The Taliban blamed the state of the US economy and last week's London riots on the war in Afghanistan in a statement published on its website on Monday. The insurgents claimed both situations were linked to the US and Britain spending hundreds of billions of dollars on the ten-year war in Afghanistan and again urged foreign troops to pull out of the country.
The Taliban are known to exaggerate and distort their public statements as part of a propaganda campaign accompanying a bloody armed insurgency.
"With no doubt, the immense and basic reason of the financial crises, deprivation and riots that United States and UK are facing now is because of the offensive and imperialistic policies and designs of these countries," a statement published on the Taliban's website said.
