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| Taliban video calls for jihad against US | |
| 2003-12-17 | |
| Now available at Kabul BlockBuster: The Taliban have released their first video containing footage of attacks on US troops and Afghan militia in southern Afghanistan and appeals to Afghans "to come out and wage a jihad against the United States". "Jihadi’s, come out and play!" The 22-minute video copied on compact discs, the first from the Taliban following a US-led invasion of Afghanistan, contains poems lamenting the fall of their regime and commentator narrating the plight of Muslims all over the world at the hands of "Hindus, Christians and Jews" in Kashmir, Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechenya and Palestine. The video containing propaganda stuff is the latest by group opposed to the US presence in Afghanistan. Hizb-i-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar released his own video statement narrating the instances when he narrowly escaped the hunt by US troops and renewing his pledge to continue fighting until foreign forces were evicted from Afghanistan. So this is a different video than Hek’s. The Taliban had released a similar video of their operations in southwestern Afghanistan that included the footage showing the kidnapping of Turkish engineer. It is also the first video from Taliban, who were generally averse to filming of living beings which they thought was against the edicts of Islam. The Taliban regime under their supreme leader Mullah Muhammad Omar had closed down television and banned music. Guess they needed to drum up support. An Afghan familiar with the situation in Paktia province remarked how Taliban insurgents ruled the night in Afghanistan’s volatile southern province bordering Pakistan. "The day belongs to Americans and their Afghan allies. People drive in their vehicles playing music. Music cassettes are replaced by religious audios as the night falls when the Taliban come out and set up check points." The reasonably well edited video titled Pasoon (Uprising) in Pushto, apart from showing clips and footage borrowed from western and Arab news channels of the US and Israeli "excesses" in Iraq and Palestine, also contains some shots of Taliban fighters in action against US and allied Afghan forces in Afghanistan’s Paktia province. Bet they’re staged, a little editing can do wonders. Central figure in the video, however, is a 26-year-old young man, Abdul Qadir, a Wazir tribesman from Wana in South Waziristan tribal region, who is shown carrying out the attacks and planting a landmine that blows up a pickup truck purportedly killing six Afghan militiamen. Note the "purportedly", the reporter doesn’t buy it either. Mr Qadir, says the commentator, was killed while battling American soldiers in Birmal district in Paktia province on Aug 28. "Abdul Qadir was a hero and a brave mujahid." Now he’s just a dead mujahid. It also shows father and brothers of Abdul Qadir pledging to offer more sacrifices to evict "infidels" from Afghanistan. "I have seven sons. One has embraced martyrdom in the way of Allah. It is now the turn of my second son. I will give away my remaining sons one by one in the way of jihad," vows Abdul Qadir’s father. Why don’t you go yourself and save your sons? Qadir’s younger brother, clutching a Kalashnikov, is shown on the video, pledging to follow in the footsteps of his deceased brother. The video opens and closes with an elegy lamenting the fall of Taliban.
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| Posted by:Steve |
| #11 I always liked"I brought you into this world and I'll take you out.Won't bother me a bit cause I'll ake another look's just like you". #5"Do you know where your children are". |
| Posted by: raptor 2003-12-18 8:26:56 AM |
| #10 Except for "Push! Push! [Puffa puffa puffa!] Push!" |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-12-17 10:10:58 PM |
| #9 Nothing beats his skit, "Noah". |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-12-17 9:33:38 PM |
#8 snellenr: Better one -- "Captain Custer, this is Captain Sittin' Bull. ... All right, Captain Sittin' Bull says you and your boys gotta wait down at the bottom of that hill while him and all the Indians in the World ride right down on you."Warning: Don't get me started on vintage Cosby. |
| Posted by: Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-17 9:22:25 PM |
| #7 These guys don't seriously think tehy rule the night. I can't imagine that they have night vision readily available. It's can't be that hard to ambush morons that establish fixed positions with a roadblock. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-12-17 2:56:54 PM |
| #6 RC -- reminds me of Bill Cosby's "Toss of The Coin": After the British lose the coin toss: "The settlers say that during the war, they will wear any color clothes that they want to, shoot from behind the rocks & trees & everywhere. Says your team must wear red, and march in a straight line." |
| Posted by: snellenr 2003-12-17 2:31:48 PM |
| #5 Send a message to these Taliban jihadists - every time Taliban members are located, send over Spooky to dispatch them from the face of this Earth in a hail of bullets. Snap photos of whatever's left, put them on a million leaflets, and drop them all across the Afghan-Pakistan border with the question printed on them in the local language: Do YOU want to be next? |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-12-17 12:27:43 PM |
| #4 If we're not already, we should be making some of these and releasing them: "God commands every jihadi to wear a bright yellow vest, so as to make their devotion to Him more apparent!" |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-12-17 12:15:51 PM |
| #3 No Binnie? I wonder what Abdul Qadir's mother feels about it.... Of course the father won't go himself.. he has a --er-- bad back (yeah! thats it!). |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2003-12-17 11:58:23 AM |
| #2 Gee, Abdul Qadir's dad sure has the worst of the job. Getting all them wimmen pregnant to produce more martyrs for Allah. Such a brave soul. Has he been screened for prostate cancer yet? |
| Posted by: Dar 2003-12-17 11:46:22 AM |
| #1 Sounds like a greatest hits release. Artists like to issue them when they don't plan to have any new material soon. |
| Posted by: BH 2003-12-17 11:04:25 AM |