SPIN BOLDAK: Taleban fighters in Afghanistan have threatened to launch suicide attacks against US and British troops and Afghan government officials in revenge for a big defeat this month. The threat came in leaflets distributed in southeastern Afghanistan that also urged people to back the Taleban and not cooperate with the US-backed government. "A suicide force of Taliban Mujahideen has been formed to take the revenge for Taleban martyrs," the Taleban said, according to a copy of the leaflet seen in the border town of Spin Boldak Monday. Mujahideen are Muslim holy warriors.
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"They will start non-stop suicide attacks on senior Afghan officials and American and British forces," it added. A former Afghan intelligence official, Mullah Abdul Samad, said he believed the leaflets were genuine and had been distributed by the Taleban. The leaflets referred to a battle on June 4 northeast of Spin Boldak, in which up to 40 Taleban fighters were killed by government forces. Meanwhile, terrorists, whose activities were previously concentrated along the border with Pakistan, were now infiltrating Afghanistan's capital to carry out attacks, a spokesman for he international peacekeeping force in Kabul said Monday. |