Jalalabad: At exactly 6 pm across this nervous city and surrounding districts, a clandestine radio broadcast comes to life each night with sounds of clashing swords, drumming hoofbeats and bursts of machine-gun fire. "Caliphate Radio, where hell welcomes the conspirators of infidels", intones the announcer in the Pashto language. For the next 90 minutes, speakers deliver sermons on Islam, recite Koranic verses in Arabic, threaten death for anyone connected with the "infidel" government and call on young Afghans to join their holy war. No one is sure where the week-old broadcasts are coming from. Officials say that they are attempting to track the radio...
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