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India-Pakistan
Taliban behead soldier to avenge Bajaur strike
2008-05-17
Authorities found the beheaded body of a paramilitary soldier in the Bajaur Agency on Friday, close to where a United States missile strike left at least 20 people dead.

A note left on the body of soldier Aftab Gul in the Pusht Bazaar Salarzai area read that the beheading was retaliation for the US bombing of Damadola. The note, signed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, also warned tribal elders that they could face similar action if they co-operated with authorities.

The body has been sent to GulÂ’s hometown of Mansehra, local sources told Daily Times.

Also on Friday, around 100 students belonging to various madrassas held a demonstration in Multan, and burned effigies of US President George W Bush and President Pervez Musharraf. Hundreds of people also rallied across the NWFP and Peshawar after the Friday prayers to protest the missile attack, witnesses and police told AFP.
Posted by:Fred

#6  Beheading? The State Dept says: don't link this scimitar stuff to Islam. What then?
Posted by: McZoid   2008-05-17 18:57  

#5  "Yar! We can be as brutal as AQI! We'll do it MORE brutal and be even MORE successful!!"

Fooking geniuses

Posted by: Frank G   2008-05-17 18:45  

#4  That will win friends and influence enemies. How did that strategy work out for you so far Talibunnies. You have gotten your dicks dinged up pretty badly so far as I can tell.
Posted by: JohnQC   2008-05-17 18:41  

#3  Time to start napalming these little get-togethers. The locals both love and fear the Taliban. Time to teach them that the US is also a nation not to get angry, because we can be pretty darned fearful when we're angry.

Perv played a very dangerous game of trying to appease all factions, and in the end, pleased no one. Now he's neck deep in boiling water. The rest of the Pakistanis are so brainwashed they can't think, and let their imams do the thinking for them. I don't think they'd be equally as likely to also bleed for the imams, if it came to that, but I may be wrong. Again, it's time for Pakistan to disappear from the world's maps, to be replaced by both an expanded Afghanistan and an enlarged India.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2008-05-17 14:44  

#2  Wrong comparison, Glenmore. Taliban is the was-once-wants-to-be-more oppressor and uncivilized at that.

As for Ghandi, he is a tad overrated, IMHO. Comes across as a somewhat a hypocrite.
Posted by: twobyfour   2008-05-17 14:07  

#1  What a difference between the way Ghandi (successfully) overthrew oppression by a civilized power and the way the Taliban are trying to protest offenses by the US. There must be something different in the culture of the Taliban from the Indians; what could it be?
Posted by: Glenmore   2008-05-17 06:19  

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