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Taliban hand over body of beheaded Polish man
Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | April 26, 2009
Posted on April 26, 2009 9:58:33 AM PDT by Schnucki
Taliban militants on Sunday handed over to Pakistani officials the body of a Polish man who was beheaded in February after being held by the hardliners for months, officials said.
Geologist Piotr Stanczak, 42, was working in Pakistan for a Polish oil and natural gas exploration company when he was seized in the volatile northwest of the country last September. His abductors killed his driver and his bodyguard.
His decapitation on February 7 – which was filmed by his captors and was the first of a Pole by Islamic militants – provoked a furious reaction from Warsaw, which slammed Islamabad’s “apathy” over tackling terrorism.
Stanczak’s body was handed over to officials in the town of Razmak, located about 40 miles south of Miranshah, the main town in the restive North Waziristan tribal district bordering Afghanistan, an official said.
It came as Pakistan launched a new offensive against militants in the Swat Valley.
“Taliban handed over the body of the Polish engineer to the local administration,” a security official said.
The official said the body was flown out of the area by helicopter but would not disclose the destination for security reasons.
In Islamabad, a Polish diplomat said that the embassy was awaiting further details about the recovery of Stanczak’s body.
Poland had offered a one-million-zloty (£197,000) reward for information leading to the capture of Taliban militants who beheaded Stanczak.
Warsaw had also requested US assistance to help capture Stanczak’s killers.
Poland is a close ally of Washington and has sent hundreds of troops to Pakistan’s neighbour Afghanistan to battle the Taliban there as part of a Nato force.
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Let’s not forget the Taliban hate Christians, Jews and barbershops.
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PAKISTANI CHRISTIAN ON RUN FROM TALIBAN DEATH THREAT
COMPASSDirect.org - COMPASS News ^ | November 27, 2009 | N/A
Posted on November 29, 2009 1:48:56 AM PST by Cindy
“Pakistani Christian on Run from Taliban Death Threat
Islamic extremist sermonizing leads to altercation at barbershop in South Waziristan.”
SNIPPET: “LAHORE, Pakistan, November 27 (CDN) — A young Christian man is in hiding in Pakistan from Taliban militants who seek to kill him for “blasphemy” because he defended his faith.
In February Jehanzaib Asher, 22, was working in a barbershop his family jointly owns with his cousin in Wana, South Waziristan – a Taliban stronghold in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in Pakistan’s northwest – when the Islamic militants showed up to try to convert him to Islam.”
SNIPPET: “He told Compass that he only defended Christianity and did not comment on Islam.”
SNIPPET: “The cousins’ barbershops in Wana have been closed after the encounter with the Taliban. Zaib Masih said that two relatives have government jobs as janitors, and the two families are surviving on their meager salaries.
Since the closing of their barbershops, Zaib Masih said, the families have living hand-to-mouth – barely able to have two meals a day.
South Waziristan is the headquarters of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, the Taliban umbrella group fighting the government, and is a hub of Arab and Uzbek Islamic militants. In mid-October the Pakistani Army launched an offensive after the Taliban managed to take the army’s general headquarters in Rawalpindi.”
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