But according to Biden, the Taliban is “not our enemy.”

(CNSNews.com) — As controversy greeted Vice President Joe Biden’s assertion that the Taliban “is not our enemy,” the militant Afghan movement on Tuesday launched a verbal assault against the United States, demanding that it pay compensation and that its leaders be put on trial for the “nine year occupation of Iraq.”

In a statement attributed to Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid, the group accused the U.S. of invading Iraq in 2003 in a bid to “control its rich mineral resources and fill its belly with oil.”

But despite spending a trillion dollars and losing thousands of American soldiers, the Taliban said, “it was the will of Allah Almighty that in this Muslim country, the neck of imperialism would be broken, its plots and determination made fruitless and it would be forced to flee empty handed in the end.”

The U.S. should be forced to account for its actions in Iraq.

“The nations of the world must put pressure on the United Nations and other international organizations to drag and put on trial those perpetrators of the American administration who had a role in burning the Iraqi people in the flames of gunpowder for nearly a decade under false pretexts,” Mujahid declared.

“It is the due right of the Iraqi people to expose the American authority and to ask for a heavy compensation for causing the catastrophic destruction of Iraq.”

The statement was released two days after the last U.S. soldiers withdrew from Iraq, eight years and nine months after a U.S.-led coalition entered the country to overthrow the Saddam Hussein regime.