‘Seminary students’ kill 17 robbers

Daily Times Pakistan ^ | 12/7 | Daily Times

[voletti]

The violence began when three students were killed for refusing to pay “tax” at a check post set up by highwaymen near Darpakhel village, west of Miranshah.

As they heard the news of their peers’ death, the students came out with arms, including rocket-launchers, to avenge their killing. They attacked the highwaymen, killing seven late on Tuesday afternoon and another 10 on Wednesday.

Eyewitnesses said that the seminary students later set fire to the highwaymen’s houses after evacuating the women and children. On Wednesday morning, the students carried off the bodies of five of the highwaymen from the Miranshah Town Committee without any resistance from the civil administration.

“The situation is beyond the civil administration’s control, and only the army can do something,” an official said.

Eyewitnesses said that the students were looking for the remaining highwaymen and had warned local tribesmen against sheltering them in their houses. “Anyone found sheltering these people will meet the same fate as them,” threatened one student.

The bodies were hung from electricity poles with cigarettes and currency notes stuffed into their mouths, symbolising their lust for money and a luxurious life. A dog was chained to one body to insult him, and the students refused to allow the bodies’ burial. According to Islamic burial rules, a dead body has to be buried within 24 hours.

[voletti]

Wow. Didya get that? "Seminary students" armed with rocket launchers and the like?!

students refused to allow the bodies’ burial. Now there's a good tactic the US army could learn on how to deny terrorists their ticket to paradise...heh heh

[The Electrician]

the students came out with arms, including rocket-launchers

RKBRL alert...

[wmfights]

"students refused to allow the bodies’ burial. Now there's a good tactic the US army could learn on how to deny terrorists their ticket to paradise"
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Wow! If its true, how do we get this to be our military's official policy?

[PAR35]

Seminary students" armed with rocket launchers and the like

I suspect that the primary textbook at that seminary is the Koran, and that the students, upon graduation, are planning to serve as missionaries in Afghanistan, Iraq, or Israel.

[oyez]

They undoubtedly will get a lot of people to pray.

[gdc61]

the term "highwaymen" here, is probably islamic code for Christian farmers selling vegetables along the road.

[Frank_2001]

Well, Islam means peace, and they've got to spread the peace!/s

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

The hanging bodies were reminiscent of the death of Dr Najibullah, the former Afghan president, who was dragged out of the UN compound in Kabul and shot dead. His body was hanged at the famous Kabul Square on the day that the Taliban took over Afghanistan in 1996.

Muslim style lynching.