Reuters; Ananova. 22 October 2001. Taliban say U.S.-led forces using chemical weapons; Bush assassination order is terrorism say Taliban.
KABUL -- U.S.-led forces, now in their third week of attacks against Afghanistan, have been using chemical and biological weapons, a spokesman for the hardline ruling Taliban said on Monday. "Today in my contact with doctors in Herat and Kandahar, they told me that they have found signs that Americans are using biological and chemical weapons in their attacks," Taliban information ministry spokesman Abdul Hanan Himat told Reuters. "The affects are transparent on the wounded; a state of poisonousness is one of them," he said. The accusation could not be independently confirmed. Himat added that overnight attacks on Tarin Kot, capital of Uruzgan province, located north of Kandahar, killed 18 civilians and wounded a further 25 to 35. Also: the Taliban are describing George W Bush's reported instructions to the CIA to eliminate Osama bin Laden as an act of terrorism. They say the US has repeatedly refused to provide evidence against Bin Laden to the Taliban courts. "It is an act of terrorism on the part of President Bush to issue death orders for a person against whom he has failed to produce even a shred of evidence," Suhail Shaheen, Taliban deputy ambassador to Pakistan told Urdu language newspaper Inquilab. "The US president is himself indulging in another terrorist act. What we are seeing now is an attempt to trample international laws of justice. Only Allah has the power over life and death." The envoy also claimed 1,000 civilians had been killed in the bombing so far and alleged US planes were pounding civilian targets with bunker buster bombs. He said: "The Americans are desperate and bomb populated areas and cities with an aim to force the people to migrate to other countries and give the impression to the world that people are not happy with Taliban. "Both Osama bin laden and Mullah Mohammed Omar are safe despite the massive attacks." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews with continuing coverage of WWIII _______________________________________________ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
