 The Taliban have regained control of all southwestern provinces of Afghanistan, Al Jazeera television quoted the group commander, Mullah Dadullah, as saying.
| I suppose they could prove the claim by actually administering the provinces. |
In his first interview with Al Jazeera since reports of his arrest spread across the world last week, the Taliban leader threatened to attack North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) troops deployed in the south of the country, the channel reported. Dadullah accused the United States of fighting Islam and Muslims.
| He's making the assumption that we're fighting all of Islam and all Muslims. If that was the case the matter would be a lot simpler. Instead, we're trying to excise the religion's oozing putrescences like Mullah Dadullah, while leaving the harmless and the merely unpleasant alone. The Northern Alliance, which I'm of the opinion we should have just gone ahead and recognized as the legitimate Afghan government, was quite as Muslim as the Taliban it was fighting. It just wasn't as well armed. |
He condemned the US attack on civilians in southern Afghanistan and said that Washington viewed all Afghans as its enemies and therefore killed civilians.
| Only those with Taliban in their living rooms. |
He held Afghan President Hamid Karzai responsible for the killings of civilians, saying that Karzai wanted foreign troops to stay in the country. He said that the Taliban had adopted a new war strategy. He said that his appearance on the television would disappoint the US and foreign and Afghan troops who had aired news of his arrest.
| I'm quite disappointed. On the other hand, we only have to kill Mullah Dadullah once and he won't be on the teevee again, except maybe on the History Channel. |
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