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Taliban Leader Says: "We will be executing attacks in Britain and the U.S."

May 14, 2007 5:03 PM

Dead Taliban Leader Was Training U.S./U.K. Recruits
Dadullah Makes Terror Threats Against U.S. and U.K. Before Death

AFGHANISTAN: Thirty-six hours before he was killed by U.S. forces, Taliban Commander Mullah Dadullah said he was training American and British citizens to carry out suicide missions in their home countries, according to a videotape interview to be broadcast on ABC News' "World News" Monday.

"We will be executing attacks in Britain and the U.S. to demonstrate our sincerity," he told an Afghan interviewer, "to destroy their cities as they have destroyed our cities."

A senior U.S. official told the Blotter on ABCNews.com that recent intelligence reports confirmed Dadullah's claim that U.S. citizens were being trained in Taliban and al Qaeda camps. "The number is small, not large, but even one is dangerous," the official said.

-- Source: ABCNews Blotter, Brian Ross and Christopher Isham, "Dead Taliban Leader Was Training U.S. Recruits," can be found at: http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/05/dead_taliban_le.html

Listen/Watch the Taliban Leader's Final Words: http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3173751