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| Taliban mouthpiece sez UK had it coming |
| 2005-07-08 |
| A spokesman for Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents said on Friday the British people were paying the price for the evil of their rulers but the Taliban had nothing to do with Thursday's bomb attacks in London. "The people of Britain are facing trouble only because of the evil deeds and oppression of their rulers," spokesman Abdul Latif Hakimi said by telephone from an undisclosed location. Hakimi said the Taliban were neither sad nor happy about the four bombs on London's transport network that killed at least 37 people and wounded about 700. "Had these blasts been directed at Britain's military targets or inflicted losses on the British government then we would have been very happy," he said. Taliban fighters would attack British troops in Afghanistan but they were not involved in the London bombs, he said. "We will take revenge on Britain in Afghanistan but, nevertheless, the Taliban have nothing to do with these blasts," he said. Hakimi said Britain's rulers had been oppressing Muslims all over the world. "The people of Britain should find out the reasons behind these blasts because Britain has carried out oppression of Muslims all over the world and it has supported the United States in its illegitimate occupation of Afghanistan." |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #3 Do we have to come up with a Taliban Happiness Meter now? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-07-08 16:02 |
| #2 A spokesman for Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents ... Oh why do you go fly a kite? Oops. I forgot. That might get you killed! |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-07-08 15:38 |
| #1 Headline (1): Taliban Not Happy About Bombing! Hakimi said the Taliban were neither sad nor happy about the four bombs on London's transport network that killed at least 37 people and wounded about 700. Headline (2): Taliban says Bombers Goofed! "Had these blasts been directed at Britain's military targets or inflicted losses on the British government then we would have been very happy," he said. And I'm not even a journalist! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2005-07-08 07:56 |