Posted on 01/26/2007 5:57:36 AM PST by lunarbicep
A NATO airstrike destroyed a Taliban command post in southern Afghanistan, killing a suspected senior militant leader, the alliance said Friday. Separately, an assailant gunned down an Afghan lawmaker who, under the former Taliban regime, oversaw the destruction of two Buddha statues carved into a cliff.
Maulavi Mohammed Islam Mohammadi, who was the Taliban's governor of Bamiyan province when the fifth-century Buddha statues were blown up with dynamite and artillery in March 2001, was killed on his way to Friday prayers in Kabul, said Zulmai Khan, Kabul's deputy police chief.
Mohammadi was elected in 2005 to represent the northern province of Samangan in Afghanistan's parliament.
After he was elected, Mohammadi said he should not be held responsible for the destruction of the statues, which the Taliban considered to be idolatrous and anti-Muslim.
``It was foreigners like Chechens and Arabs with the Taliban who made the decision. They were crazy people,'' Mohammadi told The Associated Press at the time. ``Even though I was governor, I had no power.''
International outcry followed the destruction of the giant Buddhas, which were chiseled into a cliff and famed for their size and location along the ancient Silk Road linking Europe and Central Asia. Archaeologists in Bamiyan have been painstakingly collecting the stone remains of the two statues - and are considering rebuilding them.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
LOL! I'm Hank Kimball this morning too! Love that guy.
.....I'm tempted to believe Mohammadi.....
He is telling the truth about the crazies but ..... who let them in? He did.
I'm not exactly sure...Big Night Music was actually one of the last vinyl records I ever bought before overhauling my collection to CD's back in the 80's. I think I still have it around somewhere:-)
Technically, wouldn't it be 1-1?
Well, this is game two.
I understand that. But it's the same excuse that Germans used after World War II. I was just following orders.
Awwwwwww geeeee that's too bad...
Don't tell Jack Bauer you don't know the answer to hs question.....
Don't waste his time when he says that he is running out of it....
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
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Poetic justice.
This is great news in the WAR ON TERROR.
All we hear is bad news and news that runs down our country and demoralizes our troops.
Finally, this story comes out today that shows the enemies of freedom for what they are, and reinforces why we are fighting this war. We need some good news from time to time.
It's also BREAKING NEWS.
So why did the Admin. Moderator take it down and put it under "misc" effectively ending the thread?
I had referenced the wrong quote. This is what I had meant to reference. It states that the official OVERSAW the destruction. You can infer that because he is now an elected official it gives him grace from his prior OVERSEEING of the destruction of the statues, and that he is miraculously a good guy now. I choose not to infer it. I wonder what else he "oversaw" under the former Taliban regime. Did he "oversee" the destruction of people as well as things?
Thank you for finding that video
"The mohaMADans need to get it thru their brainwashed heads that Afghanistan was not theirs, no matter how much they try to erase the proud Buddhist history."
You're gunna get a kick out of this:
(comments) muslims say Australia and America all belongs to them!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1773969/posts
The song (a live version) is on You Tube, but the sound quality is not good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=881tXHcgo-0
Karma.
Cool...Thank you!
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