BRITISH forces were placed on notice by the Taleban yesterday that their mission to impose security over southern Afghanistan would end in failure. On the day that Britain took command of the Nato forces that are being deployed in their thousands across the most volatile provinces of the country, the Taleban leadership sent them a chilling message. ÒOur activity will increase day by day. We now have the confidence to fight face-to-face and we have all the ammunition we need,Ó said Mohammad Hanif Sherzad, the spokesman for Mullah Omar, the reclusive, one-eyed Taleban leader, who has a $10 million (£5.4 million) bounty on his head.

ÒWe will turn Afghanistan into a river of blood for the British,Ó he told The Times on a satellite telephone from an undisclosed location. ÒWe have beaten them before and we will beat them again.Ó
timesonline.co.uk

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