Posted on 02/07/2009 10:20:31 AM PST by NormsRevenge
ISLAMABAD (AFP) – A Pakistani militant group linked to Al-Qaeda claimed Saturday it beheaded a Polish engineer kidnapped last year to pressure Islamabad to release detained insurgents.
A spokesman for Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) told AFP by telephone that its men decapitated Piotr Stanczak early Saturday after the Pakistani government failed to meet the group's demands by a Friday midnight deadline.
No Pakistani government comment regarding the group's claim was immediately available, while Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said his country received "informal confirmation" of the engineer's death.
A spokesman for the Polish embassy in Islamabad, Piotr Adamkiewicz told AFP: "We got the information of his death from different sources, we consider it is 99.99 percent true, but we have no proof or official confirmation."
Stanczak was seized on September 28 by armed men who killed his two drivers and bodyguard in northwestern town of Attock, where he was working for a Polish energy company.
A few hours before the militants' deadline was due to expire, Tusk told media in Warsaw on Friday that "the Polish government never pays any ransom."
TTP is led by tribal warlord Baitullah Mehsud, and is also accused of having planned the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in December 2007. It is Pakistan's umbrella Taliban organisation.
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Bless his soul. :(
May this poor soul rest in eteranal peace. Zero thinks those monsters should be treated with kid gloves.
We have but to ‘reach out’ to them.
Where’s the outrage from the left??? This is terrorism and torture. Where are the same jerks who accuse US of torture?
Why the double-standard?
Prayers for Piotr Stanczak & family.
Are you sure this is true?
Are you forgetting who we have as President and the worldwide harmonic convergence of peace, civility and love that happened with the soothing and luminous Obamaster?
This must be a rerun from the Bush era!
Friends of Bambi. This cannot be true.
We could stop this sort of thing from happening if we would behead every captive they wanted released in retaliation. Seems fair to me.
News flashback from last month.
Barack Obama: it is no longer essential to kill Osama bin Laden
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5520116.ece
Just another example of "headline" (no pun intended) writing by the semi-literate?
(Seems to me that we have way too much these days of such careless usage.)
At least it mentions it; just now I saw the CNN bottom screen crawl and it just said "Polish engineer executed in Afghanistan," like he got the death penalty or something.
like he got the death penalty or something...etc...
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It could have read:
“Polish Engineer, guest of The Taliban, goes berserk and loses his head. No film at 11.”
No, it’s not a double standard.
Just fake cocnern used to manipulate the US.
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