TEHRAN Relations between U.S. President George W. Bush and black Americans sank deeper Sunday, as the leader of the nation's largest major black organization compared the Bush administration with a radical militia ruling Afghanistan.

Board Chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Julian Bond said that Bush has selected nominees from the Taleban wing of American politics, appeased the wretched appetites of the extreme right wing, and chosen cabinet officials whose devotion to the confederacy is nearly canine in its uncritical affection.

Afghanistan's Taleban militia has been roundly criticized for discriminating against women and religious minorities.

The stinging remarks, which were delivered in a keynote address at the 92nd-annual NAACP Convention, came after Bush made a concerted effort to bridge a gap between his administration and African-Americans, 90 percent of whom voted for Democrat Al Gore in last November's presidential election, AFP reported.

Since moving into the White House in January, the president has met with members of the Congressional Black Caucus, appointed prominent blacks like Colin Powell, Rod Paige and Condoleezza Rice to influential government posts and ordered the Justice Department to end racial profiling, an informal law enforcement practice targeting minorities as suspects.

But Bond, whose organization claims some 500,000 members, made clear he was not impressed by these steps.

NAACP claimed that the president who promised to unite, not divide, chose as secretary of the interior a woman who opposed racially equitable scholarships and regarded slavery as a set of "bad facts" that carried too great a loss for states' rights.