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| Afghanistan | |
| Taliban stop bus- massacre 30 | |
| 2008-10-19 | |
| Taliban militants stopped a bus traveling on Afghanistan's main highway through a wild and dangerous part of the country's south, captured some 50 people on board and slaughtered around 30 of them, officials said Sunday. any kittens, fluffy bunnies or ducks? No? Just civilians, ya say?
Officials offered varying death tolls from the attack, which occurred in an area of Afghanistan that government forces cannot safely travel to without heavy military protection. That may explain why news of the Thursday hijacking did not emerge until Sunday. The Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman, Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi, said 31 people were killed. Six of the dead were beheaded in a separate area of Maiwand from where the other 25 bodies were found, he said. Khan offered a higher toll, saying around 40 civilians were killed. He said his information came from "local sources." It was not possible to reconcile the differing figures. The spokesman for Kandahar's provincial governor said officials would hold a news conference later Sunday. Azimi dismissed the Taliban claim that 27 soldiers had been killed. "Our soldiers travel by military convoy, not in civilian buses. And we have military air transportation," Azimi said. ahhh so they were civilians. Yet, the AP puts that earlier paragraph up first, so youze think it's the truth if you don't read further. Bastids Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi said militants looked at the documents of those traveling on the bus, released all the civilians and killed 27 soldiers. Taliban spokespersons often exaggerate their claims but occasionally their information matches up with the government version of events. Khan said two buses had been traveling together and that the militants tried to stop the first one but failed. He said the insurgents fired at the first bus and killed one child on board. brave brave lions o' Islam | |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #3 That dead child was really a colonel in disguise. /The Talibs No doubt the taliban determined that those massacred must have Afghan Army by their insufficiently devout beards. How many of the massacred were women? /Something the MSM would never ask |
| Posted by: ed 2008-10-19 18:30 |
| #2 Gorb: Soldiers and not one rifle among them? Frank G: brave brave O'Most Holy Rabid Lions of Islam, strut your Shit now, fore Later ye shall Whine, Snivel and Snot when the Tables are Turned..! Please Lord, allow McCain & Palin to win! :) |
| Posted by: RD 2008-10-19 17:06 |
| #1 27 Soldiers and not one rifle among them? |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-10-19 15:45 |