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Afghan Militants 'Plan UK Attacks'

Tue, October 24, 2006

Source: Ananova

Afghan militants are for the first time plotting to attack westerners in Britain and the rest of Europe, a Taliban commander has claimed.

Afghan militants are for the first time plotting to attack westerners in Britain and the rest of Europe, a Taliban commander has claimed.

Mullah Mohammed Amin, a former official in the Taliban government, has said militants have stockpiles of weapons and would never give up exacting revenge from "the foreign invaders."

In an exclusive interview with Sky News, he confirmed that Taliban fighters are taking refuge within neighbouring Pakistan and are being helped by locals sympathetic to their cause.

Amin, an official in the Taliban government at the time of the US-led coalition invasion in 2001, said the resurgent Taliban was inspired by tactics used by militants in Iraq, and wants to export terror to the West.

Ananova