Afghan Taliban Invites Opposition Fighters to Join
Sunday October 14 10:42 AM ET
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - The intelligence chief of Afghanistan's Taliban rulers said Sunday his radical Islamic movement wanted opposition commanders to join them to fight U.S.-led attacks on the country, the Afghan Islamic Press said.

Qari Ahmadullah was quoted by the Pakistan-based AIP as saying that Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar had issued orders not to seize weapons from opposition fighters who joined hands with his radical Islamic movement.

``We will forget the past problems with those people who join us because now it is the question of our religion and country,'' the AIP quoted him as saying in an interview.

The Taliban, facing U.S.-led military strikes for a week for refusing to handover Saudi-born fugitive Osama bin Laden and his followers, control more than 90 percent of Afghanistan, the rest of which is held by the opposition Northern Alliance.