U.S. Forces Shocked And Awed By 15 Missile Blitz
KANDAHAR (AZZAM):
In a ferocious Mujahideen operation 12 missiles were fired at Coalition locations
in Paktia province all of which hit their target killing a suspected significantly
high number of US casualties, however no official details of losses have
been released by US forces.
In a separate attack, a Mujahideen unit
fired three missiles at US forces in Gardez city, no details of casualties
were available.
U.S. Claims to Have Arrested Several Taliban Sympathisers
KANDAHAR
(AZZAM): US Military spokesman Roger King claimed to have arrested several
suspects having links with the Taliban in operations in Southern Afghanistan
and to also have found large ammunition stores. This large scale operation
was initiated last week in which US Gunship helicopters were also employed.
Oil Tanker Explodes Near U.S. Base in Southern Afghanistan
KANDAHAR (AZZAM): An Afghani official on the basis of anonymity disclosed that an oil tanker exploded near a US base in Southern Afghanistan close to Kandahar Airport
late on Wednesday night. This Pakistani oil tanker which was carrying 45,000
litres of oil which is vital to the American crusade to US bases in Southern Afghanistan
was destroyed by a bomb, however no casualties were reported. There were
seven other oil tankers in the convoy carrying oil from Pakistan to American bases in Afghanistan, however they managed to do so without damage.
After the incident, Afghan officials blamed the Taliban or men loyal to Hekmatyaar for the attack.
Taliban wants 'spring offensive'
Kabul
- Top Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah Akhund in an interview with the BBC
has called for a spring offensive against US troops in Afghanistan and claimed
fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar is still alive.
«It is an appropriate
time; before it was very cold and now it is time for war», he said in an
interview with the BBC's Pashto service.
Spring is traditionally the start of the fighting season in Afghanistan after the bitter winter.
«We
will launch an uprising for the interests of our people and country and continue
jihad (holy war)», said Akhund, who was a Taliban commander in northern Afghanistan until the extremists were toppled by a US-led coalition following the September 11 attacks.
«For
example... the road to Dara-i-noor is blocked, probably you know or will
know now that we arrested 65 Afghans and Americans, we burned three vehicles
and took one vehicle with us and killed two of them», he claimed, saying
he was in Afghanistan for the interview broadcast on Friday.
An
International Committee for the Red Cross worker was killed on Thursday by
unidentified gunmen while travelling in a two-vehicle convoy through Khakrez
district between Kandahar and central Oruzgan province.
Expel the unbelievers
One
of the vehicles was burnt while the attackers fled in the other. A convoy
of three government vehicles had earlier come under attack in the same area.
Provincial
military officials said on Saturday operations were launched in the Dara-i-noor
valley in Khakrez district in search of the gunmen. In neighbouring Helmand
province two US Special Operations Forces personnel were killed and another
seriously injured in an ambush on Saturday by unidentified gunmen.
Akhund claimed he had the support of former premier Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who has been declared a terrorist by the United States, and his extremists.
«Before
all over Afghanistan Hekmatyar was against us and now he is with us. All
Afghans - old, young mujahids and non-mujahids - everyone has decided to
expel the unbelievers and invaders. No one will stand against us in the whole
of Afghanistan», he said.
Asked whether it was not time for reconstruction after decades of war, Akhund said the US-led war in Iraq showed Americans were not interested in reconstruction.
Bin Laden alive
«The reconstruction of Afghanistan is not like this as you see war on Iraq has been started and Americans attacked Iraqi muslims under the name of reconstructing their country», he said.
«And now the people of Afghanistan also understand that Americans are not reconstructing our country but destroying it», he said.
Akhund also claimed fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar was still alive.
«Mullah
Omar is alive. We have appointed leaders and commanders based on his handwritten
letter, we have started jihad based on his handwritten letter, and we work
based on his orders», he said.
However he said he did not know where al-Qaeda leader and terror mastermind Osama bin Laden was.
«We don't know where Osama bin Laden is because his whereabouts were not known in Afghanistan even to military people», he said.
Despite
a massive international manhunt and multimillion dollar prices on their heads,
Mullah Omar and bin Laden has so far eluded capture. - Sapa-AFP.
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