Reuters
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:53 UTC
Video claims slaying 10 French troops, demands pullout from Afghanistan
The Taliban threatened to launch attacks in Paris unless France withdraws from Afghanistan, in a video aired by Al Arabiya television on Monday.
The video also claimed an ambush that killed 10 French troops in August was carried out by the Taliban. It was not clear when the recording was made.
"We have killed 10 French soldiers today as a message to the French so that they rectify their mistakes and withdraw from Afghanistan, and if they don't they will hear our response in Paris," said a Taliban commander identified as Mullah Farouq on the video, in remarks dubbed into Arabic by the station.
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Comment: The Taliban have not made such threats in the past, being concerned mainly with defending Afghanistan. It is highly likely therefore that this is a piece of French of American or Israeli propaganda designed to scare the French into supporting the troops and bolstering Sarkozy's fascistic policies and the NATO war effort in Afghanistan.
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Comment: The Taliban have not made such threats in the past, being concerned mainly with defending Afghanistan. It is highly likely therefore that this is a piece of French of American or Israeli propaganda designed to scare the French into supporting the troops and bolstering Sarkozy's fascistic policies and the NATO war effort in Afghanistan.