Four years on, Taliban vow to continue holy war

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SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Four years after U.S. forces launched their offensive to overthrow the Taliban, the guerrillas vowed on Friday to continue their holy war to rid Afghanistan of foreign troops.

Taliban military chief Mullah Dadullah told Reuters that Afghanistan had become a "hub of disturbance, killings, looting and drugs" since the Taliban's overthrow in late 2001.

Dadullah, speaking by satellite phone from an undisclosed location, denounced presidential and legislative elections in October 2004, and September 18 this year as U.S.-staged "dramas".

He said the latest polls for a national assembly and provincial councils had brought in "old murderers and warlords".

[Hubert Flottz]

1. "U.S.-staged "dramas".

We saw the same Drama unfolded in Ohio and Florida in 2004 Mr. Dadullah. It might help to write your congressman, but I hasn't helped here in the USS-of-A.

[SpiralHawk]

2. "Mission Accomplished" - George W. Bush

Thanks a pantload, Big George BushCo. You & Your Oil & Munitions Cronies have brought this unmitigaated horror upon the planet.

Crusade Vs. Jihad.

Ugh.