[Tolo News] Pak Taliban has warned to step up their attacks against US troops in Afghanistan seeking to avenge deaths in drone attacks targeting bad turban locations in Pakistain's tribal belts.But Afghan Defence Ministry described the comments as enemy propaganda.
Naah, Taliban doesn't do that...
A front man for a Taliban leader, Mullah Nazir who is supported by the Pak government, said his group would send more fighters to Afghanistan to target US troops.
Pakistain's military government considers Nazir and his group "good Taliban", because they are not after ruining the Pak state.
...if that's possible.
Nazir's group provides safe haven to senior al-Qaeda leaders and carry out attacks in Afghanistan.
"Because the United States is launching these strikes, we will send more fighters to Afghanistan and step up our operations against US forces," Maulawi Yonus, a senior Taliban capo and front man for Mullah Nazir, told Rooters.
I, of course, will stay back here and...monitor the situation.
He'll eat a goat in their honor...
| So much easier for the drones to find, that single leader eating a goat all by his lonesome, while his boys are off doing what they fondly believe to be terribly fearsome fighting. |
aircraft) down so we will fight the United States in Afghanistan."
Our weapons are useless against them!
Qari Yosuf, a close one to Nazir, said the Taliban have a lot of fighters to send to Afghanistan and the drone attacks will help them recruit more.
"We have lots of mujahideen (holy warriors)," Yosuf told Rooters. "It is not a problem. If drone strikes continue, we believe many rustics will join us because they (drone strikes) are killing ordinary people.
| Not quite right. We've seen the statistics, and most of those killed by the drones are precisely the people they were aimed at. Ordinary people only get hit when they are friends or human shields. |
Nazir openly supports the Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad
BlinkyOmar and al-Qaeda leaders and is behind some of the deadliest attacks in Afghanistan.
"Al-Qaeda and the Taliban are one and the same," Nazir said. "At an operational level we might have different strategies, but at the policy level we are one and the same ... This is wrong that I am anti al-Qaeda. I am part of al Qaeda."
But a bigwig in Afghan Ministry of Defence said the comments cannot bring any big change.
"We call the comments propaganda and we keep ourselves prepared against any threat," Defence Ministry Spokesman Gen. Zaher Azimi said.