PESHAWAR,
September 26 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Taliban chief Mullah
Omar is still alive, and has been in Afghanistan since the U.S. war on
the war-torn country in October 2001, the Central Asia News Agency
(CANA) quoted the Taliban official spokesman as saying.
Omar,
who constantly changes his whereabouts, is in touch with Al-Qaeda
leader Osama Bin Laden, said Sayed Mohamed Tayeb Agha in an interview
with the agency from an unknown place.
The
Taliban chief is being guarded by eight-hundred students from
religious schools, he said, adding that the last time Omar saw Bin
Laden was in Kandahar at the time the American warplanes attacked
Afghanistan.
"A
big number of Osama's followers are still with us," said Agha.
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A plan to oust
the current traitor government in Afghanistan is ready
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"We
had surrendered Afghan towns, including Kandahar, according to a
studied plan," he added. By so doing, Taliban had won the trust
of the leaders of Afghan tribes.
Taliban
suffered some losses at the beginning of the U.S war on the country,
but their lines are now much more organized and that they are all in
good shape.
A
high ranking delegation of Taliban leaders made a number of field
trips to all Afghan towns in August 2002, where they met the leaders
of the tribes as well as the prominent figures of regions and
provinces to inform them of future plans, said Agha.
The
delegation was welcomed and tribe chiefs renewed their support of the
Taliban, confirming their will to cooperate with them.
"Capturing
Bin Laden was not the main target of the U.S. war on Afghanistan;
America’s aim was to control Afghanistan," Agha said, adding
that the fate of the Americans in the country will be just like that
of those who came before them - the Russians.
A
plan to oust the current traitor government in Afghanistan is ready,
the Taliban spokesman said, adding that negotiations are under way
between Taliban and former Afghan prime minister and Hizb-I-Islami
(Islamic Party) leader Ghulbuddin Hekmatyar, to join efforts against
invading foreign troops.
Taliban
and Hizb-I-Islami are not totally united, but have managed to mount a
number of joint operations against foreign troops in the country, and
the Mujahedin are waiting for orders from both sides to conduct
further joint operations.
Regardless
of the status quo, Taliban still controls 80% of Afghanistan, except
for the capital Kabul and a number of other big cities.
