Mullah Omar: Taliban no Threat to US

[unhappycamper]

Mullah Omar: Taliban no Threat to US
Associated Press | February 11, 2008

KABUL, Afghanistan - The reclusive leader of the Taliban said Monday the Islamic militia is not a threat to other countries and he called on citizens of NATO nations to pressure their governments to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.

Mullah Omar also said the U.S. military has failed in Afghanistan and that is why the Pentagon is pressuring other NATO countries to send more troops, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid quoted Omar as saying. Mujahid has spoken on behalf of Omar previously, though the validity of his statements could not be verified.

"This is our right to defend our country. We are not a threat to other countries. But we have to use our rights when our country is occupied by foreign forces," Mujahid quoted Omar as saying. "We want the people of other countries to pressure their governments not to send troops to Afghanistan."

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has been pushing NATO countries to increase their troop levels in Afghanistan. Last week Gates said he fears NATO may become a "two-tiered alliance," with "some allies willing to fight and die to protect people's security, and others who are not."

Of the 42,000 total NATO troops in Afghanistan, about 14,000 are American. The United States has another 13,000 operating separately hunting terrorists and training Afghan forces.


Rest of article at: http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,161803,00.html

[SKKY]

1. Um, yea, right...

...Please leave so we can continue haveing public executions in our Soccer Stadiums, beat our women at our leisure, and grow massive amounts of poppy to pay for our terrorist organizations. No threat my ass. Mullah Omar is one of THE threats.

[CJCRANE]

5. In fact

poppy cultivation was banned and almost wiped out under the Taliban.

So, Bush-Cheney's policies have created "Taliban Plus", new-improved fundamentalists flush with billions of dollars of drug money.

[SKKY]

6. Banned for anyone OTHER THAN the Taliban...

...that was one of their dirty little secrets, ban it in the eyes of the world, but take control of it and make money off of it.

[acmavm]

2. Mullah Omar? Now where have I heard that name before? Oh, yeah!

Isn't he one of two guys that bush** swore he'd be taking care of after 911? Instead the guys holding news conferences.

Amazing.

[johnnydrama]

3. except

Pakistan is at the end of that sentence where Bush said, you're either with us or against us. Except Pakistan. They can play both sides.

[izzie]

4. Maybe not to us but I sure pity the poor people under him.

I always have trouble with that type of business. How cam we step in and make them treat people as we think is right, in their country? We in the USA sure do not have a pure record on that even if I think we are not as bad as most countries.