Reuters

Al-Qaeda: Tentera Amerika Akan Diseret Di Jalanraya

(Al Qaeda Says Will Drag U.S. Troops Through Streets)

Panglima tentera pasukan Al Qaeda telah memberitahu betapa pejuang Afghan akan menyeret setiap askar Amerika (yang dapat mereka tumpaskan), di jalanraya Afghan sebagai mengingati peristiwa kegagalan askar Amerida di Somalia pada 1993 dulu.

"Percaturan mereka melancarkan perang salib adalah satu kesilapan kerana mereka fikir dapat melancarkan perang terhadap Afghanistan, dan mencapai kemenangan dengan mudah," demikian laporan daripada Islamic Observation Centre yang berpusat di London memetik kata-kata Abu-Hafs al-Masri.

"Amerika hanya akan sedar kesilapan besar mereka itu setelah melihat askar mereka diseret di Afghanistan seperti yang berlaku di Somalia," demikian kata beliau seperti yang disauk oleh Reuters di Kahirah.

IOC yang mempunyai hubungan rapat dengan kumpulan pelampau Islam di beberapa negara, melaporkan mereka menerima komen itu daripada sumber di Kabul.

Pembantu Osama Laden itu merujuk kisah 18 askar Amerika dalam pasukan pengaman PBB yang telah dibunuh apabila pihak Somali menjatuhkan dua buah pesawat helikopter di Mogadishu pada 1993. Rakyat Somali yang marah telah mengheret askar itu di sepanjang jalan. Hanya selepas itu Washington menarik keluar askar mereka dari negara tanduk Afrika itu.

IOC mula mengeluarkan laporan secara tetap mengenai setiap peristiwa di Afghanistan selepas Amerika memimpin serangan mengganyang Osama Laden dan pemimpin Taliban pada 7 Oktober.

Dengan adanya pertanda Amerika menghantarkan askar tentera darat tidak lama lagi, Taliban telah mengumumkan dengan tegasnya bahawa Osama Laden tidak dapat dikesan lagi.

Namun, sumber di Afghanistan mengatakan Osama Laden dan penyokongnya berada dalam keadaan yang selamat.

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Al Qaeda Says Will Drag U.S. Troops Through Streets

CAIRO (Reuters) - The military chief of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network said Afghans would drag slain U.S. troops through the streets, rekindling memories of Washington's doomed 1993 involvement in Somalia, a report said on Thursday.

``The calculations of the crusade coalition were very mistaken when it thought it could wage a war on Afghanistan, achieving victory swiftly,'' the report by the London-based Islamic Observation Center quoted Abu Hafs al-Masri as saying.

``America will only be certain about its mistaken calculations after its soldiers are dragged in Afghanistan as they were in Somalia,'' he was quoted as saying in the report, which was obtained by Reuters in Cairo.

The Islamic Observation Center, which has close ties to Muslim extremists in several countries, said it received Abu Hafs' comments from its contacts in Kabul.

Bin Laden's aide was referring to 18 U.S. troops, part of a U.N. peacekeeping force, who were killed when militiamen downed two helicopters in Mogadishu in 1993. Mobs dragged the bodies of some of the soldiers through streets. Washington then withdrew its troops from the Horn of Africa country.

The whereabouts of Abu Hafs, the nom de guerre of Egyptian radical Mohamed Atef who is reportedly number two in al Qaeda, are unknown.

The London-based Islamic Observation Center started issuing the regular report on events in Afghanistan after the start of U.S.-led attacks against bin Laden and his hosts, the ruling Taliban, on October 7.

With U.S. military maneuvers pointing to a decision soon to send in ground forces for sharp strikes, the Taliban have insisted that their guest bin Laden, blamed for attacks on New York and Washington last month, would not be found.