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Saturday September 15 12:41 AM ET
Taliban Leader Urges Muslims to Prepare for Jihad
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The supreme leader of Afghanistan (news - web sites)'s
ruling Taliban has urged Muslims there and around to world to face the threat
of U.S. attack firmly and prepare for jihad (holy war) to defend their faith.
Mullah Mohammad Omar told the Taliban Voice of Shariat Radio on Friday in an
address monitored by the British Broadcasting Corporation but plagued by poor
reception that Afghanistan was an obvious target as a true Muslim state.
The United States, he added, saw this as a danger sign and he cautioned
against handing over Saudi-born dissident Osama bin Laden (news - web sites),
the key suspect in Tuesday's terror attack on New York and Washington.
``You should know that this is not only the issue of Osama, it is opposition
to Islam,'' Mullah Omar said, according to a BBC transcript.
``Here (in Afghanistan) there are real Muslims and there is real Islam, and
the real voice of religion is raised. They regard this as a danger signal and
pay attention to this danger signal,'' he added, referring to the United
States.
Mullah Omar recalled that the British and Russian empires had failed to
impose their will on the Afghan people in the 19th and 20th centuries and
urged Afghans to stand firm against any U.S. attack.
``Be ready for jihad,'' Mullah Omar said.
``Each Muslim should be ready for a jihad against this and be ready for his
religion if there is a need for him to sacrifice himself for Islam and his
belief, and make a sacrifice for the symbol of belief in Islam,'' he said.
President Bush (news - web sites), calling this week's terror attacks in
Washington and New York ``acts of war,'' is seeking an alliance against those
who attacked the United States this week.
Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) said Washington would now
judge countries by their willingness to help.
Omar, for his part, called on the world's Muslims to support Islam and defend
Afghanistan.
``All the Muslims in the world should support their Islam and their own
belief, should defend Afghanistan, should defend Muslims and should be ready
for anything to make a sacrifice for Islam,'' Mullah Omar declared.
``If they don't do this, then they don't do it. It depends on everybody and
it is everybody's own business. But they should defend their history and
their Islam and their belief.''
Omar said that bin Laden could not have been the mastermind behind the
attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon (news - web sites)
in Washington, in which suicide squads flew hijacked airliners into the
buildings, killing several thousand people.
``Those who sacrifice their lives have a particular purpose and goal. They
are not afraid of America or of anybody else. Those who sacrifice their lives
don't need Osama to be glad or not glad, or Osama to order them or not,'' he
added.
Omar's broadcast was partially monitored by Reuters in Islamabad on Friday
despite poor reception.
In it he said that Muslims should not fear death and each should be ready to
die for their faith.
``Whether America will launch cruise missiles or drop bombs or create
aggression or whatever it does is ahead of us. We cannot save our skins by
cowardice or in any other way,'' the BBC transcript said.
``If they do this or have the will (to do this) or if God has this will, then
it will happen. We cannot save our skins from this.''
True believers, he added, had a duty to defend their faith and the symbols of
it.
``Each Muslim should think deeply and defend Islam and the Koran. Almighty
God is kind and will give victory to these people. If you die for your belief
it is a great victory, or if nothing happens it is also a great victory,'' he
added.
``The greatness of the flag of Islam is that, if everything is finished, the
flag and the symbol of belief in Islam will remain high. If you destroy the
flag, it means you agree with things which are what they (enemies) want. By
this you destroy the zeal and name of Islam and cover it with dirt.''
Saturday September 15 3:04 AM ET
Taliban Say May Attack Neighbors Helping U.S.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Afghanistan (news - web sites)'s ruling Taliban said on
Saturday they might attack any neighbor which gave assistance to U.S. strikes
on their country, the Afghan Islamic Press reported.
``If a neighboring country allows its soil or its air to be used in an attack
against Afghanistan...in that case the possibility cannot be ruled out that
we attack that country,'' the Foreign Ministry said in a statement issued in
Kabul.
``We'll be forced to send our mujahideen into their territory ... they will
be responsible for the consequences,'' the Pakistan-based news agency said.
The Taliban is considered a pariah movement by the United States because it
shelters Saudi-born dissident Osama bin Laden (news - web sites), who
Washington has implicated in Tuesday's terror attacks in New York and
Washington that killed thousands.
The U.S. has threatened to retaliate against those responsible for the
attacks and any country which shelters them.
It launched cruise missile raids on bin Laden's Afghanistan bases in 1998
after he was blamed for the deadly bomb attacks on the U.S. embassies in
Kenya and Tanzania.
Pakistan, one of only three countries to recognize the Taliban government,
has promised full cooperation to the U.S. in its hunt for the perpetrators,
but has not yet said what form this help might take.
Earlier, the Taliban's leader threatened a holy war, or jihad, against any
country which attacked Afghanistan.
Mullah Mohammad Omar told the Taliban Voice of Shariat Radio in an address
monitored by the British Broadcasting Corporation but plagued by poor
reception that Afghanistan was an obvious target as a true Muslim state.
The United States, he added, saw this as a danger sign and he cautioned
against handing over Saudi-born dissident Osama bin Laden, the key suspect in
Tuesday's terror attacks.
``You should know that this is not only the issue of Osama, it is opposition
to Islam,'' Mullah Omar said, according to a BBC transcript.
``Here (in Afghanistan) there are real Muslims and there is real Islam, and
the real voice of religion is raised. They regard this as a danger signal and
pay attention to this danger signal,'' he added, referring to the United
States.
Mullah Omar recalled that the British and Russian empires had failed to
impose their will on the Afghan people in the 19th and 20th centuries and
urged Afghans to stand firm against any U.S. attack.
``Be ready for jihad,'' Mullah Omar said.
``Each Muslim should be ready for a jihad against this and be ready for his
religion if there is a need for him to sacrifice himself for Islam and his
belief, and make a sacrifice for the symbol of belief in Islam,'' he said.
He said that Muslims should not fear death and each should be ready to die
for their faith.
``Whether America will launch cruise missiles or drop bombs or create
aggression or whatever it does is ahead of us. We cannot save our skins by
cowardice or in any other way.''
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