Germans Targeted

"No one will escape the attacks," Obaidullah Akhund said in an interview published in the April edition of the German political magazine Cicero. "Not the Germans, not the British, not the Canadians and absolutely not the Americans. "We will kill them all," he said.

Obaidullah Akhund, who was Afghanistan's defense minister under the Taliban government, added that small commando units have infiltrated Afghanistan in the past months. He said these had no shortage of weapons and ammunition, and enjoyed strong support among the Afghan people.

The Cicero interview was conducted at the end of February in the Pakistan town of Quetta, which borders Afghanistan.

Germany accused of killing Muslims

The hard-line Pakistani politician, Maulana Noor Mohammed, also threatened Germany, telling Cicero that Germany was "as much of an enemy of true believers as the USA."

Noor Mohammed, who is the leader of the radical Islamist party Jamiat-Ulema-e-Islam, said Germans used warplanes "in its fight against Islam and massacred Muslim believers."

"I call for all true believing Muslims to fight against Germany and the Germans, as they fight against us," the politician said.

Germany currently has some 3,000 soldiers in Afghanistan as part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force. As of April, Germany will also deploy six Tornado reconnaissance warplanes to the region.