Barbarians. There really is no other word.

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http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/09/world/asia/afghanistan-public-execution/index.html

Afghan President Hamid Karzai ordered the arrest Monday of the Taliban who participated in the public execution of a woman accused of adultery. Shock and outrage have mounted since an amateur video surfaced of a burqa-clad woman sitting on the ground while a man standing a few feet away shoots her nine times before a cheering mob. The execution raises questions about what the 2014 withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan will mean for women, who regained basic rights of education and voting after the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Karzai condemned the killing and ordered security officials to arrest and punish those involved, according to a statement released by the president's press office. Officials in Afghanistan, where the amateur video was taken, believe the woman was executed because two Taliban commanders had a dispute over her, according to the governor of the province where the killing took place. Both apparently had some kind of relationship with the woman, Parwan province Gov. Abdul Basir Salangi said. To save face, they accused her of adultery, Salangi told CNN on Sunday. Then they "faked a court to decide about the fate of this woman and in one hour, they executed the woman," he added. Both Taliban commanders were subsequently killed by a third Taliban commander, Salangi said. Karzai called on officials to track down everyone involved, including those in the video. "We went there to investigate, and we are still looking for people who were involved in this brutal act," he said Sunday. U.S. Army Gen. John Allen, commander of NATO-led forces in Afghanistan, said he was encouraged by reports that provincial police were "investigating the circumstances surrounding this atrocity." He also offered the assistance of NATO troops to track down those responsible for the killing, according to a statement released by the U.S.-lead International Security Assistance Force. The killing took place in the village of Qimchok in Shinwari district, just north of the capital of Kabul. Karzai described those involved in the shooting death as "cowards," saying "such crimes are unforgivable both in Islam and under our country's laws," the statement from his press office said. The United States condemned the killing "in the strongest possible terms," calling it a "cold-blooded murder." "The protection of women's rights is critical around the world, but especially in Afghanistan, where such rights were ignored, attacked and eroded under Taliban rule," the American Embassy said in a statement Sunday. The public execution is the latest and among the most shocking examples of violence against women in Afghanistan, but it is far from an isolated case. Hundreds of students and teachers at girls' schools in the country have been hospitalized with suspected poisoning this year alone. Girls were forbidden to go to school when the Taliban ruled the country from 1996 to 2001. Nearly nine out of 10 women suffer physical, sexual or psychological violence or forced marriage at least once in their lifetimes, Human Rights Watch said in its 2012 annual report.

[Texy]

Ya I posted this earlier but my thread got deleted w/o any explanation... Most barbaric thing I've seen. The video is on youtube. Stone age culture and its hypocrisies

[ravishingravi]

We need to get rid of this lot and everyone who sympathizes with them.

[Prakat]

I hope I'm alive when that place has a society worth living in.

[Texy]

look at 1960s Afghanistan and look at now... as long as religious extremism is alive, intolerance is alive...nothing will happen in that country

[Brainfade]

We need to get rid of this lot and everyone who sympathizes with them.

Who is going to do it? The only remote possibility of external forces getting it done is for a democratic superpower to completely annihilate the population, take complete control and turn it around - it will never happen, and probably shouldn't. The US has spent enough money and manpower in trying to get a functional society there, and it is not worth it anymore. It has to come from within.

[Clarke]

We've invested/donated more than $2 billion in that country and a lot of the area is still under Tellybun control :mad:

[punjabi_khota]

Just heard that there has been a call from the Ummah to Egyptian govt. to demolish the Pyramids npw that the brotherhood is in power. :facepalm:

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Just heard that there has been a call from the Ummah to Egyptian govt. to demolish the Pyramids npw that the brotherhood is in power. :facepalm:

All hail the Arab Spring. ziZuRea004Q

[Anonymous]

Sometimes you can only feel for the average Afghani. Ahmad Shad Masood was their best bet at gettting any semblance of peace (He was the only leader who could command any sort of repect across all the ethnicities) and Pakistan threw everything it had at him because he wouldn't toe their line. First they supported Hekmatyar in the infamous Kabul Siege and then Masood repelled him. After that the ISI propped up a nascent hardline student group called the Taliban and shipped truckloads of Afghan refugees to fight the jehad along with more sophisticated weapons. They even bombed Mazar-e-Sharief using the PAF to aid the Taliban against Masood. India was not even a serious player then and Masood did not have much backing except from the Iranians. Later on, when the Northern Alliance was formed, India started supporting Masood and pumped in millions in aid and alo provided helicopters. Masood actually died in an Indian run Army hospital in Tajikistan when he was assasinated by Al Qaeda/ISI.

[pacman]

look at 1960s Afghanistan and look at now... as long as religious extremism is alive, intolerance is alive...nothing will happen in that country

how could you glorify the kafir lifestyle and making it sound like a good thing, in a Sharia state we like to cover our women head to toe.

[Andrew Peter]

Just heard that there has been a call from the Ummah to Egyptian govt. to demolish the Pyramids npw that the brotherhood is in power. :facepalm:

Thats how their culture has spread in the past , right ? Killing the natives , destroying the kaffir cultural identity of their land and then turning it into another arabia colony .

[punjabiplaya]

shocking!!! EDUCATION is a must for all men women n children!!

[Clarke]

Insurgents beheaded 17 civilians in a Taliban-controlled area of southern Afghanistan, apparently because they attended a dance party that flouted the extreme brand of Islam embraced by the militants, officials said Monday. The killings, in a district where U.S. Marines have battled the Taliban for years, were a reminder of how much power the insurgent group still wields in the south particularly as international forces draw down and hand areas over to Afghan forces. The victims were part of a large group that had gathered late Sunday in Helmand province's Musa Qala district for a celebration involving music and dancing, said district government chief Neyamatullah Khan. He said the Taliban slaughtered them to show their disapproval of the event. All of the bodies were decapitated but it was not clear if they had been shot first, said provincial government spokesman Daoud Ahmadi. Information was only trickling out slowly because the area where the killings occurred is largely Taliban controlled, Khan said. The Taliban spokesman for southern Afghanistan could not be reached for comment. Many Afghans and international observers have expressed worries that the Taliban's brutal interpretation of Islamic justice will return as international forces withdraw. Under the Taliban, who ruled the country from 1996 to 2001, all music and film was banned as un-Islamic, and women were barred from leaving their homes without a male family member as an escort. Helmand is one of the areas seeing the largest reduction in U.S. troops, as the force increase ordered up by President Barack Obama departs. The U.S. started drawing down forces from a peak of nearly 103,000 last year, and plans to have decreased to 68,000 troops in country by October. One of the most worrying trends to accompany the drawdown has been a surge in attacks by Afghan forces against their international allies, and another shooting came on Monday morning, though it appeared to be accidental. Two American soldiers were shot and killed by one of their Afghan colleagues in the east, military officials said, bringing to 12 the number of international troops all Americans to die at the hands of their local allies this month. But Afghan officials said Monday's attack in Laghman province was a separate case from the rash of recent insider attacks on international forces, because it appeared to have been unintentional. The incident unfolded when a group of U.S. and Afghan soldiers came under attack, said Noman Hatefi, a spokesman for the Afghan army corps in eastern Afghanistan. When the troops returned fire and ran to take up fighting positions, an Afghan soldier fell and accidentally discharged his weapon, killing two American soldiers with the stray bullets, he said. "He didn't do this intentionally. But then the commander of the (Afghan) unit started shouting at him, 'What did you do? You killed two NATO soldiers!' And so he threw down his weapon and started to run," Hatefi added. The U.S. troops had already called in air support to help with the insurgent attack and the aircraft fired on the escaping soldier from above, killing him, Hatefi said. NATO spokesman Lt. Col. Hagen Messer of Germany confirmed that two international soldiers were killed by an Afghan soldier in Laghman province, but declined to give further comment. Insider attacks have been a problem for the U.S.-led military coalition for years, but it has exploded recently into a crisis. There have been at least 33 such attacks so far this year, killing 42 coalition members, mostly Americans. Last year there were 21 attacks, killing 35; and in 2010 there were 11 attacks with 20 deaths. The chief spokesman for NATO forces in the country said coalition forces were not pulling back from collaborating with the Afghans because of the attacks. "We are not going to reduce the close relationship with our Afghan partners," Brig. Gen. Gunter Katz told reporters in the capital. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said that he could not confirm any link between the attacker in Monday's shooting and the insurgency. In previous insider attacks, the Taliban have quickly claimed responsibility and named the assailants. Mujahid did not comment on the other attacks in the south, which is watched over by a different Taliban spokesman. Meanwhile, Helmand officials reported that 10 Afghan soldiers were killed in an attack on a checkpoint in the south, and five were either kidnapped or joined their assailants. Ahmadi, the provincial spokesman, said insurgents attacked the checkpoint in Washir district Sunday evening. Another four soldiers were wounded he said. The Afghan Defense Ministry said the checkpoint was attacked by more than 100 insurgents. Ahmadi said the five missing soldiers left with the insurgents but it was unclear if they were kidnapped or went voluntarily.

http://news.yahoo.com/17-afghans-beheaded-insurgent-attack-party-105555181.html :fear: :fear:

[punjabi_khota]

I had dinner at a restaurant named HELMAND Sunday night. :((