Posted on 10/24/2001 10:56:27 PM PDT by Scalia Rules
Oct 24, 2001
Taliban Detains 100 People for Questioning, Reportedly Threatens to Execute U.S. Agents
The Associated Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have detained more than 100 people in the southern city of Kandahar and threatened to execute anyone helping the United States, a private news agency reported Wednesday.
"As per Mullah (Mohammed) Omar's decree, anyone found working for enemies will be executed after a summary trial," the South Asian Dispatch Agency quoted Mullah Abdul Razzak, an official of the Taliban interior ministry, as saying.
On Wednesday, Taliban soldiers armed with rocket launchers and Kalashnikov rifles drove pickup trucks through the deserted and bomb-battered streets of Kandahar - headquarters of their religious movement. The soldiers stopped vehicles for spot checks and questioned passengers, the news agency said.
"We have detained more than 100 suspects," Razzak told the agency. "They are being interrogated to ascertain that they are not involved in activities that could affect the Taliban during wartime."
More than half of the 500,000 residents of Kandahar reportedly have fled to escape the U.S.-led bombing that began Oct. 7.
Talban soldiers are visiting residential neighborhoods, ordering people to report to armories to pick up weapons to fight the Americans, the agency said. The Taliban disarmed the Afghan population soon after seizing power in 1996 in attempt to restore peace in the war-ravaged country.
President Bush ordered the attacks on Afghanistan after the Taliban refused to hand over Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.
"Talban soldiers are visiting residential neighborhoods, ordering people to report to armories to pick up weapons to fight the Americans, the agency said. The Taliban disarmed the Afghan population soon after seizing power in 1996 in attempt to restore peace in the war-ravaged country."
Also, Prof. Glenn H. Reynolds of the University of Tennessee Law School points out, at InstaPundit.com:
"One reason why they haven't faced a lot of internal resistance is that they confiscated all privately owned weapons years ago as part of a self-proclaimed effort to make Afghanistan peaceful. Didn't work too well. Now they're ordering people to come pick up weapons to defend the country against Americans. I predict that that won't work well, either."
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