By
Husbaullah Mutawakkel, IOL Pakistan Correspondent
PESHAWAR,
October 7 (IslamOnline) - A year after the beginning of the U.S. war on
Afghanistan, a Taliban senior official accused former ministers and
senior officials in the movement of having been traitors and U.S. agents
prior to the fall of the regime.
The
accusations came in a letter sent to IslamOnline’s correspondent in
Peshawar. The message, written in Persian, is signed with the name of Taliban spokesman Mulawi Ghaznawi.
In
his message, Ghaznawi accused the former Taliban energy and water
minister of taking money from the United States, as well as equipment
such as satellite cellular phones to send intelligence-related
information to the Americans.
He
said he has the documents to prove his accusations and threatened to
reveal them in another letter in the near future.
Former
deputy foreign minister Abdul-Rahman Zahed, and former deputy
transportation minister Abdul-Hakim Moneeb, received similar equipment
and funds in exchange for providing information before the U.S. attack
on Afghanistan launched October 7, 2002, Ghaznawi added.
Ghaznawi
hinted that the Afghan foreign minister knew that his deputy had
relations with the Americans.
They
received the money and equipment through an intermediary by the name of
Othman who Ghaznawi said is an engineer in the computer department at
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“Othman
received the money and equipment through the United Nations office in
Kabul,” he said.
In
the few days before the fall of Taliban, rumors had it that some
intelligence who had links with the Israeli Intelligence (Mossad) had
found their way into the government, he said.
“Days
later, news about these cell phones given to specific people started,”
he added.
The
war prevented any possible investigation of the issue and hindered legal
actions against the Taliban high ranking traitors, the spokesman said.
