Afghanistan: Legendary mujahadeen leader releases video in new offensive (Jalaluddin Haqqani)

ADNKronos (Italy, excerpt) ^ | April 3, 2008

[HAL9000]

Excerpt -

Khost, 3 April (AKI) - Legendary Afghan mujahadeen leader and one of America's most wanted men, Jalaluddin Haqqani, has broken years of silence to launch the Taliban's spring offensive in a video message received by Adnkronos International (AKI).

In the 25-minute message, Haqqani called on the Afghan people to "stand up against the US-led forces in Afghanistan and drive them out."

Haqqani's hair is dyed red with henna and he speaks in his trademark low-pitched voice. His message is accompanied by a jihadist song in Pashtu.

In the video, Haqqani pledges his allegiance to fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar, laying to rest any doubt that he had split from the mainstream Taliban and set himself up as their leader.

Significantly, Haqqani praises a suicide bomber, Turkish- German Cuneyt Ciftci, who in March rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a compound used by NATO and Afghan forces in volatile Khost province, killing four people.

The reference to the Khost bombing authenticates the video, which also confirmed that the 70-year-old Jihadi veteran is alive and apparently well.

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[Spruce]

Every time these cavemen announce on of their ‘offensives’ they get their asses kicked.

[ontap]

The reference to the Khost bombing authenticates the video, which also confirmed that the 70-year-old Jihadi veteran is alive and apparently well.

Let's hope not for long!

[2banana]

Another Afghan spring offense that will never come to pass...

[avg_freeper]

"Haqqani's hair is dyed red with henna and he speaks in his trademark low-pitched voice."

Barry White has claimed prior art.

[NormsRevenge]

Spring Talibunny season rapidly approaches..

[LSUfan]

Note that this guy manages to appear ON CAMERA with a reference validating proof of life, yet Bin Laden has not done so in YEARS.

[Cecily]

Myths of our time:

1. The brutal Afghan winter that is going to stop NATO troops dead in their tracks and wear them down to defeat and retreat.

2. The Taliban spring offensive that is going to stop NATO troops dead in their tracks and wear them down to defeat and retreat.

You can have libbie/defeatist journalists’ favorite memes when you pry them from their cold, dead typing fingers.

[Antioch]

Ah.. out comes the henna-The bombs are sure to follow. Moose-limbs have this unusual habit of dying their beards red to try to follow the Sunnah (what the Muhammad did). The Prophet said not to pull out the gray hairs but to color them with henna instead. Because its important to be vain and an idolator I guess...

[reagan_fanatic]

The one in the lower-middle looks like the most intelligent one out of the bunch.

[SolidWood]

LOL!!!

[Cecily]

What these guys really need are some leprechaun outfits.