Taliban Accuses the United States of Genocide

03/05/2001| IslamWeb

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Accusing the United States of "genocide" the Taliban authorities in Afghanistan said Monday that U.S. aircraft had bombed a hospital in the western city of Herat, killing up to 100 people. (Photo-coutesy: Al-Jazeera TV Satellite Station)"It is now clear that America plans on intentionally targeting the Afghan people," Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, the Taliban's ambassador to Pakistan said Monday.
He said the dead in Herat included doctors, nurses as well as patients.
Eighteen others were killed when U.S. planes struck two clinics and shops in other parts of the country, "located far from military places," he added.
Speaking to reporters in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, Zaeef said the killing of civilians was a terrorist act on par with the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York.
"[The] Bush administration is annoying the souls of those killed in New York by killing innocent men, women and children in Afghanistan," he said.
"In attacking our country on mere suspicions, [the] CIA and FBI have escaped their failure to find the real culprit by putting the blame squarely on Afghanistan without any evidence."
The Pentagon said it would investigate the Taliban's claims.