Taliban radio back on air

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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15009085%255E1702,00.html

AFGHANISTAN'S Taliban guerrillas launched a clandestine radio station today, broadcasting anti-government commentaries and Islamic hymns from a mobile transmitter.

Called "Shariat Shagh", or Voice of Shariat, after the station the Taliban ran while in power, the broadcast can be heard in five southern provinces, including the former regime's old power base of Kandahar.

As well as Islamic hymns and anti-government commentaries, the Taliban station also criticised US and other foreign troops operating in Afghanistan since the Taliban were ousted. Asked what the Taliban would do if US forces detected and destroyed their transmitter, Hakimi said they would set up another

Taliban attacks have picked up following a northern winter lull after the guerrillas failed in a vow to disrupt an October presidential elections won by President Hamid Karzai

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