New Taliban magazine has article calling for taking foreigners hostage as prisoners of war

ALL THINGS COUNTERTERRORISM - blog ^ | November 28, 2009, 8:29 pm | Leah Farrall, Australia

[Cindy]

SNIPPET: "I finally got around to reading this.

Link to the article is here. It is in Arabic.

The article starts off talking about the missing 82nd airborne soldiers earlier this month.

This piece basically reiterates what Abu Walid al Masri wrote about in his July 2009 book wherein he outlined this strategy and suggested the Taliban adopt it.

Key difference being this new piece is an article in an official Taliban publication. The July 2009 book was Abu Walid’s own work, not part of a Taliban sanctioned media publication that has processes of review and approval before things get published.

It too advocates taking foreign military and civilians hostage, including aid workers and using them as bargaining chips.

It also says that adopting this strategy will help deflect the forthcoming surge of US troops by forcing more of them into defensive functions (such as protecting foreign aid projects etc) instead of offensive activities.

Another point of interest is that the article specifies that any hostages taken should be kept in Afghan hands."

[Cindy]

ON THE INTERNET:

www.alsomod.org/index.php/maqalat-41/1034-asra42.html

[bronzey]

Take foreigners as prisoners of war? Hey that’s a great idea. Can I do that here in Los Angeles?

[Cindy]

ON THE INTERNET:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/alsomod/index

[Prole]

Sounds like a great day to go on vacation outside the United States.

NOT!!!!!!!!!

[oyez]

The current American position on this kind of thing is, Get used to it. (Sh#t happens)

[Bellflower]

They want to take our civilians and turn them into prisoners of war and in the mean time if we capture them we want to turn them into citizens and Maronite's them. Talk about backwards. It doesn't get any more ridiculously backwards, stupid and dangerous.

[The Great RJ]

Gee will the Taliban’s prisoners be accorded all the rights of the Geneva Convention and be given fair trials in US style civilian courts??