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Afghanistan
Afghans demand reprieve for killer of French troops
2012-11-27
[Dawn] Student demonstrators on Monday demanded that an Afghan soldier sentenced to death for killing five French soldiers be spared execution.

A military court last week rejected an appeal by the soldier, Abdul Sabor, and the Afghan authorities have since executed 14 death row prisoners in two groups including several Taliban hard boys.

Unconfirmed Afghan media reports have suggested that Sabor is among a third group that President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
has approved for execution. Karzai's office has refused to comment on the issue.

So-called green-on-blue attacks have spiralled this year, with a total of 61 NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
soldiers killed by members of the Afghan cops, fuelling distrust between the allies in the war against the Taliban.

Sabor, who killed five French soldiers on January 20 while they were jogging within their base in the eastern province of Kapisa, is the first Afghan convicted by a court of carrying out such an attack.

The French casualties prompted La Belle France to withdraw its combat forces from Afghanistan earlier than planned. It ended its combat mission in Kapisa last week.

About 500 university students blocked a key road linking the eastern town of Jalalabad to the capital Kabul and hollered poorly rhymed slogans against the government, an AFP news hound said.

"We demand the president withdraw a decree that approves the execution of Abdul Sabor, the soldier who is accused of killing five French troops," a statement by the demonstrators said.

The students demanded an end to the execution of "all political prisoners", a reference to the Talibs held in Afghan prisons.

They also burned Israeli and US flags in protest at the attacks on Paleostinians in the Gazoo Strip during eight days of violence that left six Israelis and 166 Paleostinians dead.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Great opportunity for a french platoon to machine gun the protesting students. Ask any survivors if they see the similarities, then shoot them again.
Posted by: Rob06   2012-11-27 17:00  

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