Taliban's Omar orders execution of foreign hostages

Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has ordered the execution of four foreigners -- described as three Albanians and a German -- kidnapped in southern Afghanistan, a Taliban spokesman said.

Omar's order was read by telephone late on Sunday to a Reuters reporter at the border town of Spin Boldak, in Kandahar province.

"These people had come to Afghanistan at America's behest, therefore they should be sentenced to death," Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousuf quoted the order as saying.

Earlier on Sunday, Yousuf had said four Albanians and four Afghans were being held.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060313/ts_nm/afghan_kidnapping_dc_2

...that this fuckwit is still running around free.

but a guy like this is still running around SUPPOSEDLY ordering executions. What is wrong with this picture?

It's unbelievable 1 vote :hi:

Wednesday Feb. 8, 2006, KABUL: More than 170 Taliban and other fighters
surrendered on Sunday as part of a government amnesty scheme, vowing to lay
down arms and work to rebuild the war-ravaged Afghanistan, officials said.
The men travelled from various provinces from across Afghanistan to Kabul for a
ceremony at which their surrender was announced by the head of the government's
reconciliation commission Sebghattullah Mujaddadi. They included members of the
extremist Hezb-e-Islami faction of wanted warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.

"In the ceremony, 172 brothers, who were former Taliban and Hezb-e-Islami,
surrendered," Commission Spokesman Sayed Sharif Yousufi told AFP. More than 1000
Taliban and Hezb-e-Islami members had signed up to the amnesty scheme since it was
launched less than a year ago, Yousufi said. One of the former fighters, Qazi Joma
Khan from Hezb-e-Islami faction, said the men wanted to help rebuild Afghanistan.

"We vow to help ensure security and peace and take part in reconstruction of our
country," he said. Among those, who have taken up the offer, were former Taliban
Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil and Taliban regime's Ambassador to
Pakistan Abdul Salam Zaeef.

http://indiamonitor.com/news/readNews.jsp?ni=10435

Sunday March 12, 2006

In Kabul, a suicide bombing Sunday killed two people and
narrowly missed the chief of Afghanistan's upper house of
parliament, and he accused Pakistani intelligence of trying to
assassinate him.

Also Sunday, a car bombing in the capital targeted Sibghatullah
Mujaddedi, a Muslim cleric who briefly served as president in
1992. He now heads the new Meshrano Jirga, or upper house of
parliament, and leads a commission encouraging Taliban
fighters to reconcile with the government.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5680706,00.html

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=545986&mesg_id=545986

The SOP is to take hostages, convene a sort of shura to try them, and then execute them. "A Taliban court would try the men as spies for the United States, Yousuf said." Note the future tense (with the English "tense-shift" required by the past tense 'said'); that 'would' is not a conditional.

As non-Muslims, their word is, of course, less than that of Muslims. Torture is ok. Execution is one of the few options; keeping them alive, as prisoners, is not one of them.

Strictly by the book. Omar's insane by my standard, but rationally so.