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  • Bin Laden's fingerprints seen on ruins of Bamiyan Buddhas

    10/21/2006 12:59:28 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 35 replies · 1,559+ views
    AFP on Yahoo ^ | 10/21/06 | Selim Saheb Ettaba
    BAMIYAN, Afghanistan (AFP) - In a huge cavity dug into the side of a cliff, workers search through the rubble to exhume the remains of the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan. At the scene of the crime carried out in 2001 all evidence points to Osama bin Laden as the mastermind. "This is the terrorism of the Taliban," says Rahim, an official at the work site in front of the empty niche of the biggest of the two statues, one of which stood 55 metres (182 feet) tall and the other 38 metres. Wearing a hard hat and a mask over...
  • Iran girl gets 100 lashes for sex

    02/24/2005 1:55:19 PM PST · by Cyrus the Great · 74 replies · 4,840+ views
    BBC ^ | 2/24/05 | BBC
    A teenage girl and two young men in Iran have been sentenced to lashes for having sex. The court dismissed the girl's claim that we was raped. It said she had sex of her own free will, the official Iran Daily newspaper reported. The girl was sentenced to 100 lashes because her accusations of rape and kidnap could have landed her partners a death penalty, the Tehran judge said. Sex outside marriage is illegal in Iran and capital punishment can be imposed. The young men in the case were sentenced to 30 and 40 lashes each. Rights violations The Iran...