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Taliban vows to continue fight against foreign forces
Afghanistan News.Net
Wednesday 5th March, 2008 (IANS)
Kabul, March 5 (Xinhua) Taliban militants in Afghanistan vowed Wednesday to continue their fight against the government and the international troops until the withdrawal of the foreign forces from the country.
In a statement read out to media in south Afghanistan through mobile phone, the outfit's spokesman Qari Yusuf Ahmadi stressed that the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (name of the outfit's ousted regime) would continue the war against the United States and its allies in Afghanistan.
The statement also termed the US troops as an occupation force and called on Afghans to join the militants in the fight against the US and its allies in the country.
The outfit also called on NATO to pull out its troops from Afghanistan.
It also stressed that Taliban wanted to have friendly relations with all countries of the world.
In the statement, the militants condemned the recently adopted UN Security Council resolution against Iran and Israel's attacks against Palestine in Gaza Strip.
The fundamentalist outfit also denounced the publication of the cartoon of Islam's prophet Mohammad in a Danish newspaper and making film on the Prophet by a Dutch company and called on the Muslims of the world to strongly condemn it.
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