GS Taliban supporters, what do you say about this?

bullehshah · October 3, 2007, 1:21pm

Afghan teenager with US dollars hanged
By NOOR KHAN, Associated Press Writer Mon Oct 1, 12:04 PM ET

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Taliban militants hanged a teenager in southern Afghanistan because he had U.S. money in his pocket, and they stuffed five $1 bills in his mouth as a warning to others not to use dollars, police said Monday. Taliban militants elsewhere killed eight police.The 15-year-old boy was hanged from a tree on Sunday in Helmand, the most violent province in the country and the world’s No. 1 poppy-growing region.
“The Taliban warned villagers that they would face the same punishment if they were caught with dollars,” said Wali Mohammad, the district police chief in Sangin.
Dollars are commonly used in Afghanistan alongside the afghani, the local currency, although the U.S. currency is more commonly seen in larger cities where international organizations are found.
Militants often justify their attacks and executions as a response to U.S. meddling in Afghan affairs.
In Sangin on Saturday, the Taliban shot and killed another man who had sought farm assistance and seeds from an international aid program, Mohammad said. The militants accused him of being a spy.
Taliban insurgents in Ghazni province, meanwhile, ambushed a police convoy Sunday, killing eight officers, said Abdul Khaliq Nikmal, spokesman for the provincial governor.
He said Afghan authorities have sent police reinforcements to the area and are meeting with U.S. military officials to plan a counterattack.
Violence has surged in Afghanistan in recent months. Last week alone violence killed more than 270 dead, including 165 militants killed in two large battles in the south and 30 people killed in a suicide bombing on an army bus in Kabul.
The U.S. military launched a new “Most Wanted” campaign offering rewards of up to $200,000 for information leading to the capture of 12 Taliban and al-Qaida leaders.
Posters and billboards are going up around eastern Afghanistan with the names and pictures of the 12, with reward amounts ranging from $20,000 to $200,000.
“We’re trying to get more visibility on these guys like the FBI did with the mob,” said Lt. Col. Rob Pollock, a U.S. officer at the main American base in Bagram. “They operate the same way the mob did, they stay in hiding.”
The list does not include internationally known names who already have large price tags on their heads like al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden — who has evaded U.S. capture since 2001 despite a $25 million bounty — or Taliban leader Mullah Omar with a $10 million reward.
Instead the list is filled with local insurgent cell leaders responsible for roadside and suicide bomb attacks.
President Hamid Karzai said he would be willing to meet personally with Taliban leader Mullah Omar and factional warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of Hezb-i-Islami, in exchange for peace.
On Sunday, Karzai’s spokesman, said there is “serious debate” among some Taliban fighters about laying down arms.
But the Taliban said international troops must first leave the country before any talks are held, a position mirrored by Hezb-i-Islami in an announcement Monday.

“Negotiations with Karzai have no worth in the presence of American forces,” said Haroon Zarghun, a purported spokesman for Hezb-i-Islami.
“Karzai has, in fact, no authority in the presence of American troops. Talks would be waste of time in such a situation,” he told The Associated Press by telephone. “If the United States announces to leave Afghanistan, then we will be ready to hold talks.”
Insurgency-related violence has killed more than 4,600 people so far this year, most of them insurgents, according to an AP tally of figures from Afghan and Western officials.
In Helmand’s Reg district, Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces, acting on intelligence reports, were pursuing militants hiding out in the area when they came under attack, the coalition said. The troops called in airstrikes and fought the militants in a gunbattle. More than 20 militants were killed, but there were no reports of civilians hurt. It was not possible to verify the death toll independently.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071001/ap_on_re_as/afghan_violence

Is this the type of Islamic government that the delusional morons want? Is this Islam to you?

STONECOLD · October 3, 2007, 1:53pm

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wanting or not....we seem to be going that way!!

shriek11 · October 3, 2007, 4:27pm

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It is kind of funny that these same taliban leaders wouldn't loathe about accepting but loads of this US money. They accepted it in the eighties and the "rapid success" of the US war in afghanistan had to with the CIA $$$ bags given to defect taliban commanders..

Navtech · October 3, 2007, 7:18pm

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my god, they are monsters. i hate taleban

Mr_Fraudia · October 3, 2007, 7:25pm

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there are taleban supporters on GS?

bullehshah · October 3, 2007, 7:30pm

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From what I've noticed in my month-long existence on the board, it is safe to say yes there are plenty.

ravage · October 3, 2007, 10:25pm

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bullehshah, all your purported opponents are either not active in WA, or just not prescribing to the beliefs you attribute to them. You keep opening these threads asking "GS Taliban Supporters" this and that, and Im sure you have certain opponents in mind. Unless you can produce those "GS Taliban Supporters" on the threads you create they make for very trite, one sided discussions, involving you against.. basically nobody.

I'd suggest you broaden your target audience beyond your pet polemic adversaries.

system · October 4, 2007, 4:14am

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Taliban scum... Kill these dogs one by one...

simplyme · October 4, 2007, 1:25pm

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I am not a supporter of Taliban, but would not mind in criticising US policies in Afghanistan. The Americans promised the moon to the poor Afghans and ditched them when the Russians left Afghanistan...