Radical Muslims provide Taliban with bombs
Sunday, February 22, 2009 at 9:02 am
A section of radical British Muslims are providing the Taliban with electronic devices to make roadside bombs for attacks against the US-led Nato forces in Afghanistan, media reports claimed today (February 22).
The devices, which enable Taliban fighters to detonate bombs by remote control, are either sent to sympathisers in neighbouring countries or carried in by volunteers who flew to Pakistan and crossed the border into Afghanistan, The Daily Telegraph newspaper claimed.
Details of how British electronic components had been found in roadside bombs were given to David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, when he visited British troops at their military compound at Lashkagar, in Afghanistan, this week.
In a briefing on operations by Brig Gordon Messenger, the Royal Marine commander of the British battlegroup, Miliband was shown samples of the home-made devices that were being used in attacks.
They included mobile phones filled with explosives used to attack foot patrols and more powerful devices used against vehicles.
Brig Ed Butler, former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, told the Telegraph that there were “British passport holders” in the Taliban ranks, and RAF surveillance planes monitoring Taliban radio in Afghanistan heard militants speaking with Yorkshire and Midlands accents.
Experts found British-made electronic components that ranged from remote control units that were normally used to fly model aircraft to more advanced components that enabled insurgents to conduct attacks from up to a kilometre away.
“We have found electronic components in devices used to target British troops that come from Britain,” an explosives expert told Miliband, the newspaper reported.
(With inputs from Agencies)
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