Mullah Omar warns US of war
By Badie Qarhani


ON AFGHNISTAN-PAKISTAN BORDER, 17 May — The former Taleban ruler of Afghanistan Mullah Muhammad Omar has warned that his war with the United States has only started and its flames would engulf the White House.

In an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat, a sister publication of Arab News, Omar also said that Osama Bin Laden is alive. Referring to the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington, he said the “great actions” were significant historical events, which achieved their ends. These will be repeated if the United States does not remove their causes, Omar said. The Taleban chief also had a message for the Palestinians: continue the struggle.

This was Omar’s first interview with a journalist for over two years. This reporter met Omar’s special information adviser after an appointment. The reporter was asked to hand over a questionnaire. This was translated into Pashto and taken to Omar. His answers were translated back into Arabic and handed over to the reporter.

The former Taleban chief said his organization did not believe the war had ended in Afghanistan, or in Palestine or in any other Muslim country for that matter. “As for Afghanistan, I can say that the war has just started, its fires have been kindled. That fire will reach the White House because it is the seat of all injustice and oppression and where they launched a war against Islam and Muslims without any legitimate reason....When the killing of the oppressed people increased in number we decided to withdraw from the land and start the phase of guerrilla war in the mountains so that the lives of people and the poor Mujahedeen may be spared,” he said.

Omar said those who carried out the attacks in the United States had a clear objective. “What is important for the US now is to find out why they did that. America should remove the cause that made them do it.”


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