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The Taliban Kidnap One of Their Own
* This f*kcwit keeps costing Canadian taxpayers money: did anyone consider to pay the Taliban to keep her?
As the security situation in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province continues to deteriorate, the Taliban are threatening to take control of Peshawar, the provincial capital. As the Taliban grow bolder, they have begun to target foreigners of all stripes. Even one of their own.

* “I am not a “terrorist”, a fanatic or mentally off-balance…”
Today, two reporters, one from Newsweek, were shot in western Peshawar after they dodged a kidnapping attempt. Yesterday, the Taliban successfully kidnapped an Iranian consular official, in the same region. Two days prior, a U.S. aid worker and his driver were killed in another kidnapping attempt.
*  “Violent jihad is a natural response to Western decadence..”Â
But the most curious kidnapping that occurred in Pakistan’s northwest has gone largely unreported. The Taliban kidnapped a Canadian journalist named Beverly Giesbrecht. CTV described Giesbrecht as “a Web magazine publisher in British Columbia who adopted the name Khadija Abdul Qahaar after converting to Islam after 9/11.”
* Chutzpah alert:Â Afghanistan’s Taliban have called on human rights groups to stop the Afghan government executing prisoners.
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