Taliban Executed 7-Year-Old Afghan 'Spy,' Officials Claim

CNN:

Suspected Taliban militants have executed a 7-year-old boy, accusing him of spying for the government, officials in southern Afghanistan said Thursday.

Read the whole story: CNN

Comments

[Oleg1]

02:45 AM on 06/13/2010

Madras-- the first refuge of scoundrels.

[Berettasskeeter]

11:44 AM on 06/14/2010

I presume you are referring to madrassas, religious schools, and not the city in India?!
Semper fi

[hanoum]

06:12 PM on 06/12/2010

From the above story:

"Allegedly...."

"If this is true....British Prime Minister said......"

HP, get back to us when you have some verifiable facts.

[changeup]

07:57 PM on 06/12/2010

It would stain the humanitarian reputation of the freedom-fighting Taliban, who so proudly took credit for slaughtering the 40 fellow Afghans attending a wedding. l

[hanoum]

08:44 PM on 06/12/2010

Journalists are supposed to verify their sources. If an honest discussion of a situation is to be had - sensationalism needs to be left out of the equation.

Provide a link for the wedding massacre.

[pplatonist]

04:12 PM on 06/12/2010

There are no words to describe this crime, nor the mentality of the perpetrators.

[shadow322]

03:24 PM on 06/12/2010

Aren't the Taliban men afraid of losing their identity as the stronger ones in their social structure when all you see are these big tough Taliban men forcing themselves and their wishes onto children and women?

[Bsmooth]

05:31 PM on 06/12/2010

No this is just a tool to keep the populace scared and terrified. It has pretty much been their standard practice since they came streaming out of the madrass's in Pakistan and began their march across Afghanistan almost 20 years ago.

[streetmagik]

11:52 AM on 06/12/2010

How can you make peace with people like this?

[omisade7]

08:49 AM on 06/13/2010

America not there for peace. The British and US is sending our children to get wacked over there for opium and oil revenues.Revenues that the "to big to fail" banks launder from the the big shots. They wasting time and money on another Vietnam-A no win situation. Its so sad.

[Berettasskeeter]

11:46 AM on 06/14/2010

You don't. You kill them, and keep on killing them.
Semper fi

[richschein]

08:20 AM on 06/17/2010

Amen to that!

[Logicalleopard]

09:36 AM on 06/12/2010

As my first time on a Huffington Post comments section, I must say this...Now I see why liberals have driven Glenn Beck insane. I clicked on this story, and am absolutely astonished how I could read a story about a 7 year old being abducted and hanged, and be saddened, thinking about his last terrified moments, and other people can read THE SAME STORY and compare it to something TOTALLY UNRELATED that a United States Border Patrol agent did. When people like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh talk about people hating America, I didn't believe them. Now I do. It takes some heavy duty national self loathing to even conjure such an abstract political argument when one is faced with the mental image of a once terrified little boy hanging from a tree.

[Roofusdog]

03:59 PM on 06/12/2010

A little balance would be appreciated.
As a liberal to some degree, I am amazed how one person's comments can be construed to represent an entire group; I in no way would believe that Rush Limbaugh represents most intelligent conservatives. Similarly, as an intelligent liberal, I would consider the commentary comparing the action of the US border patrol agent to that of the Taliban to be, besides facetious, radical. The act of the Taliban was an intentional act of terror, to the boy, to his family, and to all decent people.
There are, in fact, evil-doers in this world. And they are not American.

[powhatan1]

06:10 PM on 06/12/2010

Some of you all are waking up and begining to understand .....

[Megido]

08:23 AM on 06/12/2010

WHAT? I cannot, cannot believe?? I can't comprehend this.

[jojo1983]

02:19 AM on 06/12/2010

Thousands of posts on the stories about the flotilla aid ship attack, and only 428 comments on this story. Why so uneven?

[Mujtaba S]

04:34 AM on 06/12/2010

awesome. Lets equivocate the actions of a STATE with those of some unruly, uncivilized, state-less thugs who have done nothing else than fight for the last 15-30 years

[jojo1983]

05:08 AM on 06/12/2010

I really don't see what it matters that the Taliban are currently stateless. They did more or less control Afghanistan for a period of time. I just find the lack of outrage here (many of the posters don't even believe it's true) a little unnerving.

[ykk9]

05:29 AM on 06/13/2010

I don't think you can measure the importance of an issue by counting posts. The flotilla situation has a two very passionate groups arguing pro and con, hence the high number of posts. This story however will have a have a difficult time conjuring up voices defending the talibans murder of a child, so there just isn't much to argue about.

[CommonSensePlz]

07:21 PM on 06/11/2010

This is terrible. I wonder how many 7 year olds our side has killed?

[sdold]

12:41 AM on 06/12/2010

Accidentally? Many. On purpose? Zero. This story more than anything else has convinced me that we must rid the earth of the Taliban.

[ProudMilVet]

02:14 AM on 06/12/2010

sdold : I'm your first fan. Also faved !

[omisade7]

08:56 AM on 06/13/2010

Check US and British history first, There are not saints here, hon. Get over yourself! These officials need to lessen their dependence on oil-find other revenues(like clean energy developments). These people (our officials and the Soviets) put guns in these people hands-played the middlemen in their insanity now you need to "take em out". You created this monster and the innocent has to pay?

[jojo1983]

05:11 AM on 06/12/2010

Why is it anytime a story like this comes out, people like you automatically have to compare it to what we have done? Do you really hate your country that much?

[omisade7]

09:01 AM on 06/13/2010

I am Black. I am US history. My people owned it/ my people stole it from the others/ my people slaved and built it for free. Please! African, Choctaw and French Hugenot- I believe in mankind, justice, freedom, democracy! We ain't no more.

[HiraS]

06:30 PM on 06/11/2010

Horrible!! Just horrible.

[Rosewren]

04:07 PM on 06/11/2010

I would rather our military fight to save elephants, gorillas and such than to fight to save these people. They are too far gone to salvage or to bring into our century as humans.

[jojo1983]

04:32 PM on 06/11/2010

They may be too far gone to bring into our century as humans, but they are still a serious threat and extremely dangerous.

[MexiChick67]

04:02 PM on 06/11/2010

This is such a sad story. A casualty of religious zealots & a war run amuck. He is with God now. RIP.

[Rooster Coburn]

03:46 PM on 06/11/2010

See, they're not afraid of what the liberal Hollywood elites will say.

[IfIonlyknew]

01:52 PM on 06/11/2010

Not a lot different than killing a young boy on the border.

[mdsman]

02:53 PM on 06/11/2010

So quick to immediately equate all evil to something an american did...
irony is the amount of people who screamed that there was no problem for a 16 year old to solo around the world but a 15 year old is now a young boy

[Daisytoo]

03:13 PM on 06/11/2010

My comment - as reasonable as yours - was 'disappeared'. Is there some kind of interest in keeping moderate posts to a minimum in order to enhance the more extreme posts as mainstream? Probably so ... and so, I'll fan you and hope they don't censor that ..

[IfIonlyknew]

07:43 PM on 06/11/2010

Are you saying that shooting a 15 year old is not evil and was done intentionally.

[Daisytoo]

03:04 PM on 06/11/2010

If you only knew what a difference a discriminating mind makes, then you'd have a chance to know how deeply significant the difference is between accidentally killing a boy illegally crossing a border and deliberately executing a child for 'spying'.

[IfIonlyknew]

03:36 PM on 06/11/2010

Aiming you gun and pulling the trigger is not accidental.

[RustyGranite]

08:11 AM on 06/12/2010

"deeply significant the difference" = An Amuuuurican did it vs. an "evildoer"?

Get real. Same thing.

[Puzzlr]

09:51 AM on 06/11/2010

What do we expect from a group that kills or attacks girls just for going to school.

[omisade7]

09:04 AM on 06/13/2010

We need to come home and take care of our house. They been living like this forever. Get the speck out of your eye first!