KABUL: Afghanistan's Taliban have sent a message to NATO leaders at a major summit in Chicago, calling the "war on terror" an excuse for colonisation and urging them to follow the French lead and get out.

A statement on the Taliban website, Voice of Jihad, says no Afghans were involved in al Qaeda's 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington that prompted a US-led invasion of Afghanistan.

The statement fails to mention that the invasion in late 2001 followed a r ... read more

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