A Taliban commander warned Western nations in an interview broadcast on US television on Friday that they could expect more attacks. Mansour Dadullah, in the interview shown on ABC News, said the July 2005 suicide attacks on London’s transport system, in which 52 people had died, were “not enough” and that bigger attacks were coming. “You will, God willing, be witness to more attacks,” Dadullah told a Pakistani journalist in an interview ABC said was conducted four days earlier.The commander of the Islamic group, which was ousted from power in Afghanistan by US troops after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, talks about his ability to operate inside neighbouring Pakistan. “We have many friends,” he said. “It is very easy for us to go in and out of the tribal areas (at the Pak-Afghan border). It is no problem.”
Last month, ABC broadcast a video showing Dadullah presiding over a “graduation ceremony” of fighters trained by Al Qaeda and the Taliban somewhere in the Afghanistan-Pakistan tribal border region on June 9. In that video, Dadullah had threatened members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation military alliance deployed in Afghanistan. “These Americans, Canadians, British and Germans come here to Afghanistan from faraway places,” Dadullah said on the video. “Why shouldn’t we go after them?”