SI
SI
discoversearch

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor.  We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community.  If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.
Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: maceng2 who wrote (9494)11/9/2001 6:03:59 AM
From: Selectric II  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
I think I'm going to cry. It's clear that the Taliban is probably the most ruthless, inhuman organization enjoying power on the face of the earth. They're inflicting this merciless suffering on the people they've conquered and the lands they've occupied, and they could easily put an end to it. They call themselves "students"? They skipped class on the wrong days.



To: maceng2 who wrote (9494)11/9/2001 1:23:21 PM
From: BigBull  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
Well maybe the Paks could hang out in Uncle Binnies cave for the winter? Ooops! I forgot, that cave probably has a sign out in front - "Arabs Only"

Imo next spring or maybe earlier the sign will read - UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT!

:oD



To: maceng2 who wrote (9494)11/13/2001 10:06:48 AM
From: maceng2  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
Taliban say leader and bin Laden are safe

ananova.com

The Taliban say leader Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden are alive and well after the fall of Kabul.

Taliban forces are said to be heading for their southern stronghold of Kandahar.

There are unconfirmed reports that bin Laden and Omar have crossed over to Pakistan's North West Frontier Province.

RIA Novosti quotes Mukhitdin Mekhti, the Northern Alliance envoy in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe, as saying that bin Laden has fled Afghanistan and is hiding in Pakistan.

The Urdu language Inquilab newspaper quotes Taliban sources as saying that the Saudi renegade, his two sons, and Mullah Omar, have fled, anticipating the fall of Kabul.

The report says bin Laden has ordered his al-Qaida fighters to make a tactical retreat to the mountains to counter the offensive by the opposition Northern Alliance.

An official said Omar had told the Taliban to prepare to wage guerrilla war.

"Some of the Taliban commanders were surprised and taken aback when Mullah Omar ordered withdrawing from Kabul and preparing for a protracted guerrilla war," he said.

The Taliban official confirmed that in the last few days they had lost 40% of the areas under their control before the US military campaign started in Afghanistan.

Earlier, reports from Kandahar indicated the Taliban are abandoning their stronghold in southern Afghanistan.

A Kandahar resident said many Taliban figures appeared to have left the city, except for uniformed militia police.