Kabul, Nov 14 (SPA) -- Taliban fighters rejected overtures from Afghan President Hamid Karzai to abandon their insurgency and join a reconciliation process, while officials reported four more killings on Monday in Afghanistan's south and east. "Jihad and resistance against the American occupiers and its mercenary government is the only way," Abdul Hai Mutmaen, the Taliban's chief spokesman, told Reuters. "We have the will to fight and that will not decrease at all," he said by satellite telephone from an undisclosed location. Karzai reiterated a call for the Taliban fighters to lay down arms and rejoin the mainstream during a government-sponsored conference on Saturday to promote national reconciliation. The growing Afghan National Army is being supported by close to 30,000 troops from a U.S.-led force and NATO-led peacekeepers. --SPA 1240 Local Time 0940 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/302502