267:"Who is this Taliban commander Hayatullah Khan who made this claim? I have never heard his name and probably you also don't know him," said the president in an interview with Pajhwok Afghan New at his sprawling Gul Khana or Presidential Palace. The previously unknown Hayatullah Khan, claiming to be a Taliban commander, announced recently that 10,000 fighters were ready to take part in the "spring offensive" against the foreign forces in Afghanistan.
453:"We have sent hundreds of new and fresh Taliban suicide bombers to Afghan cities for attacks on occupying foreign troops and their Afghan slaves," Mullah Hayatullah Khan told Reuters by satellite telephone from an unknown location. "These Taliban suicide bombers were sent from Taliban camps to Afghan cities, including cities in the north of Afghanistan to find good targets," he said.
299:"We have made 80 per cent preparations to fight American and foreign forces and we are about to start war," Mullah Hayatullah Khan, a 35-year-old black-bearded guerrilla leader, told Reuters at a secret base in the east. Khan says the 2,000 are just 40 per cent of fighters preparing to become suicide bombers, a tactic almost unheard of here until last year as militants copied Iraq.
486:"Taliban will continue their guerrilla war and suicide and bomb attacks in Afghanistan," said Hayatullah Khan by telephone from an undisclosed location. "The increase of U.S. forces by Obama will provide us fresh and easy targets. Mujahideen are preparing, and as soon as winter goes, an intensity will be seen in our attacks in Afghanistan," Khan said.
359:"Taliban mujahideen, through unity in their ranks, should continue and increase their guerrilla and suicide attacks on occupation forces and the infidels will soon run away," Khan quoted Omar as saying. "Mulla Omar has ordered us to liberate our country, (and) we should step up attacks on occupation forces and their puppet Afghans," he said.
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