Top Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah says faith and popular support will see his men fight off an offensive in southern Afghanistan by NATO and Afghan troops. Dadullah, who is reported to be the TalibanÂ’s military operations chief for southern Afghanistan, acknowledged the superior might of ISAF in a telephone interview on Saturday but said he was undaunted."Daunted? Me? Pshaw!"
“No one in the world has better weapons than NATO. They have got better weapons, but we will defeat them with the power of faith and belief,” Dadullah told an AFP reporter. “The entire nation is with us: the people give us food, fruit and money. The people are fed up with infidel, invading troops and their puppets,” he said.
"If they're not, we cut their heads off!"
He claimed to be in Helmand province. “We have enough men to fight this battle,” he said. “Some foreign mujahedin are also fighting alongside our mujahedin. Dadullah said Taliban fighters were being backed by Al Qaeda-linked foreign jihadists, including from Chechnya and the Palestinian territories. “We have relations with Iraqi mujahedin — we send fighters to them, they send to us,” he added.