Monday, February 14, 2011

Taliban says Afghanistan next to overthrow 'US atrocities'-AFP

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2/14/11, "Afghan government next to fall: Taliban," AFP

"The Taliban says the US-backed Afghan government is next in line to get toppled by its people after the collapse of Hosni Mubarak's regime in Egypt, US-based monitors say.

Mubarak's ouster on Friday after three decades in power demonstrates that "many weapons and soldiers and much foreign assistance cannot keep a regime in power and that they cannot always hinder the caravan of 'hope and demands' of a nation", the Taliban said on

  • its website on Sunday, according to SITE Intelligence Group.

The Pashto-language statement said the Afghan people would rise up and overthrow the Kabul government due to its corruption and the

  • "atrocities" committed by the United States

in the country during a nearly decade-old military campaign.

The United States will eventually turn against Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government just as it did against Mubarak in Egypt,

  • it continued.

The group also also urged Egyptians to form an Islamic government and to "foil the plots of the foreign enemies", according to SITE."


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