It was only a matter of time before the Taliban leaders played the religious card:
"O mankind! We created you from a single pair, and made you into nations and tribes, that you may know each other and not despise each other..."
The Koran, Sura 49, Verse 13.
This Jihad is a result of fantacism, political posturing, terror and oppression - and has nothing to do with the true nature and teaching of Islam.
Let's hope it is a means to finally release the impoverished and opressed Aghani peoples from the stranglehold their "government" has over them.