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Buddha statue villain shot dead
The Scotsman ^ | 1/27/07 | AMIR SHAH

Posted on 01/27/2007 8:10:23 AM PST by Valin

KABUL A FORMER Taleban official who oversaw the destruction of the 1,500-year-old Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 was assassinated in Afghanistan yesterday. Maulavi Mohammed Islam Mohammadi, who was the Taleban's governor of Bamiyan province when the giant fifth-century statues were blown up in March 2001, was killed on his way to Friday prayers in the capital, Kabul.

A gunman dressed as a construction worker shot and killed him and wounded one of his two bodyguards with an AK47 assault rifle before fleeing. Mohammadi was elected in 2005 to represent the northern province of Samangan in Afghanistan's parliament.

After that, Mohammadi said he should not be held responsible for the destruction of the statues, which the Taleban considered to be idolatrous and anti-Muslim. They were located in the provincial capital of Bamiyan where Mohammadi was based. "It was not my decision. It was foreigners like Chechens and Arabs with the Taleban who made the decision. They were crazy people," Mohammadi said. "Even though I was governor, I had no power."

An international outcry followed the destruction of the Buddhas, which were chiselled 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.

Mohammadi fled to the north of the country and was never detained after US-led forces defeated the Taleban in late 2001.


TOPICS: Front Page News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; bamiyan; bamiyanbuddhas; buddhas; godsgravesglyphs; islamofascism; taleban
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1 posted on 01/27/2007 8:10:24 AM PST by Valin
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To: SunkenCiv

Ah, sweet revenge!


2 posted on 01/27/2007 8:15:55 AM PST by To Hell With Poverty (If this city were any 'bluer', it'd be spelled 'bleu'.)
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To: Valin

Great news! Thanks for posting.


3 posted on 01/27/2007 8:16:34 AM PST by cloud8
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To: Valin
Hmmm, I wonder if it was one of those violent Lutherans, or those mean Methodists? Perhaps a Baptist fundamentalist? A crazed Catholic, a mad Mormon? An initiation rite of a Episcopalian gang?

Or is it one of those feral Islamic animals running around in the streets?
4 posted on 01/27/2007 8:17:01 AM PST by Hodar (With Rights, come Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
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To: Valin

'Couldn't happen to a nicer guy ...


5 posted on 01/27/2007 8:17:27 AM PST by Ken522
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To: Valin

Karma


6 posted on 01/27/2007 8:18:20 AM PST by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: Valin

"A gunman dressed as a construction worker"

How do gunmen normally dress?


7 posted on 01/27/2007 8:18:25 AM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: To Hell With Poverty

The more of these whack job muslims that die, the better as far as I'm concerned, but I wonder how Buddhists would think about killing a person because of the destruction of a statue? Aren't they big time pacifists?


8 posted on 01/27/2007 8:19:09 AM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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To: Valin

GOOD!


9 posted on 01/27/2007 8:19:36 AM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: Valin

This brings a smile to my face, another piece of bad rubbish gone from this earth. Oh, yeah - the Arabs and the Chechans, it's always someone else's fault, excuses, excuses.


10 posted on 01/27/2007 8:22:02 AM PST by fishergirl (My warrior, my soldier, my hero - my son. God bless our troops!)
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To: Hodar

LOL!! I'm Methodist and I'm getting meaner.


11 posted on 01/27/2007 8:23:25 AM PST by fishergirl (My warrior, my soldier, my hero - my son. God bless our troops!)
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12 posted on 01/27/2007 8:24:04 AM PST by firewalk
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To: Valin

Another happy ending. Who says there is never any good news reported?


13 posted on 01/27/2007 8:24:38 AM PST by elhombrelibre (After 9/11, Bush went to war with terrorists and their supporters. Democrats war against him.)
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To: Valin
Bad karma will eventually catch up with all villains.
14 posted on 01/27/2007 8:24:57 AM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Valin; All

My name is Maulavi Mohammed Islam Mohammad....


15 posted on 01/27/2007 8:25:35 AM PST by KevinDavis (“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual ways of preserving peace” – George Washington)
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To: Valin


16 posted on 01/27/2007 8:31:15 AM PST by Teacher317 (Are you familiar with the writings of Shan Yu?)
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To: Valin

Bye Bye Asshat


17 posted on 01/27/2007 8:31:17 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Valin
The mohahmedeans are good at destruction


18 posted on 01/27/2007 8:35:04 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: taxed2death

Not quite instant karma, but it still got him.


19 posted on 01/27/2007 8:36:16 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Never bring a knife to a gun fight, or a Democrat to do serious work...)
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To: Valin
Mohammadi was elected in 2005 to represent the northern province of Samangan in Afghanistan's parliament.

This is the disturbing part of this article. Mohammadi biting the big one was the good part.

The fact that this guy was elected to the Afgan parliment shows me that Afganistan will never amount to a rat's ass, and for the country not to be a 'training ground for terrorists', Americans will have to be there forever.

Maybe we should 'redeploy' and let the muzzies fight it out among themselves..

..unless, of course, we decide to wage a proper war, and rid the world of islam once and for all.

20 posted on 01/27/2007 8:37:12 AM PST by B.O. Plenty (liberalism, abortions and islam are terminal)
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