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Thousands join Taliban's new jihad in Afghanistan

PTI
The Free Press Journal
Wednesday, September 10, 2003

London - Almost two years after they were defeated, the
Taliban leadership is recruiting thousands of extremists
popularly called "Sarbaz" - those who care nothing for
their own lives - to fight the government of Mohd Karzai
and the US-led forces in Afghanistan, reports here said,
reports PTI.

The Taliban were supposedly vanquished in December 2001ss
when American and Northern Alliances forces drove them
from power, are reviving and fighting back across
southern Afghanistan. According to the report from
Kandahar region of Afghanistan, students from religious
seminaries across the border in the Pakistani province of
Baluchistan have joined the war within Afghanistan, and
are ready to take part in suicide missions, the report in
?The Telegraph said. The scarcity of reconstruction work
in Afghanistan's southern regions, where people lack
healthcare, education or even wells for drinking water,
has boosted the Taliban's recruitment drive, the report
said.

While hundreds have already joined the fight, Taliban
leaders claim that many more religious students from
Pakistan are ready to go.

Hundreds of tribesmen were acting as the eyes and ears
for the movement, supplying information on the movement
of government forces. Some of the volunteer children
were as young as 12. Quoting Mohammed Amin, 10-year old
leader of a Taliban fighters had managed to join the
Afghan government army, where they acted as spies and
saboteurs. 'They either confide to us information about
the planned movement of Afghan-US troops, or they attack
these troops and kill them Amin said.

In the past 15 days alone about 150 people including
Afghan troops, policemen and civilians have been killed
in southern Afghanistan. The most significant attack
came when 400 Taliban militia reportedly captured one of
the districts of Zabul province for a few hours, killing
29 government soldiers and even hoisting a Taliban flag,
the report said. They used loudspeakers of mosques to
warn residents not to co-operate with United States'
forces or the government. Members of the Taliban said
that their renewed campaign follows a reorganisation
carried out by three regional commanders earlier this
year, on the orders of the movement's one-eyed spiritual
leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, who along with Osama bin
Laden, remains at large. Responding to the call, Mullah
Dadullah Kakar, a one-legged veteran of the war against
the Russians, and Maulvi Sadiq Hameed travelled to the
Madrassas or religious schools, in Baluchistan, to
recruit students, the report said.

The third Taliban commander, Hafiz Majeed, garnered
support from the tribal chieftains and elders in southern
Afghanistan.

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