Taliban official warns of Ramazan attack on US

[The Straight Story]

Taliban official warns of Ramazan attack on US

By our correspondent

PESHAWAR: The head of the Islamabad-based Al-Quds Media Centre has received an audio message from a senior Taliban leader in which he asked Muslims living in the US to leave the country as soon as possible “because God’s punishment would fall on America in the month of Ramazan.”

Jamal Ismail, a senior journalist who once worked for Al-Jazeera television channel and is now head of the Al-Quds Media Centre, told The News that he received a phone call Thursday from Taliban leader Mulla Masoom Afghani. “Afghani said he was speaking from somewhere in Kandahar province. He read out the message in Arabic, which I recorded. In it he advised Muslim residents of America to get out to escape harm because the US could face big attacks in the month of Ramazan,” said Jamal Ismail.

According to Jamal Ismail, it was the first time that Afghani, who is head of the pro-Taliban clerics’ consultative council and the former ambassador of Afghanistan to Pakistan, had conveyed such a message. “Afghani didn’t say that it was a dream. It appeared that he strongly believed that America was going to face punishment at the hands of Allah,” he explained.

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[Eurobabe]

1. I thought it was Ramadan, and this sounds like a BushFearFactor ploy

TERRA, TERRA, TERRA

[Raksha]

2. It could be a Bush Fear Factor ploy they intend to make good on.

In other words, another LIHOP. I don't find that idea reassuring in the least.

[aquart]

3. Something else Bush hasn't bothered to protect us from?

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Before or after November 7? n/t