Taliban official warns of Ramadan attack on US
News from Afghanistan-The head of the Islamabad-based Al-Quds Media Centre has received an audio message from a senior Taliban leader in which he asked Muslims living in the US to leave the country as soon as possible "because God's punishment would fall on America in the month of Ramadan."
Jamal Ismail, a senior journalist who once worked for Al-Jazeera television channel and is now head of the Al-Quds Media Centre, told The News that he received a phone call Thursday from Taliban leader Mulla Masoom Afghani. "Afghani said he was speaking from somewhere in Kandahar province. He read out the message in Arabic, which I recorded. In it he advised Muslim residents of America to get out to escape harm because the US could face big attacks in the month of Ramadan," said Jamal Ismail.
According to Jamal Ismail, it was the first time that Afghani, who is head of the pro-Taliban clerics' consultative council and the former ambassador of Afghanistan to Pakistan, had conveyed such a message. "Afghani didn't say that it was a dream. It appeared that he strongly believed that America was going to face punishment at the hands of Allah," he explained.
A Fatwa isssued from a cave, no doubt. Is this referring to the American Hiroshima again? More rhetoric or the real deal? This is one case where I don't want to see a little less talk and a lot more action.
It is interesting that this is not only the month of Ramadan but also of halloween. And the Taliban, like Allah and his prophet Mo, are just another boogeyman, as far as I am concerned.
Labels: Afghanistan, American Hiroshima, Ramadan, Taliban, War On Terror
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