My guess is they don't want their "property rights" interferred with... It's so pleasant having a built in class of slaves.
Posted on 07/16/2005 4:50:33 AM PDT by nuconvert
Taliban hang Afghan tribal chief
Sat Jul 16, 2005
Taliban guerrillas hanged a pro-government tribal chief in the troubled southern Afghan province of Zabul, accusing him of being an American spy, officials said on Saturday.
Malik Agha's killing was the fifth in the past six weeks and came as violence mounts in the run up to the Sept. 18 parliamentary elections that the Taliban have vowed to disrupt.
Agha was kidnapped on Friday by Taliban remnants as he came out of a mosque in Atghar district of Zabul and was hanged in a tree, district chief Gul Habib said.
Agha was the chief of a powerful tribe in Zabul near the border with Pakistan, he said.
Abdul Latif Hakimi, a spokesman for the Taliban, said Agha was hanged because he was "a spy for the American forces."
Agha's death came a day after U.S. forces killed 24 suspected Taliban and al Qaeda militants in fierce fighting on the Afghan-Pakistan border.
On Friday, the militants hit back elsewhere on the border, killing at least seven Afghan policemen and wounding five. The guerrillas have vowed to kill anyone supporting President Hamid Karzai's Western-backed government and dozens of officials, soldiers, police and civilians have died in growing militant violence in the run up to the polls.
Last Friday, suspected militants stabbed to death a senior pro-government cleric and his wife in their home in the southeastern province of Paktika. Days later, they shot dead another cleric in southern Helmand province.
Another Ulema Council member was shot dead near the city of Kandahar on July 3.
U.S.-led forces overthrew the radical Taliban government after it refused to hand over al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, the architect of the Sept. 2001 attacks on the United States.
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Did you ver notice how Mosques , which Islamics claim to be sacrosanct are not so sacrosanct when they wish to raid them, or to kill or capture someone who doesnt agree with them?
Call me a cynic, but when it comes to boosting your popularity w/ the locals I think the Taliban needs to rethink the PR angle of this.
Well, they did wait 'til he came out.
I think they mean "sacred" to infidel/non-belie
vers.
HA HA HA, they like to play by the rules I see..../sarc
Seems like this statement may be a weeee bit premature.
I think they just fell another coupla points in the favorability poll with the Muslims.
"Mosques , which Islamics claim to be sacrosanct"
Actually, it depends on the sect and how extreme/fundamentalist they are. (or if the building itself has some artistic or historic value) To many, a mosque is nothing more than a community meeting/prayer place, and the building itself means nothing. That's why they operate out of storefronts, etc.
They're not going to stop it from happening. People are going to vote and the terrorists won't intimidate them.
Now, he is a Bush-hater like they write books about, but he IS walking the walk.
A year ago, he could go all over the country doing his thing. Now, he has to stay in Kabul, and is not permitted out of his house at night.
According to him, assassinations of Afghans who work with us have increased so much that it has become difficult to do any work there at all, except in the Kabul "government zone".
As I said, a Bush-hater, but definitely ass in the grass.
FWIW.
"They're not going to stop it from happening. People are going to vote and the terrorists won't intimidate them."
Yup
Question for Teddy Splash Kennedy - Turban Durban - Chuckie Schumer - is this the same as having to wear panties on your head?
Not following your comment...the Taliban GOVERNMENT was swiftly and clearly overthrown. There are still Taliban there, trying to undo their overthrow, or, failing that, trying to make life miserable for the Afghans for daring to overthrow them.
That's because Islam has nothing to do with a God - it was an amalgam of Judaic, Christian and Arab Pagan myth rolled up into a convenient excuse to take over the tribes and kill anyone and anything in its way. Period. I refuse and will always refuse to give Islam a place in religion. I know too much about its history and origin.
Islam is no different than Scientology. Except Islam has no famous movie actors.
er - meant Judaic and Christian 'TEACHING' and Arab Pagan myth.....
My guess is they don't want their "property rights" interferred with... It's so pleasant having a built in class of slaves.
You believe the Taliban government is still in power??
Where have you been the past 3 1/2 years?
The Taliban understand that the clerics are the moral authority, if you control the clerics, you control the people.
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