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Afghanistan
Mullah Arrested For Selling Kidnapped Girls
2016-10-24
[Tolo News] The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said on Sunday they have tossed in the clink
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
a Mullah in Kabul
...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either....
who is suspected of helping another Mullah in the kidnapping of two maidens of tender years.

The two girls were kidnapped two weeks, but security forces managed to rescue them.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Kinnison began his slow infiltration of the sewer system...
the families of the kidnapped girls have called on government to arrest and prosecute the kidnappers.

Mullah Gulbuddin, the suspected kidnapper who was arrested, has reportedly confessed that he kidnapped five girls in the past and moved them to Khost district in Baghlan province.

He reportedly claims to have married two of them and gave three others to relatives in exchange for money. Three of his relatives allegedly each married a girl.

According to the families of the victims, the Mullah had been teaching the girls the Koran.

Mullah Gulbuddin was busy selling the girls each for 200,000 Afs when arrested by security forces.
There are 70 Afghan Afghani to one US dollar, according to the internet, so that's $2,857. A reasonable sum for a wife, one assumes...except for the kidnapping, of course.
Posted by:Fred

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