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Taliban uses child to behead 'spy' [WARNING: picture at website is graphic]
news.com.au ^ | April 26, 2007 01:00am | David Nason

Posted on 04/25/2007 10:38:05 AM PDT by bedolido

THE Taliban's use of a child to behead a man accused of being a US spy has been condemned as a war crime and a grotesque example of the abuse of children in armed conflict.

A shocking video circulating in Pakistan shows the boy, believed to be just 11 or 12 years old, standing over his bound and blindfolded victim with a long knife and, in a high-pitched voice, denouncing him as an American spy about to meet his fate.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: behead; child; oldstory; spy; taliban
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1 posted on 04/25/2007 10:38:10 AM PDT by bedolido
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To: bedolido

I’ll take, ‘Stories that will NEVER be seen on tha whirld newz tanite for $5,000’ Alex.


2 posted on 04/25/2007 10:39:53 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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To: AD from SpringBay

I thought last year when the Taliban beheaded the little girl infant was worse


3 posted on 04/25/2007 10:42:38 AM PDT by Republicus2001
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To: bedolido

But homicide/suicide/chlorine bombing is not “a war crime under international law”.


4 posted on 04/25/2007 10:43:36 AM PDT by DigitalVideoDude (It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't care who gets the credit. -Ronald Reagan)
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To: bedolido

well at least he didn’t put panties on his head..


5 posted on 04/25/2007 10:47:45 AM PDT by Dick Vomer (liberals suck....... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.,)
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To: bedolido
Full coverage in The Boston Globe
6 posted on 04/25/2007 10:48:17 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: bedolido
This is how you remove humanity from people - have a 12 year-old behead a man.

It's always popular in war to paint your enemies as sub-human. But in this case, the jihadists make it clear by their actions that they truly are animals.

7 posted on 04/25/2007 10:48:31 AM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: bedolido

Don’t worry, I’m sure the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child will be all over this one. /s


8 posted on 04/25/2007 10:50:51 AM PDT by Quick or Dead (Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms - Aristotle)
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To: Quick or Dead

by golly you bet they will!! you can be sure they will get a nasty letter with LOTS of CAPITALIZATION!!


9 posted on 04/25/2007 10:59:02 AM PDT by wafflehouse (When in danger, When in doubt, Run in circles, Scream and Shout!)
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To: bedolido

Islam at its finest moment! (sarc)


10 posted on 04/25/2007 10:59:29 AM PDT by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: bedolido

The religion of peace teaching kids to be Islamic. ya gotta start them out young.


11 posted on 04/25/2007 11:09:31 AM PDT by sgtbono2002 (I will forgive Jane Fonda, when the Jews forgive Hitler.)
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To: bedolido

You’re all going down.... Taliban!


12 posted on 04/25/2007 11:11:11 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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They want to be painted as animals - animals humans fear. Fear is the most important factor to the jihadists. Saddam used fear to rule his people. Wonder how the elites will act when they start that stuff here. Will they cry, whimper, or mess on themselves while they’re being beheaded? Hope we will just have to wonder about that.


13 posted on 04/25/2007 11:14:16 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: sgtbono2002
The religion of peace teaching kids to be Islamic. ya gotta start them out young.

It takes a village...

/sarcasm>

14 posted on 04/25/2007 11:20:55 AM PDT by F-117A (Mr. Ahtisaari, give S?pmi it's independence! Free the Sami!!!)
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To: bedolido

I have never understood why people permit themselves to be beheaded. IF you know it, then grab a gun and kill as many of them as you can before they kill you. Or strangle someone. Or gouge their eyes out. SOMETHING. But most people do nothing. That great Italian guy remains my hero for going for a gun and yelling “this is how an Italian dies”...and denied them their beheading and P.R. videotape.


15 posted on 04/25/2007 11:29:04 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Republicus2001

Do you have a link to the story?


16 posted on 04/25/2007 11:30:19 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought (Self-defense works)
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To: montag813

I still remember that Italian man as well.


18 posted on 04/25/2007 12:07:00 PM PDT by Theo (Global warming "scientists." Pro-evolution "scientists." They're both wrong.)
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U.S. Senator Dick Durbin stated that he was convinced that the executed prisoner was given total due process, and believed that there was absolutely no conflict in his treatment with either the Geneva Convention or the policies of the UN High Commission on Civil Rights. Rep. John Murtha said, “me, too,” before dining on roast squab and endive salad with imported Pakistani capers in the Congressional cafeteria, and Sen. John Kerry was quoted as saying he wanted two chances to cast a vote on the question, but that, in any event, he always associates Abu Ghraib with this administration.


19 posted on 04/25/2007 12:10:45 PM PDT by DPMD (dpmd)
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To: bedolido

Just Muslims acting out the direct instructions of the Koran, nothing different here.


20 posted on 04/25/2007 12:19:58 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principle)
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