Posted on 04/01/2011 10:46:43 AM PDT by kcvl
Ten United Nations staff were murdered - two by beheading - after extremists stormed their compound in northern Afghanistan today.
Protesters broke into UN offices in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif after a demonstration against Koran burnings in the America turned violent.
A small breakaway group attacked the UN compound, throwing stones and climbing on blast barriers to try to gain entry. They seized weapons from guards and opened fire before storming the site.
An Afghan police source, who asked not to be named, said the chief of the mission in the city was wounded but survived.
Among those murdered were Norwegian, Romanian, Swedish and Nepalese nationals. Two were decapitated, it is understood.
A UN spokesman confirmed that workers had been killed at the mission, but he said the situation on the ground was still confusing and it was difficult to 'ascertain facts'.
Staffan De Mistura, the top UN representative in Afghanistan, was heading to Mazar-i-Sharif to handle the matter personally, he added.
Over a thousand demonstrators had flooded into the streets of the normally peaceful city after Friday prayers, where they heard reports about the Koran burnings in America last month.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
More intimidation to keep us quiet, impotent, unresponsive, blind, deaf, dumb. The radicals are calling us out, trying to intimidate us, and the quaking media gives them the platform and banner to succeed, by the way they choose to write and headline the stories, in this now predictable routine. Eventually we may get extremely tired of all this circular psychology and answer their call. The enemy is just as mortal as we and martyrdom can be a two way street if they try to have their recital over here.
Can you, for just one second, imagine the horror? Reprehensible, disgusting, vile sentiment.
Yeah, did you say the same thing when American UN staff have been killed.
Politically, economically and socially, Afghanistan is rushing pell-mell from the 12th to the 13th century.
I respectfully disagree.
The neutron bomb was developed to minimize collateral damage.
Why would we want to minimize collateral damage there?
Could even cause collateral damage there?
Is there even any collateral to damage?
I’ve got an idea UN.
Next time you’re attacked, kill them before they kill you, then sit back and enjoy the sound of the wailing widows.
>Of course I regret these deaths
Yeah, right, what a lying pukey putz you are.
I’m with you.
If I’d have only known, it would be that easy to put an end to the UN. I’d have bought a pallet of Korans years ago.
“Am I remembering wrong or was no Koran actually burned? I thought the pastor backed down.”
I do believe you are correct.
Maybe he could atone by stoning himself to death on YouTube.
WTF? Why the hell weren’t these staffers armed? If you’re in that part of the world outside a major military base and you’re not carrying at least a sidearm, you’re taking serious chances with your life.
I was wondering that as well. Thank you.
He’s probably in the Oval Office on his prayer rug, as we speak.
Probably. I hope the prayer rug is infested with lice.
FUBO!!!
Neutron bomb?????? Surely you jest. It might actually kill the enemy. We can’t have that, can we?
/s (for the sarcasm impaired)
After reading some of the comments on this thread, I’m a bit surprised at the celebratory nature of some towards the murders of people at the hands of those sand rats.
The soldiers didn’t have any say, they were following their home country’s orders and were subjected to the rules of the UN. The UN doesn’t give a damn about the military personnel under their “command”, as evidenced by their ROE.
Those soldiers, were in effect, “sacrificed” by the UN.
Prayers for the families of those murdered.
And prayers for some FReepers as well.
there, fixed and ready to print out and tape to your car window
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