Taliban Strikes Back At Pakistani Village That Resisted

nytimes.com:

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Four months ago, the people of the Pakistani mountain village of Shalbandi gained national repute after a village posse hunted down and killed six Taliban fighters who had tied up and killed eight local policemen. The posse displayed the Taliban corpses like trophies for other residents to see, and the village was celebrated as a courageous sign that the Taliban could be repelled.

On Sunday morning, the Taliban struck back.

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Comments

[meemu]

I admire these people for having the courage to resist the Taliban, even though they know the Taliban will retaliate. If they continue to resist, perhaps other villages will join them and make them stronger, and actually push the Taliban out. Otherwise, the Taliban will take away many of the freedoms they have now, not to mention what they'll do to the women there.

[Tatiana]

How many Taliban's exist anyway? There like flies. Kill a hundred and that brings out a thousand more.

[rasit]

They convert by terror, bribe to the families of suicide bombers and promise of martyrdom...

And as long as Pakistan does not have control over parts of its "soverign" country, Talibanization will progress, a village at a time...and eventually there wil be Talbanistan, unless the world country comes together and eradicates this menace...

[JohnFromCensornati]

Religion. Gotta love it.