Kabul - Fierce fighting continues in Kunduz, where the Mujahideen have repulsed the second of three-pronged offensive launched by the Northern Alliance on Thursday. The Alliance has taken heavy casualties and has retreated, meeting stiff resistance from the defenders of Kunduz, who have vowed to fight to the last drop of blood. Amongst the troops facing the Alliance in Kunduz are several thousand Foreign Mujahideen, from countries as diverse as the Arab World, Pakistan, China, Uzbekistan, Turkey, Bosnia and Indonesia, further underscoring the point that this is a war of Islam against Kufr. Heavy US bombing, including use of some chemical weapons, has failed to make a difference. The Northern Alliance has been trying to cover up their defeats with claims of surrender talks, but, in truth, they are making no progress in entering the city and have suffered heavy casualties. The morale of the Mujahideen in Kunduz is said to be extremely high and there is no panic, disorder or confusion in their ranks. They are prepared to fight until victory or martyrdom.

Near Maidan Shahr, 20km South West of Kabul, approximately 1000 Afghan and Foreign Mujahideen counter-attacked a major Northern Alliance offensive that was launched on Thursday, killing scores of them. Alliance troops fled in panic and disorder after this counter-attack from Mujahideen fighters dug in in the mountains.

These incidents are proving that the war is far from over and emphasise the point that the Taliban and the Mujahideen have the upper hand and experience in mountain and guerilla warfare. Those who thought that the Taliban were finished and the war is over are left finding answers to these recent setbacks to the Northern Alliance. Perhaps some duas of some Muslims in the month of Ramadan are being answered?

Meanwhile, anarchy continues in Afghanistan with three more foreign journalists killed near Jalalabad, bringing the total number of foreign journalists killed this week, to 10. UN offices have also been looted in Mazar-i-Sharif, Jalalabad and Kabul. It was exactly these state of affairs that led to the emergence of the Taliban in the first place, in 1994. 25 fighters of the American-backed Hamid Karzai were killed by Taliban troops in an attempted capture of Helmand province. Large quantities of both Russian and American weapons were captured by the Taliban during this encounter. American bombing continued in Kunduz, Kandahar and Jalalabad, killing over 50 civilians, bringing the total number of civilians killed since the bombing began on 7th October 2001, to pass the 2500 mark. This figure is increasing at the average rate of 200 civilians per week. On the contrary, the civilian death toll of the World Trade Center attacks has been decreased to less than 3900, after errors were discovered. The figure continues to decrease. Once the Afghan civilian death toll exceeds that of the World Trade Center, will Muslims around the World continue to go out of their way to condemn the 11 September attacks more than they condemn the bombing of Afghanistan.
Elsewhere, further showing the betrayal of Western Muslims to their Mujahideen in Afghanistan, a survey amongst British Muslims showed that two thirds believed those British Muslims who fought to defend Afghanistan against American bombing should be tried for treason when they return. A stance like this is not surprising coming from Western communities of Muslims that have done little for Islam and the Muslims in the arenas of Jihad around the World. British Muslim organisations were even hesitant to support the Jihad in Bosnia so it is expected that in this war against Islam, they will side with the West against their fellow Muslims. Are they not afraid of the Day when Allah will try them for treason for abandoning their Muslim brothers and siding with the West against Islam?

Lastly, to prove the lies created by the Western Media, British newspapers have been reporting Field Commander Khattab as leading the Mujahideen forces in Kunduz. Field Commander Khattab, who has not left Chechnya since 1995, except to attack Russian forces in Dagestan in 1997 and 1999, remains in Chechnya, engaged in the Jihad there. Furthermore, it begs the question? How did he travel from Chechnya to Kunduz in the first place? Was he supposed to have been teleported in a high-tech machine costing $500million, paid by Usama bin Ladin, of course? Perhaps British newspapers, upon whom many Muslims rely for 'authentic' news know the answers to that.

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