LONDON (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Afghan guerrillas fighting the ruling Taliban movement pledged on Sunday to support any U.S. strike against camps run by Osama bin Laden.``We want the destruction of the terrorist camps, as well as the Taliban establishment, which have provided the facilities for the terrorist activities in Afghanistan,'' Abdullah Abdullah, a senior figure in the opposition Northern Alliance, told CNN. (Read photo caption below)
``If the United States is about to show a reaction against terrorists and their collaborators, they should consult us and see... how much effective our support and our cooperation would be,'' he said in an interview.
The Northern Alliance has fought a rearguard action against the Taliban since the hardline Islamic movement took Kabul in 1996, but now holds only a sliver of territory in the northeast.
Abdullah, said any strategy to tackle bin Laden's Taliban protectors should start with Pakistan, which he accused of arming and supporting them.
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Afghan guerrillas fighting the ruling Taliban movement pledged on September 16, 2001 to support any U.S. strike against camps run by Osama bin Laden, Washington's chief suspect in last week's terror attacks in the United States. The alliance's former military leader Ahmad Shah Masood, who had obstructed the Taliban's drive to control all Afghanistan, was buried on September 16, 2001, the day after his death from wounds inflicted by a suicide bomber on September 9. This photo shows soldiers of the Northern Alliance near the village of Saricha Ahmad Shah Masood's funeral. (Alexander Nemenov/Pool via Reuters)