From: Stasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Afghanistan: '300,000 Afghans ready to fight', says ambassador - Ananova [WWW.S Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- '300,000 Afghans ready to fight', says ambassador - Ananova ========================================== Some 300,000 Afghans have volunteered to defend their nation from US invasion and every man and woman is ready for jihad - or holy war. The country's ambassador to Pakistan says there is no prospect of compromise over the refusal of the Taliban to hand over Osama bin Laden to the US authorities. Bin Laden is out of sight in hiding, but the Taliban authorities has not lost track of him, says Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef. He told Channel 4 News: "We don't say that we have lost him, but he is out of sight. He is living in an unknown hideout." Zaeef says he believes bin Laden is aware of the decision of the gathering of Afghanistan's mullahs, known as the Ulema, to ask him to leave the country. "I think he might have received the message of the Ulema council requesting him to leave Afghanistan voluntarily but what happens now we will have to see." Asked if there was any chance of compromise on giving up bin Laden, he was emphatic: "No, it is not in the Muslim tradition to compromise." He says his country is preparing for invasion. "Three hundred thousand people have offered to wage jihad and the government's organising them, but the whole nation is ready, every man and woman is ready for jihad." http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_408916.html _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
