Posted on 08/10/2006 12:50:40 AM PDT by vimto
Accused by the Taleban of spying, they were killed to deter locals from mixing with Nato forces
SHOT and hanged from the branch of a fruit tree, the mother and her teenage son were summarily tried, sentenced and executed for no bigger a crime than delivering clean laundry to a relative.
The fate of the 45-year-old woman and her 13-year-old son on Monday shocked even war-hardened locals in southern Afghanistan, where people are killed daily in the raging battle between the Taleban and the Nato-backed Government.
“These two people had been to visit a relative in the town of Musa Qala to deliver some clean laundry. He was working as a policeman. When they returned home the Taleban accused them of being spies and hanged them from a mulberry tree,” Amir Muhammad Akhunzada, the deputy governor of Helmand, told The Times.
He said that after the murder villagers in Daigh, five miles (8km) north of Musa Qala, were warned that they would share the same fate if they collaborated with the enemy.
In this case the enemy are the Afghan government forces and the British Army supporting them, who have been locked in clashes this summer that have killed four British soldiers and scores of Taleban militants.
I see the Taliban has been working on their public relations skills while in their hiding holes.
I can't imagine shooting women and children sits well with the average Afghan man in the street, and its got to be seen as an act of desperation even by the locals.
there should be no Taliban prisoners.....zero
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In the version I got yesterday in a briefing it was a 70-year old woman and her 13-year old grandson.
Regardless, as I told our guys this morning, when you're home on R&R and someone asks the reason why you're in Afghanistan, here's a good one to give.
In one!
as the old protest song says "when will they ever learn...."
Actually, if you review history, once again a story is posted that shows the true face of Islam as it has been for centuries.....
Ya know, every single day I become more and more impressed with the values exemplified by the practitioners of the Religion of Pieces. How much more noble and courageous can these people be than to murder innocent women and children who pose absolutely no threat whatsoever to them!! A great, great, proud religion if ever there was one.
(Does this REALLY need a "/dripping sarc" tag? I mean REALLY!!??)
In the past 35 years my attitude about Islam has changed from indifferent to absolute and resolute. Islam must perish.
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