Kabul - The Afghan government said on Monday that police had rescued 41 children from becoming jacket wallahs as they were about to be smuggled across the mountains into Pakistain.| And as usual, the news is brought to us by some third-line MSM agency and not the New York Times... |
| To be fair, we rarely check to see what the New York Times reports -- while they have a few outstanding journalists on their payroll, the majority seem to see themselves as paid propagandists. |
... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
He told AFP their families "were fooled by terrorists", who promised to send them to seminaries in Pakistain where they would be "brainwashed" and "prepared for suicide kabooms against Afghan and international troops in Afghanistan".
Police set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock the four suspects and the children were returned to their families, the spokesperson said.
The Afghan government has accused madrassas in Pakistain of teaching violent extremism and sponsoring Islamist violence, a legacy of Afghanistan's 1979-89 US and Pak-sponsored mujahideen uprising against Soviet troops.
On February 12, Afghan authorities announced the arrest of two 10-year-old would-be suicide bombers allegedly planning to attack Afghan and international forces in the southern province of Kandahar, the Taliban's birthplace.
They had been reportedly released last August, along with 18 other children, after receiving a pardon from Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid
Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai
... 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
Pashtunface 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...
The Taliban, which is leading a 10-year insurgency against Karzai's government and 130 000 US-led foreign troops, have reportedly used children and teenagers to conduct attacks on security forces.