- QUETTA, Pakistan (AFP) --
Four wanted Taliban leaders have warned US troops to quit Afghanistan or
face the wrath of the Afghan people.
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- In a signed pamphlet distributed in the border areas
of Pakistan and Afghanistan, they also urged Afghan troops to stop backing
the "infidel" US force in their country.
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- The pamphlet carried the signatures of four of the most
wanted Taliban leaders: Mulla Akhtar Usman, Mullah Bradar, Mulla Abdur
Rauf and Hafiz Adur Rahim.
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- "We are determined that the Afghan masses will never
accept foreign law and oppression and the US rule will remain only on paper,"
the pamphlet written in the local Pashto language said.
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- "We advise US forces to leave Afghanistan immediately
as the Afghan people cannot be purchased with dollars."
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- The leaflets, secretly distributed in the southern Afghan
town of Spin Boldak and seen in the neighbouring Pakistani town of Chaman
in south-western Baluchistan province, also had a warning for Afghans cooperating
with US forces.
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- "Taliban mujahideen will kill them one by one, along
with their American masters and will inflict a humiliating defeat that
will be recorded in history."
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- The four leaders were senior commanders in the Taliban
regime which was ousted in a US-led military campaign in late 2001. US
forces attacked the regime for sheltering Osama bin Laden's terror network
al-Qaeda, blamed for the September 11 2001 attacks in Washington and New
York.
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- They are wanted by US and Afghan forces who come under
regular attack from Taliban and al-Qaeda remnants in Afghanistan's southern
and eastern border districts.
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- Copyright 2003 News Limited.
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