Taliban Ask Former Mujahideen to Fight NATO

The taliban, just like NATO, is lobbying for more fighters for the conflict in Afghanistan. Reuters

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taliban Islamic movement has urged the war-torn nation's former mujahideen factions to join it in their campaign to drive out foreign forces from the country.

The Taliban appeal follows complaints by some mujahideen leaders about being sidelined from President Hamid Karzai's government they brought to power by helping U.S.-led forces with the overthrew of the Taliban in 2001.

But the factional forces, many of whom fought against the former Soviet invasion of the country, still have military and political positions in Karzai's government.

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