OTTAWA -- An elusive, one-legged Taliban commander has threatened to "wreak vengeance" upon Canadian troops in Afghanistan if they don't withdraw, according to a new translation of a recent interview with the commander by an Arab satellite network. | Can you narrow it down? Seems like every third Talibanner is missing a limb |
"America now wants to avoid the heat of battle, so it pushes other countries towards it," Mullah Dadullah is reported to have said in a translation released Thursday by the Washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute.
| oh, it's Mullah Dad again. |
"Our advice to Canada and Britain is to refrain from defending the American propaganda and from standing by this historic American crime ... Our advice to these countries is to avoid the heat of battle, because we will wreak vengeance upon them, one by one, like we are doing with the Americans."
| We've noticed your boys have been flinging themselves one by one in front of our bullets lately. |
It is not the first time that Canada has been threatened directly by al-Qaida or the Taliban. Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden first pointed the finger directly at Canada in 2002 as a target of his terrorist group for its support of the U.S.-led war on terrorism. A Taliban spokesman has also claimed responsibility for the suicide bomb attack that killed Canadian diplomat Glyn Berry in Kandahar in January.