Thursday, May 3, 2007

Orange Juice Makes My Legs Ache

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writer is Mullah Omar.
I'm 44 years old, 4 wives, several children, have been in Kandahar, therefore, are not Arab they are Afghan. In my life I did a little ' of all: the fighter, the politician, the spiritual leader of the new fighter. I met the greatest armies in the world to fight the Red Army 20 years (I've literally put through the nose), now fighting the United States, the British and their NATO allies. Only, when he fought the Soviets, so you liked the Western: the weapons we hand it to you. Now, understandably, do not you like me more. Yet they are still the same. I know Bin Laden since the Soviet invasion, when he liked you a lot. But we have nothing in common: he is an Arab, a caliph full of Saudi petrodollars. We helped him against the Red Army and later gave us a lot of money for build roads, bridges, schools and hospitals. For this he was much loved by the Afghans, and when I walked into Kabul in 1996, I left him there. But in '98 he was accused of plotting attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and its presence in Afghanistan became a problem. One reason for Clinton in the crowd began to bomb in Khost area, thinking that he was there: instead killed hundreds of civilians. Between my Government and Clinton there was a deal, but yes, the documents of the Department of State, the Americans dealt with the Taliban. They had my number. I sent my right arm Wakij Ahmed in Washington, to meet Clinton twice: on November 28 and December 18 '98. Clinton Bin Laden wanted to kill him, or at least espellessimo. We could not deport him: he was too popolare.Offrimmo to provide the details of its hiding place, so that the U.S. could hit it without fail. As long as the stop assailing. Clinton inexplicably refused.
Then our relations worsened again, but not for the burka for women or for TV or destroyed the statues of Buddha ground: it was because I refused to entrust the construction of the mega gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan American Unocal. The Americans tied to the finger, also were hanged because nell'Unical Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice and the current Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Now pretend to fall away both for the opium, but in '98 and in '99 I proposed several times to America and the UN to stop poppy cultivation in exchange for our recognition. They said spades. In 2000, unilaterally froze the cultivation of poppy, amid protests by hundreds of thousands of peasants, but the Koran forbids produce and consume drugs, and for me the Qur'an is a serious matter. Result: the price of opium skyrocketed. Terrible damage to the large drug mafias worldwide. Be a coincidence, but less than a year after you have attacked. Now, Afghanistan "liberated" and "democratic", it produces more opium than before: we produce 87% of opium world.
After September 11, Americans have asked us again to hand over bin Laden. We asked for evidence of his involvement. Do not have the dates. We did not give Bin Laden. And they attacked us. Although there was only one Afghan commandos in the Twin Towers, or a single Afghan has ever been found in the cells of Al Qaeda were Saudis, Egyptians, Jordanians, Tunisians, Algerians, Moroccans, Yemenis. Non-Afghan nor Iraqi. Yet you have just invaded Iraq and Afghanistan. Have you ever thought of bombing Sicily to five years to dig out Provenzano? Yet that was a fugitive for 43 years, Bin Laden only a couple.
We are not a nation of terrorists. The first car bomb exploded in 2006 after five years of employment. A little 'because these 5 years have shaken our traditions and barbaric. A little 'because many terrorists come from abroad. A little 'because with the Russians, at least, we could make the war their troops were on the field. With the Americans it is impossible: we see them speeding on their B52 to 10 000 meters. A year ago, an American Predator, unmanned or crew bombed the Pakistani Domadola small village on the border with Afghanistan, and I think that Al Zawahiri were there. He killed 18 civilians, including 8 women and 5 children. No American, for the simple reason that the Americans were not there: the Predator was remote controlled from a base in Nevada, where the pilot directed operations via satellite. It 's the "asymmetric warfare", which is at no cost, at least for you. Not for our people.
Mind you, I do not want to make sure the Ambient. I am a fierce warrior and fanatical. But loyal. As long as I had control of the situation, we had no kidnappings, once a British journalist who entered our country disguised as a man, was treated well, and found that it was not a spy, released three days later without any payment. What about instead of your staff members who, in the free Milan have arrested an imam to send him to Egypt and tortured him?
say that we hold our women covered too. Maybe. But you exaggerate the other way: you may be a woman to go on TV, should get in a bathing suit, perhaps with the crucifix between her breasts? Do not have a more decent place to put the son of your God?
It 's true, I do not recognize the secular state and the separation between religion and politics. But you come and give lessons? I understand that you have many politicians taking orders from religious leaders, among other residents in a foreign state.
Now I have to say goodbye. But let me thank you for the service which, unwittingly, have made me and the Taliban in 2001, when we have driven out of Kabul, we were on the balls much of the afghani.Ora that Afghans will have known and have seen the work the so-called Democratic President Karzai, we have become very popular. So much so that I continue to turn a bicycle and sidecar. On my head there's a bounty of 50 million dollars, but nobody has ever thought of betraying to pocket. I leave you with a thought of your holy, you should know well, Augustine of Hippo. It 'taken from De Civitate Dei: "Once he was brought before Alexander the Great made a famous pirate prisoner. Alex asked, 'Why infest the seas with such boldness and freedom?'. The pirate replied: 'For the same reason you infest the ground; but since I do it with a small ship, I am called pirate as you do it with a great fleet are called Emperor '. " Ponder, Infidels, meditate.
Sincerely,
Mullah Omar

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