[PJMedia] The Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
’s defense minister, Maulvi Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid, recently responded to news that the U.S. plans to station 2,000 troops at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul by presenting what he considered to be a tit-for-tat: according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), the austere diplomat tweeted: "If America wants 2,000 English [i.e., American] troops at its embassy in Afghanistan, we also want 2,000 Fidayeen Mujahideen [i.e., jacket wallahs] from the Fateh Force at the embassy of Afghanistan in America." Two-thousand suicide bombers in Washington! It’ll almost be like Congress, but bigger.
MEMRI explains that "fidayeen is another term used by jihadi groups for their suicide bombers. ’Fateh Force,’ or ’victorious force,’ is a ’martyrdom force’ within the Badri 313 unit of the Islamic Emirate [of Afghanistan]. Badri 313 is named after the Ghazwa-e-Badr, the first Islamic battle led by Islam’s founder Muhammad in which 313 Moslems defeated thousands of non-Moslem rustics." |