LONDON: Taliban has requested religious groups in Pakistan to send in at least
500,000 volunteers even as the US launched ground attacks inside Afghanistan
this weekend, media reports said on Sunday.
The demand for volunteers will go up. "Every second day, some 500 to
1,000 people are crossing the border to join the Taliban," a Sunday Times
reported quoted a cleric in Karachi as saying.
Two British Muslim volunteers will take up arms this week against American and
British forces fighting the Taliban.
Abdul Halim, 24, a Bangladeshi from Whitechapel in East London, is already a
trained fighter. He spent four months in the war-torn country last year with
Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.
"When I was on the front line, there were Arabs, Pakistanis, Indonesians
and Uzbeks," Halim said. "There was danger. The Northern Alliance
are fine marksmen and one once shot me out of a tree."
According to the report, Halim described how he had been trained in sabotage
techniques and hand-to-hand combat by Bangladeshis attached to the al-Qaeda
network. He learnt, in particular, how to use mercury switches, a key
component of terror bombs, but had never been asked to plant one.
The second volunteer, who called himself Abdullah, 21, is a telecommunications
engineer from Ilford. With his face hidden by a headscarf, he said Bin Laden
was an "inspiration" and justified fighting the American and British
forces.
"I would consider myself a hypocrite if I lived in Britain while it was
waging war against Afghanistan without doing anything about it," he said.
( PTI )
Taliban Meminta 500,000 Sukarelawan Daripada Pakistan.
LONDON: Taliban telah meminta beberapa kumpulan agama di Pakistan menghantar sekurang-kurangnya 500,000 sukarelawan, walau pun AS melancarkan serangan darat di Afghanistan pada awal minggu.
Permintaan untuk mendapatkan sukarelawan itu akan meningkat. “Setiap selang hari, sekitar 500 hingga 1,000 manusia menyeberang sempadan untuk menyertai Taliban,” demikian laporan Sunday Times menyebut kenyataan seorang pemimpin agama di Karachi.
Dua sukarelawan British akan memikul senjata minggu ini menentang tentera Amerika dan British memerangi Taliban
Abdul Halim, 24, seorang warga Bangladeshi daripada Whitechapel di East London, memang sudah terlatih sebagai seorang pejuang. Dia pernah mengikuti latihan selama empat bulan tahun lalu di bawah kelolaan Osama Laden dan Al-Qa'eda.
Ketika saya ada di benteng pertahanan, terdapat orang Arab, Pakistan, Indonesia dan Uzbek,” kata Halim.”Memang banyak bahayanya. Askar Pakatan Utara memang pintar menembak. Pernah saya ditembak oleh pakar tembak mereka yang menyorok di atas pokok.”
Mengikut laporan itu, Halim telah menceritakan bagaimana dia menjalani latihan dalam ilmu teknik mensabotaj dan pertarungan satu lawan satu oleh pelatih Bangladeshi di kem Al-Qa'eda. Yang khusus dipelajarinya ialah cara menggunakan ‘mecury-switches’ yang merupakan alat penting dalam ledakan bom. Tetapi dia belum pun disuruh memasangnya.
Sukarelawan kedua ialah bernama Abdullah, 21 tahun yang merupakan seorang jurutera telekomunikasi daripada Ilford. Wajahnya tertutup rapat oleh penudung kepala. Dia berkata betapa Osama Laden menjadi inspirasi perjuangannya untuk menentang tentera British dan Amerika.
“Saya akan menganggap diri saya seorang hipokrit seandainya saya tinggal di Britain sedangkan ia mengisytiharkan perang terhadap Afghanistan tanpa saya membuat sesuatu mengenainya,” kata Abdullah.
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