* From the “poverty breeds terrorism” department:
(Quqnoos)-THE TALIBAN’S former foreign minister, Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil, has said the US should release Taliban suspects from Guantanemo prison and unfreeze their assets if the Afghan governemnt is serious about holding peace-talks with the rebel group.
* Peace in our time alert: from the Democracy under sharia department:
Karzai even went to the extent of inviting the renegade leader, who is one of the most wanted persons on Washington’s terrorist list, to join his ministry.
* Are the Taliban “The Enemy” or Not?
* Mullah Omar Omar offers deal to U.S. on withdrawal
* Pakistan: Talibs vs the people. Civil war in the making?
* Najibullah, one of Karzai’s predecessors installed in Kabul by the Russians, ended up hanging from a Crane with his dick in his mouth. Karzai would be well advised to kiss the feet of his American masters every day that he’s alive.
Baitullah Mehsood passes away Updated at: 0107 PST, Wednesday, October 01, 2008
PESHAWAR; The head of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, Baitullah Mehsood has passed away here. He was suffering from high blood pressure and kidney disease, according to Geo News.
* Update: The dementi came instantly: apparently he’s still alive…
A picture of a Taleban fighter in the uniform of a dead French soldier drew anger in France yesterday as the army came under new fire over its conduct in an ambush that killed ten paratroopers in Afghanistan last month.
(Charles Platiau)
Twenty-three soldiers were injured in the Taleban attack that killed ten of their colleagues and has fuelled calls for French forces to leave Afghanistan
Paris Match magazine was condemned by politicians, the military and soldiers’ families for publishing a spread of Taleban posing with their French trophies from the battle, east of Kabul, on August 18. These included Famas assault rifles, helmets, body armour, walkie-talkies and a wristwatch that the Taleban asked the magazine to return to the family of the soldier who had owned it.
* Never question the loyalty of your fellow Muslims, especially when they shoot you in the back or throw hand-grenades in your tent…
with thanks to Andrew Bolt
A bad mistake - or a nasty reminder - when an Australian Muslim organistation instinctively sides with Taliban suspects over the Australian soldiers trying to hold them captive:
SUSPECTED Taliban militants arrested by Australian special forces in Afghanistan have been detained in “dog pens” in actions that have left Australian Muslim groups outraged…The empty dog pens were used to hold overnight four suspected Taliban insurgents who were arrested in a raid by special forces soldiers on April 29….
Australia’s peak Muslim body, the Islamic High Council, expressed alarm at the practice.
“This is of concern to us whether they are Muslim or other people being confined in accommodation designed for dogs,” said council spokesman Mohamed Mehio. “This is a matter of human rights.” (remember: only Muslims are human, unbelievers are ‘the vilest of creatures..’ ed)
If the council was as noisy about the human rights of the many victims of the Taliban and waited to hear all the facts about this one-off overnight detention, I’d be less worried.
* Strangely, we didn’t hear anything from ‘our’ Muslims when this happened:
* Update 1: Tim Blair nails the swine from the Sydney Moonbat Herald who promptly tried to spin this crap into some kind of Abu Ghraib outrage, while Bobby Brown does his usual best and defecates on the troops, with gusto…
* Update 2: Aussies don’t buy media spin, rally behind troops and tell the Muzz to get stuffed…
Compassion. “TV reporters are not showing the Taliban’s humanity, says BBC presenter,” from the Daily Mail and a list of Taliban sins from Andrew Bolt:
A BBC presenter has attacked coverage of Afghanistan’s ongoing war, claiming TV reporters are not covering the ‘humanity of the Taliban’.
Lyse Doucet, a presenter and correspondent on BBC World News, was speaking at a discussion of TV reporting of the war in the country…
Asked what was missing in British coverage, she added: ‘It may sound odd but the humanity of the Taliban, because the Taliban are a wide, very diverse group of people.”
Let’s report the Taliban the Doucet way. So, readers, find the unreported humanity in these recent Taliban happynings:
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Taliban fighters with assault rifles shredded a U.S. aid group’s SUV with dozens of bullets Wednesday, killing three Western women and their Afghan driver amid an escalating militant onslaught against humanitarian workers in Afghanistan. The ambush of two clearly marked aid vehicles on the main road south of Kabul was the latest in a record number of attacks on aid groups this year…The Taliban claimed responsibility for the killings, saying its fighters attacked two vehicles of “the foreign invader forces.” .
* Not only that they blow up schools along with students and teachers, nothing is what they want:
A Wednesday attack that killed three Western aid workers in Afghanistan raises concerns that the Taliban is attempting to force the expulsion of all foreign humanitarian workers from the troubled country.
“This was the worst attack in many years and is a major escalation of hostilities,” says Sayed Rahim Satar, vice chairman of the Afghan NGO Coordinating Bureau.
The assault signals a shift in the Taliban’s strategy toward a policy of direct confrontation with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), says Waliullah Rahmani of the Kabul Center for Strategic Studies.
“This appears to be the beginning of a new approach,” he says, “to surround Kabul and eliminate any foreign or government presence in the area.”
