KABUL (AFP/Reuters) - The Taliban on Friday levelled a stinging attack on the UN, ratcheting up pressure on the world body as it relocates 600 foreign staff in Afghanistan and reassesses its position in the country. In a statement on its website, the Taliban accused the UN of suppressing and oppressing Muslims while supporting arrogant invaders. The UN decision to temporarily withdraw 600 foreign staff - more than 50 per cent of the current total - comes in response to a Taliban attack on a hostel nine days ago in which five UN employees and two Afghans were killed. Referring to a pledge by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to bring the perpetrators to justice, the Taliban accused the world body of horrendous crimes in the eight years since the Islamist regime was pushed from power. They have their share in the mass murders of the Afghan people and are the cause of the tragedies and sufferings of the Afghans, the statement said in English. During the past eight years, never a day has passed without the Americans and Western brutal forces not committing crimes, murder or torture against our people or not encroaching on our national and religious values, it said. The strong reaction shown by the Security Council following the murder of a few Western staff members portray that this organisation has taken upon itself as its only duty to exclusively protect Western nationals and their interests. Pulling staff back in such a manner risked the creation of mini green zones similar to that in Baghdad at the height of the Iraq war, said Norine MacDonald, president of the International Council on Security and Development. You end up creating Western enclaves which removes people from their contact with the Afghan community they are supposed to be working with and this is also very bad local politics. But it is certainly understandable why the UN feels the need to do that, she said. While the UN has stressed the withdrawal is temporary, a UN official speaking anonymously, said that if the security situation continues to deteriorate there is no question a complete pullout would be considered. The UN faced continuing threats, he said, adding: As long as there is no spike (in attacks), we have a security timeline of a couple of years. Meanwhile, two Nato soldiers who went missing in Afghanistan two days ago are American paratroopers, the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said on Friday. The Taliban said they were holding the bodies of two drowned foreign soldiers. The militias spokesman Qari Yousuf told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location that they had recovered the bodies of the drowned soldiers Wednesday in the western Badghis province. Isaf made no reference to an earlier assertion by Afghan police that the two had died by drowning, apparently accidentally, while doing logistics work in the northwestern province of Badghis. The missing soldiers are from the Fourth Brigade Combat team of the 82nd Airborne Division, ISAF said in a statement. All available resources are being used to find the two missing paratroopers, the statement quoted brigade operations officer Lieutenant Colonel Guy Jones as saying. Further information is being withheld while the search and rescue operations continue and while the incident is being investigated, the statement added. Earlier the deputy police chief of Badghis, Abdul Jabar, told AFP the soldiers had drowned while trying to retrieve packages from a river, but added that their bodies had not yet been recovered. He said the two service-members were Americans, who drowned in a river after arriving in the area during a gunbattle Wednesday. The Nato-led force in Afghanistan said more than 25 Alliance and Afghan troops were wounded during a search for the missing US soldiers. The force gave no further details about the circumstances of the incident. The chief of police in Badghis province in western Afghanistan, Abdul Jabar, said Nato aircraft had struck their own troops who were searching for the two missing soldiers.