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Subject: SNET: Chinese actually fighting for Taliban, some killed
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China assisting us in war against US: Taliban commander
K J M Varma
(Islamabad, October 22)
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http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/221001/dlame81.asp
US ATTACKED
Tuesday, Sep 11
Taliban Commander-in-Chief Jalaluddin Haqqani has claimed that the militia
was "in touch" with China, which was assisting them in the war against US.
Before leaving for Afghanistan after holding talks with Pakistani officials
here, Haqqani, who is also the Minister for Frontier Regions, told reporters
"China is still assisting Taliban in the war against the United States".
He also said the Afghan militia "continued to be in touch with Beijing".
He, however, declined to divulge the nature and quantum of the assistance
being provided by China.
Haqqani, whose visit to Islamabad raised eyebrows, said China would react
sharply in the longer run as the US would dig in Afghanistan.
Besides the Pakistan officials, he also met the leaders of the hardline
pro-Taliban Pakistani religious leaders.
Haqqani said China was an important neighbour to Afghanistan and has
followed moderate policy towards Taliban all along.
"It has never interfered in the internal affairs of Afghanistan and Taliban
hold it in high esteem for this," he said.
Haqqani said the United States has not scored any noteworthy success in its
three weeks of bombardment in Afghanistan.
"So far Taliban have lost around 25 fighters. Also a military helicopter and
two passenger planes of Aryana air lines have received minor damage in the
US attacks," he added. (PTI)
FROM DEBKA INTELLIGENCE FILES
Chinese fighters killed in U.S. strikes
At least 15 dead found fighting on side of Taliban
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http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25026
© 2001 WorldNetDaily.com
Military sources in Dushanbe and Bishbek, capitals of Tajikistan and
Kyrgizstan respectively, report at least 15 Chinese fighting men on the side
of the Taliban, were killed in last week’s U.S. bombing over Kahandar and in
a separate incident on the ground, according to the DEBKA intelligence news
service.
This report was confirmed, reports DEBKA, by Pakistani sources in Peshawar,
who discovered the Chinese presence alongside the Taliban from their own
intelligence reports on the death of the commander of Arab Afghan troops in
Jalalabad. That commander was Basir al Masri, a senior aide to Osama bin
Laden and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad chief, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Al Masri appears to have been caught by an American bombardment, just as he
was leaving Kahandar for Jalalabad after meeting Taliban leaders. Those
leaders warned him as he left that U.S. Special Forces units were operating
in the southern and western outskirts of the town. Because they thought the
size of his bodyguard insufficient, they offered a detail of their own men
to see him safely past the danger zone. Among that armed escort were five
Chinese fighters. A Special Forces unit waylaid the group and detonated
explosive charges, one of which hit Abu Basir’s vehicle and a second the
escort vehicles. Most of the escort was killed, including three of the
Chinese guards. The next day, their bodies were carried into Kandahar.
Another 10 Chinese fighters were killed in U.S. bombardments, DEBKA reports.
The intelligence service reports its sources have no doubt that the Chinese
combatants fought in a Taliban unit – and were not part of Osama bin Laden’s
Al Qaeda or its associated Egyptian Jihad forces in Afghanistan. Neither
organization admits non-Arab adherents – certainly not as guards for its
senior officers.
The Chinese-bin Laden relationship goes back some years. The British daily,
Guardian, carried a report Saturday by John Hooper in Milan, claiming that
three years ago, China paid bin Laden several million dollars for unexploded
American cruise missiles left over from the U.S. attack on his bases. Hooper
quotes an alleged senior Al Qaida agent in Europe, whose account is
contained in the transcript of a secretly taped conversation between two bin
Laden adherents.
The Americans fired 75 missiles in the raid on bin Laden’s bases in
Afghanistan, carried out Aug. 20, 1998, in reprisal for the terrorist
strikes against U.S. embassies in East Africa. Forty were found unexploded.
The conversation taped took place in Milan between a Libyan called Ben
Heni -- who was arrested in Munich last week and accused by the Italian
prosecution of being the liaison officer between two Al Qaida cells in
Frankfurt and Milan – and a leader of the Italian cells, Sami Ben Khemmais
Essid. The Italian police had bugged the flat.
According to the Guardian report, the two men confirmed bin Laden’s close
ties with China and described how the huge sums the Chinese paid for the
unexploded U.S. missiles helped him finance his next three years of Al Qaida
operations.
In addition, the Washington Post reported Sept. 13 that Beijing signed a
memorandum of understanding with the Taliban for greater economic and
technical cooperation -- the last of a series of Chinese agreements with
Afghanistan in the last two years. The Post characterized China's
relationship with the Taliban as the closest of any non-Muslim country.
The memorandum of understanding was, ironically, signed Sept. 11.
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