Posted on 03/18/2007 7:16:50 PM PDT by blam
Taliban mutilate Afghans for helping US
By Tom Coghlan in Kabul
Last Updated: 12:57am GMT 19/03/2007
Taliban militants have hacked off the ears and noses of three Afghan drivers captured helping American forces.
Marine Joe Harvey, from Stafford, right, watches as British forces come under fire by Taliban insurgents near Kajaki in Helmand province
Fighters mutilated the three men seized after delivering fuel to a US base in the eastern province of Nuristan on Saturday.
"After downloading their supplies into a coalition base in Nuristan, they were heading to Kunar," said Ghulamullah, the deputy chief of police in Nuristan, who uses only one name. "On their way the Taliban stopped them and cut off their noses and ears."
It is the first time that such a barbaric punishment has been meted out by Taliban fighters on those suspected of working with foreign forces.
Fuel tankers supplying American bases have previously been targeted by insurgents with the tankers routinely torched and the drivers often left badly beaten.
In October a group of eight Afghan labourers doing building work at a base in Nuristan were shot by the roadside.Dozens of government officials, notably teachers, have been executed in the south and east of Afghanistan in the past year.
Illegal Taliban checkpoints operating on roads in the south and east of the country have been reported to check drivers' mobile phones for foreign names or aid agencies and ring the numbers, executing the owner if a foreign voice answers.
The cutting of noses and ears echoes the Taliban's period of rule in Afghanistan when their government became notorious for its savage and often bizarre interpretation of Islamic Sharia law.
Meanwhile, in the southern province of Helmand, confusion last night surrounded the whereabouts of an Italian journalist kidnapped with two Afghan colleagues two weeks ago. Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, a Taliban spokesman, reported that Daniele Mastrogiacomo and his translator had been passed to local tribal elders yesterday after the Afghan government released two Taliban leaders. The Taliban said on Thursday that they had beheaded the third man, Sayed Agha, claiming he admitted being a spy for British forces. Sayed Agha had previously worked with The Daily Telegraph in Helmand.
However, one source involved in negotiations to free the journalists insisted last night that all remained in Taliban custody.
Revealing the names of GI's in action should be unlawful.
I'm pretty sure the Geneva Convention frowns on that.
< /irony >
***Fighters mutilated the three men seized after delivering fuel to a US base in the eastern province of Nuristan on Saturday. **
This is what the Algerians did to their own people helping the French in the 1960's.
A d*mn shame for these Afghan men who are trying to help bring Stan into a better place.
Yet our MSM (and Dem leadership) at every turn are doing all they can to help and indirectly support this evil.
Truly ugly times we live in today....regarding the evil we are fighting...and the lack of any intellectually honesty, context or principles out of our media.
Where are all the screams from those accusing the US of torture when they placed a stinky pair of womens skivvies over a Al Qaeda's head.
.....crickets.....
Indeed, Waziristan, North and South, should become a Nuclear-Practice-Area for our bombers and missles!
If one looks at the map of the area, the implications of a nuclear asswipe there would leave a lasting impression on several regional countries. ............... FRegards
A minor trifle, but Harvey is a Royal Marine, not USMC.
NO, regular and indiscriminate torture by mudslimes is specifically granted under the Geneva Conventions. I just checked.
What is prohibited, and noted numerous times is any placement of panties on heads. That is a no-no.
Not even the SS would violate that inviolate rule.
He’s a Royal Marine not a GI, and he’s also a good friend of mine, the reporters asked his permission to put his name in the press...
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