Two foreigners stoned to death in Afghanistan

[maddezmom]

KABUL (Reuters) - Two foreign nationals, one of them Swiss, have been stoned to death in the Afghan capital.

Bodies of the men were discovered in Baghe Chilstone, an ancient garden not far from the city's centre, Interior Ministry spokesman Lufullah Mashal, told Reuters on Sunday.

"Locals informed the police and showed them the bodies and an investigation is going on as to who stoned these to death, and why," Mashal said. "One of them holds a Swiss passport and the nationality of the other is not known."

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[fujiyama]

1. Oh yeah that other place

Or as one right winger once asked me, "Isn't that place like a democracy now?"

[salin]

2. yet more human destruction

with each story such as this I shudder and hear an echo from just over a year ago... a cowboyish, arrogant, simpleton who is too lazy to study policy and too ignorant to realize that it is important to have policy stand up to scrutiny by debates WITHIN the process of making policy... who instead just says: "Bring it On"... and while this is not directly related to this incident - it is emblematic of the attitude, approaches and actions that created circumstances where incidents like this are sadly, predictable.