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| Haji Gilani Gunned Down in Afghanistan |
| 2003-04-05 |
| A close ally of Afghan President Hamid Karzai was gunned down in southern Afghanistan in an attack provincial officials blamed on the Taliban Saturday. Haji Gilani and his nephew were killed outside their home in the town of Deh Rawood on Thursday night, said Dad Mullah, a spokesman for the Uruzgan provincial government. He said six gunmen shot the two men and fled. Police said they were investigating; but Mullah said there was no immediate evidence of a personal feud and he suspected Taliban operatives were behind the killing. But Karzai's spokesman said a tribal feud may have been the motive. They're Pashtuns, after all... "This was not a political murder. There was some enmity, some personal differences between two villages or two tribes," presidential spokesman Sayed Fazel Akbar said. Gilani was the first man to give Karzai shelter in the province of Uruzgan as he launched his anti-Taliban revolt weeks before the religious militia collapsed under heavy U.S. bombing in late 2001. That's sufficient reason for the Talibs to take Dire Revenge®... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #4 Anonn,"Freedom of Religion"is part and parcile of who we are,it is even gaurantied in our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Can you say that? Buttheads Like Pat Robertson don't speak for me. I am a Born-agin Christian,and I don't care how you worship God,what name you call God,or if you even believe in the One,True God.That is your buisness. |
| Posted by: raptor 2003-04-06 07:27:40 |
| #3 Man, non-Westerners reeeally need to learn something about how religious tolerance is not even a question to most Americans - something most of us don't even THINK about - we just DO it... They might want to be careful when looking at us though, they MIGHT learn something... imagine that... |
| Posted by: Steve W. 2003-04-05 23:41:58 |
| #2 Anonon, Oh, man, it's bad enough with the Islamonazis all paranoid and flipping out. Don't tell me now that Hindus are getting all flaky and weird. The "Great White Father" in Washington loves everybody equally. Hindu, Sikh, Moslem, Christian, Jew, Jainist, Buddhist, Confucian,...everybody!!! So let's all put away the bombs and the Kalashnikovs and play nice, okay? Sheesh! |
| Posted by: JDB 2003-04-05 21:01:35 |
| #1 The neo-Talibanis are nothing without their Pakistan backers: Jamaat-i-Islami. The JI/MMA controlled provinces are loaded with American jihad subsidy cash. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_4-4-2003_pg7_11 President Bush despises India because that country's major religion - Hinduism - was not founded by Abraham. Americans will pay for his bigotry, in lives. |
| Posted by: Anonon 2003-04-05 13:48:34 |