World | Taliban UK Cabbie Moonlights as ... Taliban Fighter British citizens with Afghan roots head over for months at a time By John Johnson Posted Nov 26, 2010 2:38 PM CST Copied Afghan security forces escort suspected Taliban members in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Reza Shirmohammadi) Talk about deflating the mystique of the Taliban: "I work as a minicab driver," one fighter in northern Afghanistan tells the Guardian. He spends most of the year in East London but travels to Afghanistan for a few months to join the fight—and he's apparently not alone. "There are many people like me in London," he says. "We collect money for the jihad all year and come and fight if we can." Which explains why RAF spy planes have picked up Yorkshire and Birmingham accents on fighters communicating via radio. Read These Next North Carolina shooting suspect once walked the red carpet. The gunman who killed 4 at a Michigan church was an ex-marine. 'We heard a big bang,' says churchgoer in Michigan Skydivers leap from plane 2 minutes before fatal crash. Report an error