Taliban In Afghanistan Behead As Many As 30 In Bus Ambush

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban insurgents pulled some 50 passengers off a bus in southern Afghanistan and beheaded as many as 30 of them after accusing them of being soldiers traveling in civilian clothes, Afghan officials in the region announced on Sunday.

The police chief of Kandahar Province, where the attack occurred on Thursday, said that of six bodies retrieved so far, all had been beheaded, mutilated and dumped. The police had received information that 24 other people had been killed but had yet to find their bodies, the police chief, Gen. Matiullah Qati, said.

The attack was on the main road running from the southern city of Kandahar to the western town of Herat, General Qati said. It took place in Maiwand District, which is known as an area with a significant Taliban presence, where attacks on military convoys are frequent. The road is also the main route for British and Afghan army troops traveling to Helmand Province, where the insurgency is strongest.

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[CC1]

I'm amazed at the Islam-bashing remarks on here. Terrorists are terrorists, you don't have to be of a certain religion (or of any religion at all) to be a terrorist. Our leadership proves that.

Yeah sure only terrorists behead innocent people but then again it takes a terrorist president to invade a country with a phony argument cough *WMD Iraq* cough. How is one better than the other?

The majority of Muslims condemn acts such as this

[MagisterLudi]

"It is a certain fact that not all M-lims are t e rrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all te rr orists are M-lims."
Abdel Rahman al-Rashed, general manager of Arab news channel, Al-Arabiya
Do you agree? CC1.

[MagisterLudi]

Why the West needs to keep on fighting.
Denmark police just arrested two subhumans preparing to carry out the London train
copycat attack in Denmark. GUESS what religion they are.... Guess where they received the training. You're right, Both subhumans received training in Waziristan. Why Denmark you ask, one of the most liberal countries in the world? Cartoons... CARTOONS IN A DANISH MAGAZINE!

[SOLERSO68]

and after trillions of treasury, hundreds of thousands of live, 6 years and all of americas prestige wasted in iraq, now we are looking at really beggining the war we HAVE to fight.

[MagisterLudi]

Unfortunately, it's true.

[BayAreaResident]

For one the US should have thought twice before arming training and financing the mujahideen guerillas. Secondly, we ought not to have virtually withdrawn from Afganistan shortly after the the war began, and thirdly, most of our current woes are a direct courtesy of the ineptitude of Pakistani government to deal with the vast safe havens that were formed in it's northern provinces in the recent years. We obviously can not fix the first two problems now, but we can definitely push Pakistan to take action, otherwise, as mr. Obama has recently suggested we might have to do it ourselves....

Thank you mr. Brzezinski and Ronald Reagan for your remarkable wit and strategic insight! Have a head to spare anybody?

[MagisterLudi]

Carter and Reagan have the most culpability of encouraging Jihad in A-stan. I've yet to hear Carter's apology for this myopia.

[jimmyjones22]

That's why I never take greyhound.

well, I did once in so-cal. same thing happened.

[MagisterLudi]

If I throw a stick, will you leave?

[MagisterLudi]

More than 120 girls' schools have been burned down or attacked in the Swat Valley region. The local Taliban is trying to enforce Sharia laws.It is estimated that at least 50,000 students have been affected in a region where only 27 per cent of women can read of write. Al Jazeera's Imran Khan reports

BUT BOOOSH......

[MajorKong]

Hey, we could have let the Red Army deal with these idiots back in the 1980s but nooooooooo we had to arm them and train them.

Heck, when I was in the Air Force back then we all thought it was really cool to donate our CFC (Combined Federal Campaign) to the Afghan Freedom Fighters Fund.

[MagisterLudi]

This is how things roll in triangulation global politics. You fight whoever is the strongest until you reduce them. Then powers re-align and you fight the next strongest opponent to emerge. And so whats new.

"Never do an enemy a small injury"
- Niccolo Machiavelli

[MagisterLudi]

"We cannot tolerate in our midst those who abduct journalists, murder civilians, explode buses; we cannot accept them as related to us. . . . They are the people who have smeared Islam and stained its image. We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive monopoly implemented by Muslim men and women."Abdel Rahman al-Rashed

[Shaddup]

F*@%in' fundamentalists. Only B u sh could set the US up to lose a war they'd already won.

[darthdarcy]

It might be worth considering the U.S.declaring war on Waziristan and sending B-52 strikes to destroy every potential base in that region and then create a no man's land 10-20 miles zone between that region and the Afghan border..

If Pakistan can sign treatise with Waziristan, then how is it a part of Pakistan proper..?

[MagisterLudi]

good news
"Violence in Afghanistan this year has k_illed more than 5,100 people, mostly suspected Taliban fighters, according to an Associated Press news agency count of figures from Afghan and Western officials."
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2008/10/20081019123431605467.html

[MajorKong]

Waziristan is loosely affiliated with Pakistan, but it has limited autonomy. The closest example I can think of would be a US territory like Guam or Puerto Rico.

It depends on how badly Pakistan would react if did that. Or how badly we cared how Pakistan reacted (because we might need their cooperation on other things).

Keep in mind that we're dealing with guerilla fighters here and B-52 strikes might be the military equivalent of "whack a mole".

[MagisterLudi]

Pakistanis are getting serious.

Pakistani has bombed a pro-Taliban group's hideout in northwestern Swat valley, ki l ling a commander and at least 30 fighters and destroying an ammunition ump.

In other violence, Pakistani fighter jets and helicopter gunships struck fighters' positions in Bajaur, a mainly ethnic Pashtun region near the Afghan border, but there were no immediate reports of any casualties.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2008/10/2008101973845202653.html

[RationalDubSteppa]

Religious morality at it's best!

[MajorKong]

The Taliban needs to get with the times and start dropping cluster bombs and white phosphorous on people from aircraft. Beheading is sooooo 12th century.

[MagisterLudi]

Brothas gettin' bad publicity.... to the rescue .... redirect..deflect... redirect...

[MajorKong]

Eeeek! Islamofascists! Run! Hide!

[pfc1369]

Outsiders have invaded Afghanistan for more than 2,000 years, and all have left bloodied and defeated by a vast, mountainous land populated by warrior tribes.

Just ask the modern British or Russians.

If Obama is elected, and goes ahead with his plans for that country, it will turn out to be a bigger disaster than Iraq.

A word to the wise...

[MagisterLudi]

Afghanis ki_lling Afghanis... must redirect......Boosh...Boosh

[Durango]

This is terror and is not a good way of winning friends and influencing people.

It is a losing strategy for the Taliban. Terror does not work. Not in the long run.

Providing a practical framework for the future of their country. That is what works.

Which is why the Taliban took power in the first place. They provided an alternative to the chaos that was Afghanistan in the wake of the Soviet war.

I can only hope that after Bush et al leave office we can have a policy in Afghanistan that leads to peace in that country. i know for certain we can never get there with Bush/Cheney.

But the Afghan people deserve better from the world.

[pfc1369]

If you think the Afghan chieftans are concerned with "winning friends and influencing people," you are looking through a telescope from the wrong end.

[Durango]

My point is that the Taliban are not going to come to power using terrorism as a strategy.

Yes all governments must in some way have the consent of the governed. Win friends and influence the people.And terror is not the way to do it.

Which is why the fundamentalists of al Qaida do not govern anywhere on earth.

[walk0nwalls]

And yet another one on for my list of "Things that make me lose hope in the future of humanity"

[ronnierayjenkins]

Her boy died out there among the dates and the palms:

http://www.ronnierayjenkins.com/topics/deathinappalachia/Empty_Chairs/