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| Taliban Deny Involvement in Woman's Public Execution |
| 2012-07-13 |
| [An Nahar] Afghanistan's Taliban faceless myrmidons have denied involvement in the recent public execution of a woman captured in a horrific video that caused international outrage. "Nope. Nope. Wudn't us." Afghan authorities blamed the Taliban Islamists for killing the 22-year-old woman for adultery, as was common during their rule of the country between 1996 and 2001. "When've we ever done somethin' like that before?" She was rubbed out as dozens of men cheered in a village about 100 kilometers north of the capital Kabul. "Yay! Hurrah! Admiral Akbar!" But the Taliban said in a statement on their website Thursday that they had investigated the incident and found the woman was "killed by the decision of the local residents". "It wuz them! We had nuttin' to do widdit!" "The involvement of the... mujahideen as alleged by some officials of the Kabul government is absolutely untrue and baseless," the statement said. "We wuz takin' a leak when it happened..." 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... condemned the execution as un-Islamic and unforgivable and security forces have launched a manhunt for those responsible. But not for the guys hollering 'Adminral Akbar.' The U.S. commander of NATO's ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... 130,000 troops in Afghanistan, General John Allen, offered to help local security forces track down and capture the men involved in what he called "an atrocity of unspeakable cruelty". |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Kinda makes nation building in Afghanistan look like a dubious proposition unless you're willing to spend a hundred or so years there ruthlessly stamping out that superstition of theirs. Muhammad's armies did it chop chop (no pun intended). However, his methods aren't available to us. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2012-07-13 17:21 |
| #3 After all, the Taliban are a product of Afghan culture. So if it wasn't them it was people in that country who are at least sympathetic with Taliban goals and methods. Kinda makes nation building in Afghanistan look like a dubious proposition unless you're willing to spend a hundred or so years there ruthlessly stamping out that superstition of theirs. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-07-13 13:51 |
| #2 The Taliban, along with dozens of its ubiquitous supporters. |
| Posted by: gorb 2012-07-13 12:04 |
| #1 Taliban rules 1 Deny 2. Claim someone else did it 3. Claim "It's Allah;s " Law 4 claim "it's not us" 5 repeat the above |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2012-07-13 00:13 |