Afghan Minister: Al Qaeda Opens Second Front
By REUTERS
Filed at 6:52 a.m. ET
KABUL (Reuters) - The al Qaeda network has stepped up activity along
the Afghan-Pakistan border, opening a ``second front'' to divert U.S.
military resources and attention from Iraq, Afghanistan's interior
minister said Friday.
Ali Ahmad Jalali said some recent attacks on U.S. forces, especially
in the east of the country, had been carried out by foreign al Qaeda
fighters, as opposed to native Taliban militia.
Militants killed in clashes on the Afghan and Pakistan sides of the
border in recent weeks included Arabs, Chechens, Uzbeks and
Pakistanis, a sign they were from the network of Saudi-born dissident
Osama bin Laden, whose fate remains a mystery.
``Al Qaeda, not the al Qaeda leadership that is concerned only about
Afghanistan, but the whole area, the whole region, want to keep
another front open in Afghanistan while they fight in Iraq in order to
split the attention of the United States,'' Jalali told Reuters in an
interview.
``Since the war in Iraq, they have been trying to stir up things in
Afghanistan.''
The Taliban were ousted from power by U.S.-led forces in late 2001 for
refusing to hand over bin Laden, but have been trying to regroup this
year in their former southern heartlands.
U.S.-led forces in Paktika province, which borders tribal areas in
Pakistan where Taliban and al Qaeda operatives are believed to be
hiding, have come under increasing attack in recent months.
In late October the U.S. army said it had killed around 18 rebels in a
six-hour firefight near their base in Shkin.
``Most of the attackers ... killed were Arabs, Chechens and Uzbeks and
also Pakistanis, and they are not Taliban,'' Jalali said. ``They
belong to al Qaeda.''
The U.S. military has also reported signs of increasing activity by al
Qaeda militants near Shkin, but says most of the rebels it encounters
in the country are Afghans.
Jalali said Pakistan's claim to have arrested 500 suspected al Qaeda
and allied fighters since joining the U.S.-led war on terror showed
there were probably plenty more at large, both in Pakistan and
Afghanistan.
TALIBAN THREAT
Jalali described a ``triangle'' of militants in Afghanistan, led by
renegade warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in the northeast, al Qaeda in the
east and the Taliban in the south.
More than 350 people have been killed in Afghanistan in the last three
months, including many rebels, U.S. soldiers, Afghan troops and
policemen, local aid workers and civilians.
U.S. casualties in Afghanistan have been light compared to those in
Iraq, with between 30 and 40 soldiers killed in action and a similar
number of ``non-hostile'' deaths.
Many of the attacks are blamed on the hard-line Islamic Taliban, also
believed to be behind the recent kidnapping of a Turkish engineer
working on a major reconstruction project.
Jalali said that there was no easy military solution to the militant
threat, and the government of President Hamid Karzai, whose influence
is weak outside Kabul, must win back the trust of the people.
``The people's trust in government is the key to stability and
security,'' he said.
One government official, who asked not to be named, said Kabul was
open to contact with moderate elements of the Taliban, citing a decree
issued by the president this week pardoning eight Taliban militants
arrested in the central Uruzgan province.
Former Taliban foreign minister Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil has already
contacted the government, pledging support for Karzai. Officials say
he is no longer in U.S. detention but in Kandahar city with some kind
of security for his own protection.
Building bridges with moderate Taliban would weaken the resurgent
movement, officials explained.
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08 Nov 2003 05:58:20 AM |
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On 7 Nov 2003 20:15:32 -0800, (Arnold
Holbrook) wrote:
Afghan Minister: Al Qaeda Opens Second Front
Good. Let's hope they kick the American scum out of there as well as
Iraq.
"life is like a mushroom, they feed you ***** and keep you in the dark"
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| User: "Arnold Holbrook" |
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| Title: Re: Afghan Minister: Al Qaeda Opens Second Front (***** YOU DAARKSYDE, go put on your darth vader ***** mask and hiss!) |
08 Nov 2003 11:59:19 AM |
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wrote in message news:<jhmpqv0uuvhiglp7vqcahimf88vqci2ki5@4ax.com>...
On 7 Nov 2003 20:15:32 -0800, (Arnold
Holbrook) wrote:
Afghan Minister: Al Qaeda Opens Second Front
Good. Let's hope they kick the American scum out of there as well as
Iraq.
Hey you fucking shitball ***** masturbater, why don't you go join up
and deploy? Litlle ***** obviously feels so secure that he can take
his freedom so much for granted and make fucking low down statements
like this...but ***** it... just go to Afghanistan and join these
Islamic fundamentalists and GET KILLED.
You do not deserve to have the rights of an American
I fought in Iraq. Did I support the war? NO. But I will never tolerate
statements that call for advocating the death of my fellow soldiers
I actually feel COMPLIMENTED by ignorant statements like this, becuase
it tells me you are so secure, and we must doing such a good job, that
you can afford to make ignorance statements becuase you take your
security so much for granted.
"life is like a mushroom, they feed you ***** and keep you in the dark"
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Afghan Minister: Al Qaeda Opens Second Front (***** YOU DAARKSYDE, go put on your darth vader ***** mask and hiss!) |
08 Nov 2003 12:22:42 PM |
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On 8 Nov 2003 09:59:19 -0800, (Arnold
Holbrook) wrote:
DaarkSyde@home.com wrote in message news:<jhmpqv0uuvhiglp7vqcahimf88vqci2ki5@4ax.com>...
On 7 Nov 2003 20:15:32 -0800, (Arnold
Holbrook) wrote:
Afghan Minister: Al Qaeda Opens Second Front
Good. Let's hope they kick the American scum out of there as well as
Iraq.
You do not deserve to have the rights of an American
What rights? You dumb fucks are losing more of your rights everyday
and don't even realize it. Shows how stupid you American scum are.
I fought in Iraq. Did I support the war? NO. But I will never tolerate
statements that call for advocating the death of my fellow soldiers
You fought in Iraq? Feel good to be a baby killer *****? You must be
real proud to kill innocent women and children. Not to worry, you will
get what's coming to you *****-for-brains.
I actually feel COMPLIMENTED by ignorant statements like this, becuase
it tells me you are so secure, and we must doing such a good job, that
you can afford to make ignorance statements becuase you take your
security so much for granted.
I am not an American asswipe, and would be ashamed to admit it if I
was.
"life is like a mushroom, they feed you ***** and keep you in the dark"
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| User: "Arnold Holbrook" |
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| Title: Re: Afghan Minister: Al Qaeda Opens Second Front (***** YOU DAARKSYDE, go put on your darth vader ***** mask and hiss!) |
08 Nov 2003 04:02:38 PM |
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You fought in Iraq? Feel good to be a baby killer *****? You must be
real proud to kill innocent women and children. Not to worry, you will
get what's coming to you *****-for-brains.
And you will too. Baby killer...I'll let your words speak for themselves.
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| User: "Arnold Holbrook" |
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| Title: Re: Afghan Minister: Al Qaeda Opens Second Front (***** YOU DAARKSYDE, go put on your darth vader ***** mask and hiss!) |
08 Nov 2003 04:10:26 PM |
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Baby killers, yep plenty of them in Iraq, wether they have the Baath
Party Eagle hidden in their desks at home, wether they are putting car
bombs in front of mosques, or wether they wear DCU's and frustrated
and scared shitless and want to go home.
Takes one to know one.
***** YOU.
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Afghan Minister: Al Qaeda Opens Second Front (***** YOU DAARKSYDE, go put on your darth vader ***** mask and hiss!) |
09 Nov 2003 06:15:10 AM |
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On 8 Nov 2003 14:10:26 -0800, (Arnold
Holbrook) wrote:
Baby killers, yep plenty of them in Iraq, .called US soldiers.
Hahahaha what's the matter Yank? Truth hurt? Hahahahahaha
"life is like a mushroom, they feed you ***** and keep you in the dark"
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| User: "Leader for Life Brandon" |
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| Title: Re: Afghan Minister: Al Qaeda Opens Second Front (***** YOU DAARKSYDE, go put on your darth vader ***** mask and hiss!) |
08 Nov 2003 10:53:56 PM |
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why don't you go home and suicide bomb some jews then.
On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 13:22:42 -0500, wrote:
On 8 Nov 2003 09:59:19 -0800, (Arnold
Holbrook) wrote:
wrote in message news:<jhmpqv0uuvhiglp7vqcahimf88vqci2ki5@4ax.com>...
On 7 Nov 2003 20:15:32 -0800, (Arnold
Holbrook) wrote:
Afghan Minister: Al Qaeda Opens Second Front
Good. Let's hope they kick the American scum out of there as well as
Iraq.
You do not deserve to have the rights of an American
What rights? You dumb fucks are losing more of your rights everyday
and don't even realize it. Shows how stupid you American scum are.
I fought in Iraq. Did I support the war? NO. But I will never tolerate
statements that call for advocating the death of my fellow soldiers
You fought in Iraq? Feel good to be a baby killer *****? You must be
real proud to kill innocent women and children. Not to worry, you will
get what's coming to you *****-for-brains.
I actually feel COMPLIMENTED by ignorant statements like this, becuase
it tells me you are so secure, and we must doing such a good job, that
you can afford to make ignorance statements becuase you take your
security so much for granted.
I am not an American asswipe, and would be ashamed to admit it if I
was.
"life is like a mushroom, they feed you ***** and keep you in the dark"
.
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Afghan Minister: Al Qaeda Opens Second Front (***** YOU DAARKSYDE, go put on your darth vader ***** mask and hiss!) |
09 Nov 2003 06:16:01 AM |
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On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 04:53:56 GMT, Leader for Life Brandon
<blozza[nospam]@rogers.com> wrote:
why don't you go home and suicide bomb some jews then.
I'll leave that to the terrorist US army.
"life is like a mushroom, they feed you ***** and keep you in the dark"
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| User: "Leader for Life Brandon" |
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| Title: Re: Afghan Minister: Al Qaeda Opens Second Front (***** YOU DAARKSYDE, go put on your darth vader ***** mask and hiss!) |
09 Nov 2003 03:24:59 PM |
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The only terrorists come from the middle east
On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 07:16:01 -0500, wrote:
On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 04:53:56 GMT, Leader for Life Brandon
<blozza[nospam]@rogers.com> wrote:
why don't you go home and suicide bomb some jews then.
I'll leave that to the terrorist US army.
"life is like a mushroom, they feed you ***** and keep you in the dark"
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