AM PST by Aeronaut (This is no ordinary time. And George W. Bush is no ordinary leader." --George Pataki)
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To: Ginifer

And after finishing his statement Mullah Omar left his cave to empty the bucket into which he expends his personal waste.


11 posted on 11/12/2004 9:39:34 AM PST by StJacques
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To: Ginifer
Reclusive Taleban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar has sent a new message to supporters, vowing to struggle for the Afghanistan's "independence".

WE, therefore, the Representatives of the Taliban, appealing to Allah for the Rectitude of our Intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of Afghanistan, solemnly Publish and Declare, That Afghanistan is, and of Right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT of any degree of modernity greater than the discovery of fire.

12 posted on 11/12/2004 9:41:29 AM PST by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

I'll be sure to keep an eye out for it...


ROTFLMAO!


13 posted on 11/12/2004 9:42:36 AM PST by The Hollywood Conservative (I can't even make a tagline because I'm a GIANT IDIOT!!!)
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To: Chad Fairbanks
I'll be sure to keep an eye out for it...

One-eyed Jacks are wild.

14 posted on 11/12/2004 9:51:19 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Calpernia

Talk and more talk, but nothing there to take to Google.

LOL


15 posted on 11/12/2004 10:15:53 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny (On this day your Prayers are needed!!!!!!!)
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To: Ginifer

Come out come out wherever you are...


16 posted on 11/12/2004 10:23:04 AM PST by BushisTheMan
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To: Ginifer

I almost feel sorry for the one-eyed bandit. He's now reduced to sending out worthless press releases, rather like the DNC.


17 posted on 11/12/2004 10:39:14 AM PST by Larry381 (Our long national nightmare is over-Kerry lost.)
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To: Ginifer
In Mullah Omar's latest message he again rounded on President Hamid Karzai:

"The puppet administration and agents are installed to destroy the courage and belief of the Afghans, their fate and their morally clean society."

Oh you mean THIS morally clean society.


18 posted on 11/12/2004 11:02:54 AM PST by agrace (Thank you veterans!)
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To: Ginifer
He said the Taleban had "far greater unity, brotherhood and steadfastness than before".

Yeah, united in hell.

19 posted on 11/12/2004 11:10:01 AM PST by randog (What the....?!)
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