Courtesy of the Taliban...
And people in Canada would like us to abandon the Afghanis to the Taliban?
SHOT and hanged from the branch of a fruit tree, the mother and her teenage son were summarily tried, sentenced and executed for no bigger a crime than delivering clean laundry to a relative.
The fate of the 45-year-old woman and her 13-year-old son on Monday shocked even war-hardened locals in southern Afghanistan, where people are killed daily in the raging battle between the Taleban and the Nato-backed Government.
“These two people had been to visit a relative in the town of Musa Qala to deliver some clean laundry. He was working as a policeman. When they returned home the Taleban accused them of being spies and hanged them from a mulberry tree,” Amir Muhammad Akhunzada, the deputy governor of Helmand, told The Times.
He said that after the murder villagers in Daigh, five miles (8km) north of Musa Qala, were warned that they would share the same fate if they collaborated with the enemy.
In this case the enemy are the Afghan government forces and the British Army supporting them, who have been locked in clashes this summer that have killed four British soldiers and scores of Taleban militants.
posted by GayandRight @ 3:23 PM
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And, where, might I ask are the screams from the feminists about this?? Guess they are too busy lobbying the government from more money for daycare to be worried about the really downtrodden women in Afghanistan.
Looks like foreign policy will be a major player in the next Federal Election.
Will the Liberals be able to adopt foreign policies that they can all unite behind? Will they battle it out with the NDP to find out which party is further to the left in foreign affairs? According to many insiders, the Liberals are lurching ever-more to the left and may abandon the so-called Paul Martin centre-right legacy that Michael Ignatieff represents.
I don't think it's a matter of getting out of Afghanistan, it's a matter of getting out of a fucked up and ineffectual policy. NATO is trying to make the country into something it has never been through ways which don't fit with any local characteristics. You want to fight the Taliban? Talk to the tribal chieftans, give the villagers weapons. Take away terror through empowerment.
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