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Posted on 10/08/2004 6:04:54 PM PDT by aculeus
An Afghan warlord who settled in Britain kept a human dog to bite his victims and waged a campaign of kidnap and torture against civilians, the Old Bailey was told yesterday.
Faraydi Zardad, a veteran fighter against the Russians and the Taliban, was the commander of soldiers manning checkpoints on the Jalalabad road, the vital supply route between Kabul and Peshawar.
He had complete authority in the area between 1992 and 1996 and "had a fearsome reputation for being cruel and merciless", the court was told.
In the first prosecution of its kind Zardad, 41, who was arrested while living in Streatham, south London, denies plotting to torture and take hostages.
Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney General, told the jury it was an unusual case. It was unusual to try cases in any British criminal courts when the matters concerned did not take place in Britain.
"It is more unusual still to try matters when the defendant is not a British subject, nor the victims British," he said. "However there are some crimes which are so heinous, such an affront to justice, that they can be tried in any country. Zardad was found in England. International conventions and English law allow the trial of anyone who has committed torture or hostage-taking.
"We believe this to be the first time in any country, in international law and certainly English law, where offences of torture and hostage-taking have been prosecuted in circumstances such as this."
Lord Goldsmith said that a decade ago Afghanistan was under the control of rival private armies. Zardad was a commander in the Hezb-I Islami (the Islamic Party).
He led up to 1,000 men and controlled Sarobi, an area east of Kabul, and checkpoints on the road. This "enabled him and his soldiers to steal money and goods from people passing through the checkpoint".
A supporter of a rival warlord described Zardad's human dog, who was kept in chains in a hole, as "biting people and eating testicles on the orders of soldiers at the checkpoint". Travellers who did not pay the soldiers were put in a tent with him.
Anthony Jennings, QC, defending, said that in some quarters Zardad was regarded as a hate figure which "could lead to propaganda and lies".
The case continues.
Ping.
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WTF....I don't know whats nuttuer,the defendant or the porspect of being "tried anywhere"...sort of like bieing prosecuted in Lowell for a bar fight in New Orleans..MAN the Euros get stranger everyday. almost as much fun as the Prophet's faithful....
Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.
I don't get it. What's a "human dog"?
Hitlery??
What's a human dog? Take your pick.... Hellary or Te-Ray-suh.
...answered to the name: KERRY.
GULP!!!!
I don't know, but I've heard the army is training shark birds as a countermeasure. With freakin' lazer beams on their heads.
"I don't get it. What's a "human dog"?"
Geez, he has a human "slave", a real human being, that he used to do his "dirty work", namely biting and chewing up the private parts of his victims. Human teeth can do some really nasty work on another human's body. Look what Mike Tyson did when he bit his opponent in the ring; took a piece of the guy's ear off. Ptoooeeey!
I fail to understand the constitutional basis to try this non-Briton in a British court for offenses which occurred in a non-British locale.
Abdullah Shah (AKA "human dog") was taken from his cell in Kabul to a prison on the outskirts of the city and shot in the back of the head.
Shah was charged with 20 counts of murder and sentenced to death after three trials by a special court in October 2002. The Afghan regime alleged he was an underling of a militia commander known as Zardan, who controlled the Paghman district of Afghanistan—near Kabul—in the early 1990s on behalf of the warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Hekmatyar is currently opposing the US presence in Afghanistan and his party, Hezb-i-Islami, has been proscribed by the Bush administration as a terrorist organisation.
Shah was allegedly nicknamed “Zardan’s Dog” due to his brutality. Prosecutors claimed he was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people. Thirteen people testified that Shah had murdered their relatives. Among other charges laid against him were the murder of one of his wives and his baby daughter. Another of his wives testified against him, accusing of him of trying to burn her to death.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/may2004/afgh-m07.shtml
Shah, also known as "The Sarobi Dog," was second in command at a deadly checkpoint outside the town of Sarobi on the Kabul-Jalalabad road in eastern Afghanistan.
He earned his nickname during the Mujahadeen era, from 1992 to 1996, for barking like a dog at travelers who refused to pay illegal roadside tolls. He reputedly killed thousands who failed to hand over cash and goods.
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/04/27/afghan.execution/
Biting is a fairly common method of fighting in that part of the world. Remember the first American killed in Afghanistan was attacked near a prison by a few shooters and mostly biters who killed him. Marin County's Johnny Jihad was there. Later, we saw photos of Taliban fighters being loaded on planes to Guantanamo wearing Inquisition-looking masks. The liberals were wsringing their hands, but the masks were to prevent the creeps from biting American soldiers.
In an article in the Feb 2002 Vanity Fair, a defector from Sadam's terror training camp in Salman Pak discussed one of the candidates' graduation exercises as being thrown into a field with dozens of mad dogs and killing them by biting their necks.
Let's never forget how savage these Muslimofascits are by training and inclination.
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