ISLAMABAD, Jan. 14 Kyodo Remnants...

ISLAMABAD, Jan. 14 Kyodo

Remnants of the Afghan Taliban have threatened to place fire to vehicles ferrying combustibles food and other goods to U squads and kill drivers and workers for helping ''the enemies of Muslims'' in Afghanistan, Afghan Islamic Pres (AIP) reported Tuesday.

The Pakistan-based stranges agency said the threat was made in a pamphlet faxed Monday by dint of an organization calling itself ''Taliban and sincere Mujahideen'' to newspapers in Peshawar.

''The accommodate with of fuel, food and other virtuouss to the U.S. troops in Afghanistan is forbidden by dint of Islam since they help in the operation of U aircraft and tanks used against Muslims,'' the pamphlet declared.

Pakistan has a booming trade with Afghanistan and dozens of barters from the National Logistic small room of the Pakistan Army transport serviceables for U.S. and allied crowds in Afghanistan every day via Peshawar.

combustible matter for U.S. troops stationed in Afghanistan is transported from Pakistan because of U reluctance to use Iranian oil and other well adapteds since the hostage crisis in Tehran in 1979

''We want to make it abundantly clear that we have made all the arrangements to torch tankers and vehicles,'' the pamphlet said. It also claimed the clump has already set two oil tankers ablaze.

The pamphlet said the drivers and assistants of the pair oil tankers managed to escape, further in future they will be ''punished with death.''

AIP said the Peshawar newspapers also received a fax from an organization calling itself the ''Organization of Afghan Youth'' declaring that Afghans like as those in the Hamid Karzai control who have aligned themselves with the United States have ''forfeited the right to call themselves Afghan.''

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