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Afghanistan
Kabul to trade Deadullah's carcass for hostages
2007-06-06
The Afghan government has agreed to hand over the body of a slain Taliban commander to his family in return for the release of five local health workers captured by the Islamist militants, an official said on Tuesday. The five were kidnapped in the southern province of Kandahar in March. Their captors originally demanded the release of Taliban prisoners as ransom and instead this week asked for the body of Taliban leader Mullah Dadullah who U.S.-led forces killed last month, the official said.

"Yesterday it was agreed to," said Abdullah Fahim, a health ministry advisor. "It's their right to have the body of their relative," he added.

President Hamid Karzai told "relevant authorities" to exchange the body of Mullah Dadullah, the top Taliban commander killed last month in southern Afghanistan, for a doctor, three nurses and a driver kidnapped by militants in southern Afghanistan two months ago, said Abdullah Fahim, a spokesman for the Public Health Ministry.

The health ministry spokesman said a person nominated by Dadullah's family was expected to arrive in Kandahar from Pakistan later on Tuesday to receive the body.
Kandahar Governor Asadullah Khalid has said that Dadullah was buried at a secret location near Kandahar. The health ministry spokesman said a person nominated by Dadullah's family was expected to arrive in Kandahar from Pakistan later on Tuesday to receive the body. The swap would be handled by local authorities in Kandahar province, Fahim said, which has seen some of the fiercest fighting between Taliban and U.S.-led forces.
Posted by:Fred

#6  I'd say, mix with nuclear waste and store in a nuclear waste dump. That way, no one will ever be able to visit.
Posted by: Eric Jablow   2007-06-06 22:49  

#5  if he hasn't been refrigerated, they can have the mess...yecchhhh
Posted by: Frank G   2007-06-06 08:38  

#4  "It's their right to have the body of their relative," he added.

No it isn't. The dead body of a terrorist should be declared state's evidence in the commission of a crime. The corpse should be disposed of in a bulk process that makes the remains unidentifiable. Preferably a group cremation or something like it. [Insert roast pig references here.] The penalty for participating in terrorist activities is that your body will not be buried according to religious traditions. No memorial for family or colleague to revere and mourn over, diddlysquat. This is one significant way to begin attaching a price tag to terrorism. I'd like to see it become standard practice.

In this particular case where, they were able to trade live bodies for a dead one, I'd go through with the trade and then confiscate or exhume the body as needed for evidence in an extortion plot, which is what it is. And no whingeing about cruel and unusual punishment either. After all, the relations of bomb vest murderers don't ask for the chunks and gobbets of flesh afterwards. (And if they do, they should be denied as well.) The criminal is already dead and was involved in inflicting cruel and unusual punishment as a matter of habit. Family members should feel compelled to dissuade relatives they know to be involved in terrorism if only so that they may finally bury them properly.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-06-06 02:20  

#3  Just give them the missing leg.
Posted by: Knuckles Chineger7423   2007-06-06 01:52  

#2  Rig it with a bomb like their buddies in Babylon.
Posted by: Seafarious   2007-06-06 01:32  

#1  Stick a beeper up his alimentary canal first, please...
Posted by: Sliper Lumumba5709   2007-06-06 00:51  

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