Posted on 02/17/2006 6:42:00 PM PST by jmc1969
Afghan television broadcast Friday what it said was exclusive footage of men murdered, some of them beheaded, in Pakistan because they were against the extremist Taliban and Al Qaeda movements.
The images broadcast on the evening news bulletin of private Tolo television station showed the decapitated heads of three men being held up in front of a crowd of onlookers. They also showed several bodies being dragged behind a pick-up truck.
Tolo said the pictures were filmed in Pakistan’s southern Waziristan province, which shares a border with southern areas of Afghanistan most affected by a deadly insurgency blamed in most part of Taliban militants. The men were killed because they “allegedly opposed the presence of Al Qaeda and Taliban operators in Waziristan province”, the television station said in a statement.
“The footage, obtained by Tolo TV exclusively, shows half a dozen dead bodies being dragged by a vehicle through the streets of Mandrakhel (in Waziristan) - while a uniformed Pakistani military officer drives past without interfering,” the statement said.
“In other scenes mutilated bodies and severed heads are placed on display in various positions and locations to dissuade others from opposing Al-Qaeda/Taliban presence in the region.”
“Crowds are heard chanting ‘long live Osama Bin Laden’ and ‘long live Mullah Omar’,” it said. The men are respectively the leaders of Al Qaeda and the Taliban. The television station did not say how it obtained the footage of the alleged incident, which it said occurred about a month ago. The leadership of the ultra-conservative Islamic Taliban regime is believed to have fled from Afghanistan into neighbouring Pakistan after it was toppled in late 2001 in a US-led invasion.
The attack that ousted them was launched after the hardliners did not hand over Osama Bin Laden - a staunch ally - wanted for the September 11 attacks. During their nearly five-year hold of government, the Taliban imposed a harsh version of Islamic Sharia law which included chopping off hands for theft and public executions, with the bodies of the dead sometimes paraded in public.
Many believe the nearly four-year-old insurgency that sees almost daily attacks in Afghanistan, including beheadings, is directed from across the border in largely lawless, tribe-dominated areas of Pakistan, including Waziristan.
Pakistan has for about two years had thousands of troops in the area to root out militants, but some Afghan officials say more needs to be done to remove the extremists hobbling the country’s attempts to rebuild. Cooperation between Islamabad and Kabul against the militants was the main theme of a three-day visit by President Hamid Karzai to Pakistan which ended Friday.
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The more people see the sick brutality of the Taliban and Al Qaeda, the more they will agree these terrorist sickos have no rightful place in any civilized society.
And that Bush is right. We need to get rid of them. Period.
Clinton can now chalk this up to the cartoons somehow!
The Clintons and Algore aren't concerned about thousands of savage terrorists mutilating and beheading and blowing up innocent people, but let a cartoon image of Mohammed or a Saudi visa applicant cause any complaints from Islamo-fascists and our sycophantic Demagogic "leaders" rush to Saudi-land and Pakistan, writhing in convulsions of empathetic agony for those poor downtrodden Islamo-fascists......
Nice post thank you!
Time for some brave US forces to line up about 200 of these tali-bin types, unsheath the knives, and perform a mass de-balling in front of the tv cameras. Send THAT message to the islamos.
You sure about that?...I think you over estimate the good will of men...
Humans are inherently warlike...have been, are and always will be...
America is a bubble of fantasy in a disgusting, evil and cruel world...
You saw glimpses of it in New Orleans...that is the true face mankind...
They died heroes.......
You sure about that?...I think you over estimate the good will of men...
As evil as this world has become, I still have good reason to believe I am right.
Case and point, the terrorists in Iraq stopped producing their beheading videos PRECISELY because it was causing them to lose support... both inside and outside of Iraq.
This kind of brutality meant to terrorize people into submission has the exact opposite effect when it comes to free people who actually resent it, ESPECIALLY Americans.
Waziristan: target rich environment. Forget the Predators, rev up the B-52s.
I see that murder and beheadings is not offensive to the islamocrap.
Especially Americans like you and I, and the folks here at FR...the rest either tune it out...or celebrate it.
There is a large faction in this country that love it when this crap happens...
As long as the Pakistan government tries to straddle the fence this stuff will continue. The pakis will have to get fed up with this crap just like the Iraqis did.
bump for later
Tie it off with raw bacon strips.
If they haven't made that determination by now, I have little hope they ever will. These TV images were broadcast to aid the terrorists - period. They were designed to further suppress resistance to AQ and the Taliban in and around Waziristan.
Lots of work yet to be done in Pak. So many nests of vipers still have heads.
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