Taliban leader calls on Muslims to take sides

President Bush said Saturday the first phase of U.S. and British strikes on Afghanistan has been a success, while the ruling Taliban's leader called for the support of Muslims worldwide. "This campaign will not be completed in one attack," Bush said in his weekly radio address. "Our enemy prefers to attack the helpless. He hides from our soldiers. But we're making a determined effort to take away his hiding places." Intense airstrikes resumed Saturday on targets around the Afghan capital of Kabul and the ruling Taliban's spiritual base in Kandahar. In his weekly radio address, Bush said the Taliban's air defenses have been crippled, and "American forces dominate the skies over Afghanistan." The U.S.-led airstrikes on Afghanistan began Sunday after the Taliban refused to hand over Osama bin Laden, who tops the list of suspects responsible for the Septenber 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban's supreme leader, rejected Bush's Thursday suggestion that he would rethink the bombing campaign if they changed their minds.