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Taliban Death Threat to Opposition Supporters
Wednesday, October 3, 2001
(10:15 AM MET)
Journalist Kamal Hyder in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan contributed to this report.

Anyone who supports the king or any other anti-Taliban government "will be accused of treason" -- an offense that could result in the death penalty, Omar warned.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- CNN
The head of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban has warned that anyone supporting an opposition government, including one headed by the country's former king, will be considered traitors punishable by death. Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar delivered his speech over Kandahar's Radio Sharia -- his fifth public address since the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.

A leader who in the past had rarely spoken publicly to the Afghan people and who has never been seen on camera, Omar cast himself as a representative of the nation's people bent on preserving the Taliban's Islamic customs.

He said Afghans need to look after their religion and to not let U.S. involvement in "our affairs" destroy Islam. He warned against reinstating the former Afghan king, Mohammed Zahir Shah, or any form of government to replace the Taliban.
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