A Diplomat Says to TEHRAN TIMES Taleban Train Chinese Wahhabis-NEWS & VIEWS

December 14, 1998 - 0:0
TEHRAN Those who are against cross border terrorism should do everything to stop the Taleban who, in the name of Wahhabism, are going to make the entire region insecure by giving military training to terrorists, which will definitely entail the loss lives of innocent people. A diplomat talking to the TEHRAN TIMES said the Taleban have set up a military training camp in the mountainous areas of Afghanistan to train Wahhabis from Central Asian republics and the Xinxiang region in China. Wahhabis are the followers of Abd Al-Wahhab, who lived in Saudi Arabia from 1703-1792. A diplomat well-versed on Afghan affairs told the TEHRAN TIMES, The training camp has been set up with the help of Osama bin Laden, the Saudi dissident billionaire.

There are some 130 trainees from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan and 70 from Xinxiang of China in the camp. Besides guerilla warfare and special operations, the trainees receive education based on Wahhabism from the Taleban, the sources said. Taleban have a wide-ranging plan to create tension and disorder in the region through dispatching terrorists to different parts of the region. The reactionary Taleban are against all forms of civilization, culture and also other religions.

When they seized Mazar-i-Sharif, they massacred innocent people simply because they had different religious or political views different from what Taleban sponsor. Bamiyan was the main target of Taleban's brutality, where they massacred the Shia community. In many cases, Taleban killed the entire family including infants. It is the responsibility of all who want peace and stability in the region to stop the Taleban's inhuman acts.