Posted on 09/25/2021 2:19:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban hanged a dead body from a crane parked in a city square in Afghanistan on Saturday in a gruesome display that signaled the hard-line movement’s return to some of its brutal tactics of the past.
Taliban officials initially brought four bodies to the central square in the western city of Herat, then moved three of them to other parts of the city for public display, said Wazir Ahmad Seddiqi, who runs a pharmacy on the edge of the square.
Taliban officials announced that the four were caught taking part in a kidnapping earlier Saturday and were killed by police, Seddiqi said. Ziaulhaq Jalali, a Taliban-appointed district police chief in Herat, said later that Taliban members rescued a father and son who had been abducted by four kidnappers after an exchange of gunfire. He said a Taliban fighter and a civilian were wounded by the kidnappers, and that the kidnappers were killed in crossfire.
An Associated Press video showed crowds gathering around the crane and peering up at the body as some men chanted.
“The aim of this action is to alert all criminals that they are not safe,” a Taliban commander who did not identify himself told the AP in an on-camera interview conducted in the square.
Since the Taliban overran Kabul on Aug. 15 and seized control of the country, Afghans and the world have been watching to see whether they will re-create their harsh rule of the late 1990s, which included public stonings and limb amputations of alleged criminals, some of which took place in front of large crowds at a stadium.
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Well it does cut down on the recidivism rate.
Don’t see the problem here..maybe we should try this.
Biden’s New Taliban, same as the old Taliban.
Thanks Obama, Deep State and. Biden Administration for nothing, you _astatds.
But they seem friendly...
Like Joe said, businesslike and professional.
He likes the Taliban better than his own border patrol. Maybe he should hire them.
Just like the parable of the scorpion and the frog, it’s in the Taliban’s nature. It’s what they do.
Maybe we should invite the Taliban to Washington DC. They’d clean up the place in a hurry....
Better give them aide right away Joe.
“Businesslike and professionl”
Civilians sohuld have taken the weapons anf equipment we left behind while they had the chance.
Such a kinder, gentler and more professional bunch of people!
If they really decide to get tough they’ll send out mean tweets.
Very businesslike and professional of them.
Yep, they were mostly friendly. Not hostile at all now.
Where’s the photo?? I don’t want to read about it, I want to see it.
I could think of 30 Democrats in office or in Government that that may be a good idea so as to spread the message.
A person is “hanged”, a body is “hung”.
We should have armed the women of Afghanistan. Not their men.
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