Taliban Torture, Execute 5 Afghan Police

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Source: ap

Taliban Torture, Execute 5 Afghan Police

By NOOR KHAN
The Associated Press
Sunday, November 18, 2007; 10:39 AM

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Taliban militants tortured five abducted policemen in southern Afghanistan and then hung their mutilated bodies from trees in a warning to villagers against working with the government, officials said Sunday.

The discovery of the bodies came as officials said that recent violence and clashes had left at least 63 other people dead across Afghanistan.


The officers had been abducted two months ago from their checkpoint in southern Uruzgan province, said Juma Gul Himat, the provincial police chief. The Taliban slashed their hands and legs and hung the bodies on trees Saturday in Gazak village of Derawud district, he said.

"The Taliban told the people that whoever works with the government will suffer the same fate as these policemen," Himat said. "This village is under Taliban control. There are more than 100 Taliban in this village."



Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/18/AR2007111800210.html?hpid=moreheadlines

[cali]

1. I detest the Taliban.

And what does it say that they're still so active? Yeah, Afghanistan is in great shape.

[RC]

2. Yeah, it is. We got the pipeline built and working.

What else is there in that land of wedding parties? </sarcasm>

[Trajan]

3. Is the Pipeline built ?

I didnt know that ..... Any links ?

(edit: It is NOT built ....

LINK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Afghanistan_Pipeline

The Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline (TAP or TAPI) is a proposed natural gas pipeline being developed by the Asian Development Bank. The pipeline will transport Caspian Sea natural gas from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan into Pakistan and then to India.

The 1,680 km pipeline will run from the Dauletabad gas field to Afghanistan. From there TAPI will be constructed alongside the highway running from Herat to Kandahar, and then via Quetta and Multan in Pakistan. The final destination of the pipeline will be the Indian town of Fazilka, near the border between Pakistan and India. The pipeline will be 1,420 mm in diameter with a working pressure of 100 atm and the capacity of 33 billion cubic meter (bcm) of natural gas annually. Six compressor stations are to be constructed along the pipeline. The cost of this international infrastructure is estimated at US$3.5 billion (2005 figures). Proponents of the project see it as a modern continuation of the Silk Road. The Afghan government is expected to receive 8% of the project's revenue.

Original project started in March 1995 when inaugural memorandum of understanding between the governments of Turkmenistan and Pakistan for a pipline project was signed. In August 1996, the Central Asia Gas Pipeline, Ltd. (CentGas) consortium for construction of pipeline, led by Unocal was formed. On 27 October 1997 CentGas incorporated in formal signing ceremonies in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan by several international oil companies along with the Government of Turkmenistan. In January 1998 the Taliban, selecting CentGas over a Brazilian competitor, signed an agreement that allowed the proposed project to proceed. In June 1998, Russian Gazprom relinquishes its 10% stake in project. Unocal withdrawn from the consortium on 8 December 1998.

The new deal on the pipeline was signed on 27 December 2002 by the leaders of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan and in 2005 Asian Development Bank submitted the final version of feasibility study designed by British company Penspen. Since the United States military overthrew the Taliban government the project has essentially stalled; construction of the Turkmen part was supposed to start in 2006, but the overall feasibility is questionable since the southern part of the Afghan section runs through territory which continues to be under de facto Taliban control.

-snip- )

[Trajan]

4. Gotta love them cutthroat theocratic thugs .....

It is amazing how, at times, our friends here and elsewhere will embrace the Taliban for the mere fact that they seem to be Bush's enemy, and therefore the adage "my enemy's enemy is my friend' loosely kicks in .....

Here is a clue: Your enemy's enemy might also be your enemy too ....

The Taliban sealed their deserved reputation as crass, amoral haters when they executed female citizens for the flimsiest social transgressions ...... and continuing with their destruction of the Bamiyan statues and other historical works of art ....

FUCK the Taliban .....

[noahmijo]

5. Just think if only our resources were used to overthrow the Taliban

instead of the Taliban hating dictator Saddam...

[gratuitous]

6. Now wait a second

Can we truly say that these five men were "tortured"? Get me Attorney General Mukasey!