Taliban averts American attacks with American 'weapons'
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al-Qaeda still maintains enigmatic silence on the whereabouts of its top leaders
Taliban averts attacks with U.S. equipment, said the Washington Times on Monday even as a report from Dubai said al- Qaeda would use Pakistani nuclear weapons against the Americans.
‘God willing, the nuclear weapons ( of Pakistan) will not fall into the hands of the Americans and the mujahideen would take them and use them against the Americans’, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, the leader of al-Qaeda’s in Afghanistan, said in an interview with Al Jazeera television.
Also known as Abu Saeed al-Masri, the Egyptian said al Qaeda will continue ‘with large scale operations against the enemy (America)’. On the Swat operations of Pak army, he said, ‘We expect that the Pakistani army would be defeated (in Swat) ... and that would be its end everywhere, God willing’.
The Washington Times dispatch said some Taliban fighters have been able to ward off attacks by U.S. aircraft by wearing special infrared patches on their shirts that signal that they are friends rather than foes.
The patches, which can also help suicide bombers get close to U.S. targets, are supposed to be the property of the U.S. government alone, but can be easily purchased over the Internet for about $10 each. Also available online: night-vision goggles and military-grade communications systems like the ones used by the terrorists who attacked the Indian city of Mumbai last year.
Some of the patches have been stolen during raids on U.S. resupply convoys in Afghanistan and Pakistan. But they can also be purchased in the United States and sent overseas with little detection, the Washington Times said. This claim is corroborated by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) whose investigators had bought patches using fake names and a front company with only a valid credit card.
Al Qaeda still maintains an enigmatic silence on the whereabouts of its top leaders. Mustafa Abu al-Yazid told Al Jazeera TV ‘Praise God, sheikh Osama (bin Laden) and sheikh Ayman al-Zawahri are safe from the reach of the enemies, but we would not say where they are; moreover, we do not know where they are, but we're in continuous contact with them’.
But Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has reported that the reclusive Taliban leader Mullah Omar has begun to re-assert direct control of the outfit. The one-eyed Mullah heads the 'Quetta Shura' (the Taliban war council named after the place in Pakistan where it was set up). He has shuffled field commanders in Afghanistan and ordered a spate of new attacks as his group faces an offensive from the US troops and Pakistani military in Waziristan. This is in contrast to his focus since the fall of Kabul in 2001 on choosing Taliban commanders and funneling money to them, religious guidance and strategy advice to fighters.
‘God willing, the nuclear weapons ( of Pakistan) will not fall into the hands of the Americans and the mujahideen would take them and use them against the Americans’, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, the leader of al-Qaeda’s in Afghanistan, said in an interview with Al Jazeera television.
Also known as Abu Saeed al-Masri, the Egyptian said al Qaeda will continue ‘with large scale operations against the enemy (America)’. On the Swat operations of Pak army, he said, ‘We expect that the Pakistani army would be defeated (in Swat) ... and that would be its end everywhere, God willing’.
The Washington Times dispatch said some Taliban fighters have been able to ward off attacks by U.S. aircraft by wearing special infrared patches on their shirts that signal that they are friends rather than foes.
The patches, which can also help suicide bombers get close to U.S. targets, are supposed to be the property of the U.S. government alone, but can be easily purchased over the Internet for about $10 each. Also available online: night-vision goggles and military-grade communications systems like the ones used by the terrorists who attacked the Indian city of Mumbai last year.
Some of the patches have been stolen during raids on U.S. resupply convoys in Afghanistan and Pakistan. But they can also be purchased in the United States and sent overseas with little detection, the Washington Times said. This claim is corroborated by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) whose investigators had bought patches using fake names and a front company with only a valid credit card.
Al Qaeda still maintains an enigmatic silence on the whereabouts of its top leaders. Mustafa Abu al-Yazid told Al Jazeera TV ‘Praise God, sheikh Osama (bin Laden) and sheikh Ayman al-Zawahri are safe from the reach of the enemies, but we would not say where they are; moreover, we do not know where they are, but we're in continuous contact with them’.
But Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has reported that the reclusive Taliban leader Mullah Omar has begun to re-assert direct control of the outfit. The one-eyed Mullah heads the 'Quetta Shura' (the Taliban war council named after the place in Pakistan where it was set up). He has shuffled field commanders in Afghanistan and ordered a spate of new attacks as his group faces an offensive from the US troops and Pakistani military in Waziristan. This is in contrast to his focus since the fall of Kabul in 2001 on choosing Taliban commanders and funneling money to them, religious guidance and strategy advice to fighters.
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