Everthing's Jihad in Waziristan , we're so lucky to have Pakistan on 'our' side
Pakistani mullas sent us for jihad, claim Taliban
Friday, October 20, 2006
Pakistani mullas sent us for jihad, claim Taliban
* Say no ‘infidels’ in Afghanistan, everyone there is Muslim
* Allege some clerics acting as middlemen for Taliban recruiters
BARMAL: Handcuffed and weary, three self-confessed Taliban fighters revealed this week how they had crossed into Afghanistan from Pakistan to carry out “jihad” against coalition troops there after clerics in Pakistan told them that they were duty-bound as Muslims to do so.
The young men - two Pakistanis and an Afghan - were captured on Tuesday after a fierce five-hour gunbattle in Afghanistan’s Paktika province, just a few kilometres from the Afghan-Pak border. During the battle, 24 of their fellow fighters were killed, with the Afghan army later showing their bloodied and broken bodies to reporters at an army base in Barmal district.
The dead were mostly Afghans but also included Pakistanis, Chechens, Turks, one Arab and one Yemenite, an Afghan officer said, citing information from the three detained fighters, as well as captured identity cards and, in one case, a name on a bullet belt.
“Mullahs in Pakistan were preaching to us that we are obliged to fight jihad in Afghanistan because there are foreign troops - there is an Angriz (British) invasion,” Alahuddin, one of the captured men, told reporters.
“No, really?
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