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| Afghanistan |
| Taliban release Indian engineers |
| 2003-12-24 |
| Two Indian engineers kidnapped by suspected Taliban rebels nearly three weeks ago in one of a spate of attacks on workers linked to a U.S.-backed road project have been freed, a senior Interior Ministry official said Wednesday. The engineers were abducted Dec. 6 on a shopping trip in southern Zabul province, where they were working on the refurbishment of the Kabul-Kandahar highway, the country’s main transport artery. It was unclear if the government had made any concessions to the kidnappers to secure their release. On Monday, an official in southern Zabul province, which the road runs through, said Taliban rebels had sent a letter demanding the release of 55 of their prisoners in return for the engineers. |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #5 Not your spelling Greg!. Just noticed that it's Christmas day in ... Islamabad! - so a very merry Christmas day to all those Jihadis out there. Also a big shout to all those in Tehran, hope you all get the Christmas presents you deserve guys!. |
| Posted by: Tony (UK) 2003-12-24 2:39:04 PM |
| #4 Tony: Mine, or Beeb's? On concessions, my thoughts exactly. cttoi, no thanks to Noah Webster, mere minefield-crossing shit-ass luck no words like color, caliber, defense, or their ilk, appear in my comment (:-)> Aah, Beeb story has (same link) an UPDATE Mr [Afghan Interior Minister Ali Ahmad] Jalali said the men were released late on Tuesday. Another stylistic idiosyncrasy just noticed. Beeb's consistently 'proper' reference to, in this case, "Mr Jalali," much as NYT doing same story would consistently do "Mr. Jalali." Do UK versions of Windows spell-check accept that? US version says "Mr." is a word, "Mr" is not. |
| Posted by: Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-24 8:50:04 AM |
| #3 I thought I read somewhere that the Affie officials are saying it was just a bunch of guys hanging out with Kalishies and not the Taliban. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2003-12-24 6:07:03 AM |
| #2 I'm very glad to see these guys released. A few days ago our comments (including mine) were all 'no negotiations', with some very interesting twists on 'coercing' the Taliban to let them free (OP's thoughts on aerial ballet being particularly enjoyable!) so I really do hope that no concessions were made. Spelling looks OK to me Glenn ;) |
| Posted by: Tony (UK) 2003-12-24 4:49:16 AM |
| #1 Almost identical story, almost exactly same data on al-Beeb, but titled 'Taleban' free abducted Indians Are 'they' just using 'scarequotes' to show they cannot 'spell' Taliban? But their South Asia News Page also has a faux headline Pakistan 'kills' Chinese militant linked to a story posted here yesterday where he was reported as 'shot dead.' They may be even more unsure of their orthography than we could imagine. Those are common simple words. And I'd damned well better not have any spelling errors in this comment. |
| Posted by: Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-24 3:14:49 AM |