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Americans full of hot air: Taleban

A defiant Taleban militia thumbing its nose at the US said, "The Americans are full of hot air. Let them claim air supremacy. We are grounded in reality. No one has ever won a ground war in Afghanistan."

Taleban's gung-ho stand, put forward in a press conference in Islamabad, echoed the sentiments of many in their southern stronghold of Kandahar, even as American fighter jets continued to pound the city and other southern Afghan provinces.

Meanwhile, Afghan government source maintained that 28 civilians had been killed in or around Kandahar, even as they insisted that their air defences were intact.

The Taleban also claim both Saudi born dissident Osama bin Laden and their supreme spiritual leader Mullah Mohammed Omar had survived four days of air strikes.

Meanwhile, Taleban Foreign Minister Mullah Muttawakil Wakil, in a letter to the Organisation of Islamic Conference, currently meeting in Doha, urged Muslim countries to convene an emergency meeting to discuss the US attacks on his country.

Taliban officials also denied the exodus of their fighters. Pakistani troops are reported to have been fending off Taleban fighters apparently seeking to flee the bombing campaign.

"We are committed to our cause, this is just propaganda," claimed a Taleban official.

Indo-Asian News Service

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