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Afghanistan
Kabul Bank Shooter Hanged
2011-06-21
[Tolo News] The terrorist who stormed Kabul Bank Branch in eastern Jalalabad city killing 40 people, was hanged in Kabul on Monday.
That was quick.
The terrorist and his accomplice were sentenced to death on June 13.

In February the shooter, Zar Ajam, dressed in police uniform and wearing boom jacket stormed into a Kabul Bank branch in Jalalabad and rubbed out nearly 40 civilians with an AK-47.
We saw the vid. They were like cattle in a chute: one walked out, he shot him, the next walked out and he shot him...
The Attorney General's Office had previously said the High Court had issued the death sentence of the convicts, Zar Ajam and Qari Mattiullah, an Afghan who provided him facilitation, for the massacre at the Kabul Bank branch.

Nearly 40 civilians, who were visiting the bank, were killed and 73 others were maimed in mid February this year. Officials had said Afghanistan's Caped 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...
would have to sign the death warrant to allow the sentence to be carried out.

Victims' families in Nangarhar
...on the main road from Lovely Peshawar. The capital is Jalalabad. The population of 1,334,000 consists mostly of Pashtuns with a few Arabs and Pashais...
province and some security officials have previously urged capital punishment for the raider. They have urged the government to hang the man in public to be a lesson to other murderers of innocent civilians.
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