Taliban Preparing For Spring Attack

       The Taliban military commander,Mullah Dadullah, in an interview with

Al Jazeera said that more than 6,000 fighters are deployed and preparing for a spring offensive against the Afghan government and their allies. I guess that would be the United States, in particular.

 

"The attack is imminent," he told Al Jazeera's Arabic channel in an interview aired on Wednesday.

"The number of Taliban mujahidin who are ready to launch the spring battle has reached 6000," he told Ahmed Zeidan, the Kabul bureau chief of Al Jazeera's Arabic channel.
Dadullah said that the fighters were concealed in tunnels and elsewhere in preparation for launching their attack.

He said he might even be able to deploy even more volunteers if Nato troop increases continued to prompt more Afghans to take up arms. "It may rise to 10.000," he said.
"The more the number of Jewish and Christian soldiers who fight us increases, the more the Afghan people will be encouraged to join us."

   But wait, there's more!

Taliban commanders also told Al Jazeera that they had obtained new weapons suitable for use against helicopters.
Although they provided no further details, the Taliban provided footage of the burning wreckage of an aircraft which they said was a US helicopter which they had shot down near Kandahar two months ago.

The US military depends on its helicopters to reach remote parts of Afghanistan [AFP]

Eight US soldiers were killed and 14 were wounded when their Chinook helicopter crashed in Kabul province on Sunday

   George Bush's war on terror just keeps getting better and better, doesn't it?

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