THE CLERGYMAN TALIBAN LEADER IS ON THE DESTRUCTION OF THE NICHTISLAMI
MONUMENTS IN AFGHANISTAN " PRIDE "







ISLAMABAD, 6 March.  (RIA "Nowosti" rIA-"Nowosti"-Korrespondent
Vladimir Schreter).  Mullah Mohammad Omar, religious leader of the
movement Taliban, is " proudly on its decision ", on the territory of
Afghanistan all not-Islamic historical monuments " destroys ", and
wants to be projects up to the end to float.

In its speech in Kandagar he explained that " all not-Islamic
Abgoetter " is destroyed in the country.  The buddhistischen fixed
images, under it to two world-wide unique enormous plastics, which
represent the Buddha in full size, in the province Bamian only 1 per
cent of the historical Monumente in Afghanistan represent.  "
therefore it it is completely incomprehensible, why so much noise is
struck over the destruction of these false Abgoetter ", quoted the
official Kabuler Scharia broadcast the execution of Omar.

In the meantime the Taliban soldiers continue to destroy the fixed
images in the province Bamian against the protests of the world
community.  Meanwhile there is no exact specification concerning the
damage, that the these, almost 2000.  Years one caused to old Buddha
plastics.

The decree of the Mullahs Omar over the destruction of all Buddha
plastics will be fulfilled already in this week, maintains the
Taliban.

Most moslemischen countries, among them Iran, Egypt and Pakistan
gotten used to with the Taliban condemn the decision of the Mullahs
Omar and explain that it contrary-runs the spirit of the Islamic
religion, the tolerance and peace preaches.