JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR: Incorporating some of those Taliban claims you heard just a moment ago, Taliban officials accusing the United States of genocide for conducting the allied airstrikes in Afghanistan. CNN's John Vause is covering that development from the Pakistani capital of Islamabad -- John.</s>JOHN VAUSE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Judy. Increasingly strong language coming from the Taliban ambassador here in Islamabad at a press conference. He accused the United States of conducting genocide. He said that the U.S. forces were deliberately targeting civilians and said the United States is doing this because the people of Afghanistan decided to follow an Islamic government.</s>ABDUL SALEM ZAEEF, TALIBAN AMBASSADOR TO PAKISTAN: So far, 1,000 Afghan innocent civilian have been killed by American air raids. They include men, women and children. Today, a hundred in hospital in Herat was bombed by American and British planes. More than hundred people are reported to have been murdered.</s>VAUSE: In fact, over the last two weeks at least, the language coming from the Taliban ambassador is getting increasingly strong. When the airstrikes first began, he accused the United States of being a bully, then it went up to a terrorist, now we have this accusation of genocide. But also at that conference today, the Taliban ambassador spoke about shooting down the helicopter and in fact, in Afghanistan we saw the pictures of proof of that claim. They produced four wheels and some sheet metal. They said this was evidence of the wreckage of the downed U.S. chopper. They also said the rest of the helicopter could not be -- was in a dangerous area, it was in a landmine, it was too dangerous to get to and so therefore they could only show the world these pictures of the four wheels. For its part, the Pentagon as we have just heard, says that this certainly isn't the case. Which now brings us to the total of at least two choppers that the Taliban claims to have shot down. This all being denied by the Pentagon -- Judy.</s>WOODRUFF: All right, CNN's John Vause bringing us the latest from Islamabad. Thanks very much, John.
Taliban Accuses U.S. of Genocide