[iwar] [fc:Interview.with.Mullah.Mohammed.Omar]

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Date: 2001-10-28 14:16:37

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The Times of India (Oct 28, 2001)

ALGIERS: Leader of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban regime Mullah 
Mohammed Omar said in an Algerian newspaper interview on Sunday that 
the "real war" against the US had not yet begun, and promised to give 
the US "a bitter lesson".

"We will give (the Americans) a more bitter lesson than the one we 
gave the Russians," he said in an interview published in daily 
newspaper El Youm "We have not yet begun the real war against the US 
because of their technological superiority," he said, adding US 
troops "will not be welcomed with flowers."

The Soviet Union suffered a crushing military defeat when it invaded 
and occupied Afghanistan between 1979 and 1989. Omar also charged 
that the US-led war in Afghanistan was not targeted at Osama Bin 
Laden, suspected mastermind of the September 11 terrorist attacks 
which devastated the US, but was intended to destroy Afghanistan and 
"concretise its hegemonistic objectives in this region of the world."

Referring to negotiations on establishing a post-Taliban government, 
centred around former Afghan king Mohammed Zahir Shah and the 
opposition Northern Alliance, he said that he "categorically refused 
that Washington and other western countries impose on us, people who 
have abandoned us."

"The fate of anyone who collaborates with (the US and Northern 
Alliance) will be death... and those who hope to be brought to power 
by US tanks will be disappointed, because we will use jehad (holy 
war) to ensure that the Afghan people remain the sole rulers" in the 
country, Omar said.&lt;br&lt;br He denied that there were internal rifts 
within the Taliban regime or its army, saying "our soldiers are 
mujahideen who have chosen the cause of their religion" and "any 
attempt to divert them from this will fail."

On Friday, exiled Afghan leader Abdul Haq was executed by the Taliban 
as an American spy. A hero of the Afghan resistance to the Soviet 
Union and a leader of the dominant Pashtun tribe, he had entered 
Afghanistan last week in a bid to encourage elements of the Taliban 
to rebel against the leadership.

The leader of the Taliban further said that diplomatic relations 
between the Taliban and neighbouring Pakistan were still intact, and 
praised the Pakistani people and "the people of all Muslim countries" 
for their support.

Omar expressed his wish that Muslim countries "act to reduce the 
pressure on us and to make the US understand that any act of 
aggression against a Muslim state will not go unpunished."&lt;br&lt;br 
Referring to the fate of Bin Laden, Omar asked that "Washington 
supply us with proof of his guilt" for the September 11 attacks.

"We are prepared to try him in Afghanistan or before a group of 
Muslim ulemas (council of learned clerics) in three Arab countries," 
Omar said of the Saudi-born dissident, without specifying the 
countries.&lt;br&lt;br Omar denied that members of his family or other 
Taliban leaders had been killed or injured in the US-led attacks on 
Afghanistan, which began three weeks ago, but did confirm that his 
home had been hit.&lt;br&lt;br "My family is in good health, despite the 
fact that my home has been bombed," he said. "I challenge the US to 
give the name of just one (Taliban) leader who they say has been 
killed, whereupon we will prove that he is still undertaking his 
duties."

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