Taliban ruler Mullah Omar has been making videos too

I wonder why we don't get to see these on cable news? We just get to see the ones that seem to help Bush and his minions. Something is fishy here.

Don

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HJ12Df02.html

Taliban viewed in a new light
By Jason Motlagh

KABUL - The same Taliban that banned television while in power in Afghanistan from 1996-2001 now have a presence on about 30% of more than 4,000 jihadist websites and radio stations, capitalizing on the vulnerability of poor Afghans fed up with a weak central government that has failed to deliver security and basic services.

Anti-government leaflets and pictures are in distribution in the south of the country. And the movement has the added advantage of being able to speak in the local Pashtun language while manipulating the flow and content of information in areas composed of largely illiterate farmers prone to intimidation, according to security experts.

Videos of Iraqi beheadings are in circulation, an about-face from the old Taliban, which viewed such technologies to be against Islam. Last year, a man from Khost province appeared in the first-ever video testimony of an Afghan suicide bomber before he blew himself up at a Kabul military training center, killing 13 people.

Even elusive Taliban chief Mullah Omar is featured in one video recording, apparently surveying insurgent forces and inspecting mortar equipment at the front line of a battleground.

Taliban militants have also set up fake checkpoints on critical roadways such as the Kabul-Kandahar highway, killing Afghans they accuse of collaborating with the state or international forces.

Sorry, couldn't resist :spank: