Taliban holds anti-US pow-wow

[salin]

Taliban holds anti-US pow-wow

By Amir Shah in Kabul
September 22, 2003
TALIBAN supreme commander Mullah Mohammed Omar has held a meeting with other Taliban leaders to reorganise their resurgent campaign against US forces and the Afghan government, a purported spokesman for the group said today.

The spokesman, who said his name was Sayed Hamid Agha, telephoned Associated Press reporters in Afghanistan and Pakistan and read out a statement.

"Over the last few days, we established a shura (council) under the leadership of Mullah Omar," Agha said. "The shura appointed four committees - military, political, cultural and economic to regulate all relevant matters."

One of the two AP reporters recognised the man's voice and knew him to be a Taliban militant. He also received a written copy of the same statement from a second man with suspected Taliban ties in the western Pakistani city of Peshawar.

more: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,7336770%255E1702,00.html

[xchrom]

1. gone -- but not forgotten

the other resounding success of the bush doctrine.

[rocktivity]

2. Taliban? What Taliban?

We got rid of those guys, remember? A hoax, obviously--either that, or a story planted to generate public sympathy for Bush.


rocknation

[lazarus]

3. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=125757