NEFA Exclusive: Interview with Pakistani Taliban Commander Maulvi Faqir Mohammad (June 17, 2008)
The NEFA Foundation has obtained an exclusive video-recorded interview with Maulvi Faqir Mohammad, a senior commander of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and an acknowledged deputy of notorious Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud. When asked during the interview whether the TTP would host Usama Bin Laden and fugitive Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar as guests in northwestern Pakistan, Faqir responded, "Throughout the world, a war is being fought under the leadership of Sheikh Usama and Amir al-Mumineen Mullah Mohammad Omar. The war against America and its allies has being going on under the leadership of these two personalities. We have stated that if we were given the honor of hosting these guests, it would be a great privilege for us… We consider them as our leaders. They are Muslim heroes. The activities of both these leaders are against the U.S. and its allies." Faqir also boasted of having personally met with both Usama Bin Laden and Mullah Omar inside Afghanistan, and confirmed that the TTP has been providing logistical support for foreign nationals traveling through Pakistan to the jihad in Afghanistan: "Traditionally, we do cooperate fully with our guests. The tribals are providing assistance and hospitality to all those guests who are fighting against America."
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NEFA Exclusive: Interview with Taliban Spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid (February
1, 2008)
On January 25, 2008, NEFA Foundation Investigator Claudio Franco
conducted a telephone interview with Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid.
During the interview, Mujahid discussed the recent suicide bombing of the
Serena hotel in Kabul, noting that the attack was an attempt at targeting
the Norwegian Foreign Minister. The Taliban spokesman again denied any role
in recent turmoil in neighboring Pakistan, insisting, “our activities are
inside Afghanistan. This election is an internal matter for Pakistan… we do
not care who gets power.”
(Click to view
English-language text transcript).
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NEFA Exclusive: Interview with Taliban Spokesman Zahidullah Mujahid (January 22, 2008)
On January 4, 2008, NEFA Foundation Investigator Claudio Franco
conducted a telephone interview with Taliban spokesman Zahidullah Mujahid. During the interview, Mujahid strongly denied any suggestion that Taliban elements in either Pakistan or Afghanistan were behind the recent assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. The Taliban spokesman also denied that two European diplomats expelled from Afghanistan in late December were involved in any negotiations with Taliban officials.
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English-language text transcript).
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NBC News Airs NEFA Terror Training Camp Video from
Afghanistan (September 11, 2007)
NEFA Investigator Claudio Franco was interviewed during an NBC
Nightly News segment by Senior Investigative Correspondent Lisa
Myers about his trip to observe an underground Taliban training camp
operating north of the Afghan capital Kabul. Asked if they
would be ready to strike as "martyrdom volunteers" on targets in
Western countries, the men responded, "Allah willing, we will, once
we have defeated the infidels. if we are still alive, we will go to
other countries and push the infidels out from other Islamic
countries." They also acknowledged that "there are mujahideen coming
to us from various countries to carry out martyrdom missions... They
are coming from Islamic countries, even from Europe, America,
(Australia) and from all over the world, to train and, yes, also for
suicide attacks."
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Interview with Mullah Dadullah, former military
commander of the Taliban (May 10, 2007)
Thirty-six hours before he was
killed by U.S. forces, Taliban Commander Mullah Dadullah said he was
training American and British citizens to carry out suicide missions in
their home countries, according to a videotaped interview obtained by the
NEFA Foundation
and broadcast on ABC News' "World News." "We will be
executing attacks in Britain and the U.S. to demonstrate our sincerity," he
told an Afghan interviewer, "to destroy their cities as they have destroyed
our cities."
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Interview with Mullah Dadullah, former military
commander of the Taliban (April 8, 2007)
In a new interview recorded on April 8 and obtained exclusively by the NEFA
Foundation, Taliban military commander Mullah Dadullah boasted that "Muslims
from Britain, America, and other countries" are currently attending
terrorist training camps inside Afghanistan. According to Dadullah,
"It is no secret that we have people from Britain, the U.S., Chechnya, and
Turkey... Among these men, there are suicide bombers who desire to return
home to their countries of origin and carry out suicide attacks."
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Video of Protest by Islamic Militants Outside the
Israeli Embassy in New York (April 2006)
On April 17, 2006, a Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) suicide bomber
killed nine Israelis in an attack on a restaurant in Tel Aviv. Three
days later--thanks to ongoing surveillance of extremist
communication networks--NEFA investigators were on hand to videotape
a rally held outside the Israeli consulate in midtown Manhattan by
the so-called "Islamic Thinkers Society" in order to demonstrate
their support for anti-Israeli suicide bombings. The Islamic
Thinkers Society is a faction of the U.K.-based extremist movement
formerly known as Al-Muhajiroun. In 2003, a British member of Al-Muhajiroun
carried out a suicide bomb attack at a British-themed restaurant in
Tel Aviv, killing three bystanders.
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Video of Protest by Islamic Militants Outside the
Danish Embassy in London (Feb. 2006)
The January 2006 republication of cartoons from Denmark lampooning
the Prophet Mohammed has caused a growing wave of bitter anger and
violence to spread throughout the Muslim world--and likewise among
well-organized groups of extremists living in Western nations. On
February 3, a U.K.-based militant faction formerly known as "Al-Muhajiroun"
("The Emigrants") helped organize a raucous demonstration outside
the Danish, Norwegian, and French embassies in central London. Video
excerpts from the demonstration are now available for download c/o
the NEFA Foundation website.
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