Taliban Justice Returns To Afghanistan

[wellst0nev0ter]

For the first time since losing power in December 2001, the Taliban has publicly executed a convicted murderer. Speaking from an undisclosed location, a Taliban spokesman told ABC News that the condemned murderer was executed in the presence of a large number of people in the town of Gizab in the Urozgan province. The prisoner was killed by gunshots fired by a relative of his victim.

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The spokesman said the execution shows the level of Taliban control in Urozgan. There the Taliban has the power to arrest and try criminals and publicly implement decisions of its Shariah courts.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/05/taliban_justice.html

Mission Accomplished :sarcasm:

[heidler1]

1. Gingrich stated that the reason Iraq is screwed up is that we failed

to use the successful tactics that were/are used in Afghanistan. LOL

[rodeodance]

2. and both Condi and Laura said Afgan was to be model for Iraqi women's

rights.

[rodeodance]

3. slamic right of Qissas

The heirs of the victim had refused to forgive the man, Badshah Khan, or accept blood-money despite repeated requests from the family of the convicted murderer. "The members of the Shariah court then gave the go-ahead signal to the heirs of Fateh Khan to exercise their Islamic right of Qissas and execute Badshah Khan," the spokesman explained.........

[rodeodance]

4. slamic right of Qissas

The heirs of the victim had refused to forgive the man, Badshah Khan, or accept blood-money despite repeated requests from the family of the convicted murderer. "The members of the Shariah court then gave the go-ahead signal to the heirs of Fateh Khan to exercise their Islamic right of Qissas and execute Badshah Khan," the spokesman explained.........

[Psephos]

5. This seems like an argument for more intervention, not less

What's with the NATO peacekeepers, btw?

I don't have any problem saying the Taliban is bad news and that keeping them down is a good use of multinational resources.

Peace.

[BrotherBuzz]

6. British are stepping up after Bush* grew bored with Afghanistan

I understand British troops will rotate out of Iraq and be deployed to Afghanistan. Bush* grew tired with that damn country and has forgotten about it like it never existed. Has he ever finished one thing in his miserable life? Miserable Failure!

[daleo]

7. Canadians are busy getting killed around Kandahar

A few thousand foreign troops just can't effectively patrol a country of 20 million, I guess.

[CRK7376]

8. It's absolutely the Wild West

out there. It's the end of the world, I know because I was in the Uruzgan Provice in 2002-03. Gazib is in the northern part of the province well up the river from where I was operating out of a firebases in Tarin Kowt and Deh Rawood. Tons of weapons, everybody carried them along with RPGs. Jan Mohammad was the governor and we had his approval to issue weapons cards to those he deemed worthy of having weapons...in other words, everybody. Plus of course he did not approve of the poppy fields, but they were everywhere along with huge fields of hashish....

Uruzgan Province is Taliban central if you ask me...They are eveywhere and were a constant thorn in our side as we were to them I suspect. And now the Dutch get to operate out of Uruzgan Province. Best of Luck to the Dutch. They will need it there at the end of the world.....

[IndianaGreen]

9. Indiana National Guard is in Afghanistan risking their necks

on a mission that would have been over years ago had Bush not been in a hurry to pull the troops out to use them on the criminal invasion of Iraq.