Spokesman for Taliban in Afghanistan:'If the Crusaders Want... Afghanistan's Dogs to Gorge on Their Flesh, They Should Continue to Occupy Afghanistan'

In a interview with a jihadist monthly magazine, Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan spokesman Qari Muhammad Yousuf said that Allah was protecting the Muslims, and that none of the Americans' tricks or strategy shifts would avail them. He added that the Taliban controls the vast majority of Afghanistan, and that, unlike in Iraq with the Sahwa forces, the Americans would not succeed in recruiting Afghan tribes against the mujahideen. Asked about the U.S.'s demand that the Taliban renounce Al-Qaeda, Yousuf said that the Taliban's bond with the "immigrant mujahideen" in Afghanistan (i.e., the non-Afghan Muslims who come to fight there) and with the Pakistan Taliban is anchored in their common faith and ideology. ...