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Afghanistan
Taliban execute woman
2012-07-07
KABUL (Reuters) - A man Afghan officials say is a member of the Taliban shot dead a woman accused of adultery in front of a crowd near Kabul, a video obtained by Reuters showed, a sign that the austere Islamist group dictates law even near the Afghan capital.
Business as usual for the Talibs...
In the three-minute video, a turban-clad man approaches a woman kneeling in the dirt and shoots her five times at close range with an automatic rifle, to cheers of jubilation from the 150 or so men watching in a village in Parwan province.

"Allah warns us not to get close to adultery because it's the wrong way," another man says as the shooter gets closer to the woman. "It is the order of Allah that she be executed".
What happened to the man with whom she consorted? What did Allah say to do to him? Ah, right...
Provincial Governor Basir Salangi said the video, obtained on Saturday, was shot a week ago in the village of Qimchok in Shinwari district, about an hour's drive from Kabul.

Such rare public punishment was a painful reminder to Afghan authorities of the Taliban's 1996-2001 period in power, and it raised concern about the treatment of Afghan women 11 years into the NATO-led war against Taliban insurgents.

"When I saw this video, I closed my eyes ... The woman was not guilty; the Taliban are guilty," Salangi told Reuters.

When the unnamed woman, most of her body tightly wrapped in a shawl, fell sideways after being shot several times in the head, the spectators chanted: "Long live the Afghan mujahideen! (Islamist fighters)", a name the Taliban use for themselves.

The Taliban could not be reached for comment.
No comment is needed...
Afghan women have won back basic rights in education, voting and work since the Taliban, who deemed them un-Islamic for women, were toppled by U.S.-backed Afghan forces in late 2001. But fears are rising among Afghan women, some lawmakers and rights activists that such freedoms could be traded away as the Afghan government and the United States pursue talks with the Taliban to secure a peaceful end to the war.
But Champ wants a peace settlement, and the Taliban view Champ as a sucker, so...
Violence against women has increased sharply in the past year, according to Afghanistan's independent human rights commission. Activists say there is waning interest in women's rights on the part of President Hamid Karzai's government.
Karzai's "interest" in women's rights was a front to sucker the rubes in the west. It worked, too...
"After 10 years (of foreign intervention), and only a few kilometres from Kabul... how could this happen in front of all these people?" female lawmaker Fawzia Koofi said of the public execution in Parwan.

"This is happening under a government that claims to have made so much progress in women's rights, claims to have changed women's lives, and this is unacceptable. It is a huge step backwards," said Koofi, a campaigner for girls' education who wants to run in the 2014 presidential election.

Salangi said two Taliban commanders were sexually involved with the woman in Parwan, either through rape or romantically, and decided to torture her and then kill her to settle a dispute between the two of them.
This answers the earlier question, what happened to the men involved...
"They are outlaws, murderers, and like savages they killed the woman," he said, adding that the Taliban exerted considerable sway in his province.
Posted by:Steve White

#6  Vortigen, of course it's our fault. If we hadn't invaded Afghanistan and more or less kicked the Taliban out, this sort of thing would be so common it wouldn't be worth reporting.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2012-07-07 18:08  

#5  Kill the women, rape the sheep and goats, call the media and blame the Americans.
Posted by: Vortigern Hupoluse1541   2012-07-07 17:50  

#4  ...But it's the Republicans who have 'declared war on women."

The most reactionary conservative has never contemplated this horror. I eagerly await the liberal condemnation...

What? Oh, yeah. Sorry. Forgot who I was talking about.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2012-07-07 16:52  

#3  Step 1: Call all the women and children to a meeting about 5 miles out of town.
Step 2: Arclight
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2012-07-07 16:21  

#2  This tactic does reduce the opportunities for future adultury. And once they shoot ALL the women they'll have to consort with each other. The problem will end. Tough on the poor women though.
Posted by: Glenmore   2012-07-07 16:14  

#1  that entire village and all the men shown in the video need to have the same punishment - as accessories to murder - execution. Raze the village and salt the ground
Posted by: Frank G   2012-07-07 15:27  

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