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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nikole Wollerstein who wrote (8146)	10/21/2001 3:13:50 PM
From: Lola	Respond to of 27666

Taliban asks Pak religious groups to send 500,000 volunteers PTI LONDON, October 21, 23:05 Taliban has requested religious groups in Pakistan to send in at least 500,000 volunteers even as the US launched ground attacks inside Afghanistan this weekend, media reports said on Sunday. The demand for volunteers will go up. "Every second day, some 500 to 1,000 people are crossing the border to join the Taliban," a Sunday Times reporter quoted a cleric in Karachi as saying. Even British Muslims are exressing their solidarity with the Taliban and are willing to fight the US-led forces. Two British Muslim volunteers will take up arms this week against American and British forces fighting the Taliban. Abdul Halim, 24, a Bangladeshi from Whitechapel in east London, is already a trained fighter. He spent four months in the war-torn country last year with Osama bin laden's Al-Qaida network. "When I was on the front line, there were Arabs, Pakistanis, Indonesians and Uzbeks," Halim said. "There was danger. The Northern Alliance are fine marksmen and one once shot me out of a tree." According to the report, Halim described how he had been trained in sabotage techniques and hand-to-hand combat by Bangladeshis attached to the Al-Qaida network. He learnt, in particular, how to use mercury switches, a key component of terror bombs, but had never been asked to plant one. The second volunteer, who called himself Abdullah, 21,is a telecommunications engineer from Ilford. With his face hidden by a headscarf, he said bin Laden was an "inspiration" and justified fighting the American and British forces. "I would consider myself a hypocrite if I lived in Britain while it was waging war against Afghanistan without doing anything about it," he said. thenewspapertoday.com