KABUL, July 26 (Xinhuanet) -- Taliban's elusive supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has called upon his followers to intensify Jihad or holy war against US-led foreign troops in Afghanistan.

    In an audiocassette addressed to his loyalists and released Monday, the radical Mullah urged Taliban warriors to fight unitedly against the foreign troops in the post-Taliban nation.

    "Put aside differences and get united, you will emerge victorious," Omar said in the message released by his spokesman Mullah Abdul Latif Hakimi.

    Omar, a wanted man in the US, in his message also called upon insurgents not to target common and civilians during their operations.

    "Westerners by invading our country imposed war on us and it is our responsibility to resist the occupiers. Our situation is improving day by day and the victory will embrace us," Omar said in the audio tape

    If authentic, it is the first since the collapse of Taliban regime in late 2001 that Taliban's chief is releasing his audiocassette and indicates that he is alive and in command of themilitants.

    The fugitive leader of Taliban also in the message disclosed that he brought reform in his movement's leadership and increased the strength of the fundamentalist movement's council to 18.

    A 10-member council headed earlier Taliban's movement.

    He also disclosed that 14-member military councils have been ineach province to look after the military affairs of the movement in the war-shattered country.

    "14-memebr military councils have been running the military affairs of provinces from Kunar to Ghazni onward to Herat in consultation with the supreme leader," he said.

    He also called on religious leaders to stop cooperation with the government.

    "Our religious leaders not to be tempted by our enemies. We call on our religious leaders to support Taliban in their Jihad,"he said.

    The Taliban in its effort to counter the Afghan government and US media has established a mobile radio to broadcast militants activities.

    Omar's audio tape has been circling amid militants' new wave of violence as the militia in its latest attack shot and dead an alleged pro-government parliamentary candidate in southeast Paktika province Tuesday.

    The Taliban-led insurgents in a strike injured six US solders in eastern Kunar province the other day.

    Over 400 people including militants, Afghan and US troops as well as civilians have been killed in new wave of militancy over the past four months in the post-Taliban Afghanistan. Enditem