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| Afghanistan |
| Talibs promise "decades" of war |
| 2001-11-05 |
Afghanistan’s Taleban regime said yesterday it was ready for decades of war as it fought a new opposition drive, backed by "cowardly" US airstrikes, toward the key northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif. At the same time, the military commander of the opposition forces said his troops were ready to march on the capital Kabul, although on the ground the anti-Taleban army looked far from ready for a major push. And while the United States pressed its nearly month-old air offensive, there were few signs of progress in its drive to root out the terrorists behind the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington. "We are ready for a long war and we hope to defeat the United States, which the rest of world calls a superpower," Taleban Education Minister and spokesman Amir Khan Muttaqi told reporters here. "The US should revise its wrong, terrorist policies, otherwise this war, which may last for decades, will burn many Americans and Afghans." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |