Anthropologist attacked in Afghanistan has died from burns; man accused of executing the attacker

Times Picayune ^ | January 09, 2009, 11:15 AM

[AmericanVictory]

He should be specially commended for a head shot.

[ScreamingFist]

And you save your military discipline for those in the military. The shooter was a contractor for BAE, now being charged in the US for what likely wasn’t even a crime in Afghanistan. If anything, the Afghans would say he was enforcing the law.

I can't really argue with that statement....touche'

[ScreamingFist]

Afghanistan is not a nice place. In fact, it is beastly and has been for a thousand years. Early after they had been conquered, the CIA loaded up hundreds of the Taliban’s most vicious killers in steel conexes, and had them shipped, slowly, across country, in the middle of summer. There were not a lot of survivors.

Now this BS, I would like to see some documentation.....noob...;)

[Dr.Zoidberg]

If Mr. Ayala killed the animal who attacked Ms. Loyd, then he is a hero and should be treated as such.

You shoot a rabid dog, you don’t reason with it or incarcerate it, you shoot it.

This is no different.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Enough with the insults, already. You have had your say.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/57649.html

DASHT-E LEILI, Afghanistan — Seven years ago, a convoy of container trucks rumbled across northern Afghanistan loaded with a human cargo of suspected Taliban and al Qaida members who’d surrendered to Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, an Afghan warlord and a key U.S. ally in ousting the Taliban regime.

When the trucks arrived at a prison in the town of Sheberghan, near Dostum’s headquarters, they were filled with corpses. Most of the prisoners had suffocated, and others had been killed by bullets that Dostum’s militiamen had fired into the metal containers.

Dostum’s men hauled the bodies into the nearby desert and buried them in mass graves, according to Afghan human rights officials. By some estimates, 2,000 men were buried there....

...However, the fact that U.S. special forces and CIA operatives were working closely with Dostum in late 2001, when the killings took place, has fueled suspicions that the warlord got a free pass.

The U.S. Defense Department has said that it found no evidence of American involvement or presence during the 2001 incident. If there was an investigation, however, its findings have never been made public.

“At the time, we had a handful of special forces and CIA, and there was no way we could have exercised any oversight” of the thousands of detainees under Afghan control, said Joseph Collins, who was then the deputy assistant secretary of defense for stability operations...