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| Afghanistan |
| 30 leftover Pak jihadis kicked out |
| 2002-04-25 |
| Afghanistan's interim government said Thursday it released 30 Pakistanis arrested last year while fighting alongside the deposed Taliban. Shazada Masood, adviser to the minister of tribal and border affairs who met with the prisoners Thursday morning before their release, said they did not appear to have any links to al-Qaeda. "They are old men who were fighting with the Taliban. They are not convicted of any exact crime," he said. "They were simply deceived by the Taliban. The Taliban persuaded them to fight." Yeah, well tell them to go home and tell their grandkiddies that jihad ain't all it's cracked up to be. The 30 men were being held in a prison in Kabul. They were arrested in northern Afghanistan as the Taliban's rule collapsed, Masood said. The experience probably hasn't been, shall we say, pleasant? Masood told the men Thursday morning that they would be released. "They were so happy," he said. Nope. Not pleasant at all. "I don't wanna see yew boys back wagin' jihad in these parts again, mind yew. I see yore skinny ol' butts, y'all in biiiig trouble." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |