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Mullah Omar accuses US of atrocities against Muslims

An agency report quoting Afghan Islamic Press on Tuesday said Taleban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar accused the United States of committing 'atrocities' against the Muslim world.

The report said that Omar in a message to the American people said, "The American people must know that the sad events that took place recently were the result of the their government's wrong policies."

He reportedly added that the September 11 terrorist attacks were meant as revenge.

In the message delivered Omar purportedly again defended alleged terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden and called on the people of the United States to consider their government's 'cruel policies'.

"Your government is perpetrating all sorts of atrocities in Muslim countries. Instead of supporting your government's policies you should urge your government to reconsider their wrong and cruel policies," he said.

"The recent sad event in America was the result of these cruel policies and was meant to avenge this cruelty," he said, without claiming to know who was responsible.

Omar reiterated that bin Laden, the Saudi-born dissident who has been living under Taliban protection in Afghanistan since 1996, was incapable of planning the sort of sophisticated suicide hijackings which levelled the World Trade Centre and part of the Pentagon two weeks ago.

"You must think of where the attack took place and who was behind it, but Afghanistan is being made the target and preparations are being made to attack Afghanistan," he said.

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