Associated Press
SPINBOLDAK, Afghanistan — A Taliban spokesman said the world should move on and forget about the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, focusing instead on U.S. actions in Afghanistan. That drew a sharp retort from a senior U.S. official, who said the Taliban movement itself will soon be forgotten.
"You should forget the Sept. 11 attacks because now there is a new fighting against Muslims and Islam, and the international and global terrorists like America and Britain, they are killing daily our innocent people," said Syed Tayyab Agha, spokesman for Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar.
In Washington, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz responded to the Taliban comments, saying, "They suggested that we should forget about Sept. 11 and move on, and I can assure them we will not forget about Sept. 11.
"We are moving on, and I think before long the world will forget about the Taliban," Wolfowitz said.
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