Too bad this graphic is no longer appropriate:
"I'm Karzai, Karzai and feelin' so lonely..."
Posted on 05/08/2016 8:09:11 AM PDT by huldah1776
KABUL — Afghan officials hanged six Taliban prisoners Sunday, a resumption of executions in the war that makes good on President Ashraf Ghani’s recent promise to deal harshly with insurgents now that hopes for peace negotiations have evaporated.
The six prisoners were hanged in the morning inside the Pul-i-Charkhi prison — a detention facility on the outskirts of Kabul that is notorious among Afghans as the site of massive executions by the country’s then-communist regime during the 1980s.
Among the inmates were two Taliban members who helped assassinate two senior government officials in recent years, officials said.
One prisoner facilitated a 2011 suicide bomb attack on Burhanuddin Rabbani, who served as temporary president in Afghanistan after U.S. forces toppled the Taliban government 10 years earlier.
The second Taliban member was involved in the 2009 suicide bomb assassination of Abdullah Laghmani, the deputy chief of the country’s National Directorate of Security.
Ghani administration officials did not provide details about the other prisoners. But the Pul-i-Charkhi prison is where Anas Haqqani — son of Haqqani network founder Jalaluddin Haqqani — has been held since 2014.
Government officials said all of the executed prisoners had been found guilty of crimes against “civilian national security.”
Taliban leaders have recently warned that it will respond to executions by killing government prisoners in their captivity. On Sunday, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the group has yet to decide how to respond to the recent hangings.
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Not enough to hang Muslims. You have to publicly bury them in a pig skin.
Any rationale for continued American involvement in this bizarre quagmire has long since passed. Its up to the locals to work out their own consensus.
What about hanging with pig hide?
Six???
To use Rush reasoning with why not make minimum wage 50 or 200 or 10000 dollars an hour?
Why not 60, why not 600, why not 6000, how many is enough?
(For this sitting)
As to the poppy fields, the US Gov had no problem dropping agent orange on US to ‘defoliate’ why not take out the poppy fields.
AO in Vietnam did a better job eliminating US - in the long term. There is no way to gauge how many lives were ‘saved’ by AO but the number being treated for the after shock are tremendous.
The executions will continue until moral improves.
The Taliban had all but eradicated the poppy harvest when the US arrived.
Good. 6 is a start.
They should rename it Pull-a-Neckee prison.
Unfortunately, both the hangers and the hangees are muslim. The hangers would not want to soil their own hands with pigs.
Why waste time handing them, just shoot them
"I'm Karzai, Karzai and feelin' so lonely..."
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