Taliban kill 2 alleged US spies in NW Pakistan

Source: AP

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistani Taliban shot and killed two men Wednesday whom they accused of spying for the United States, while a bomb ripped through a NATO oil tanker near the Afghan border and killed a passer-by, officials and residents said.

The slain men were from Miran Shah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal region which is effectively under militant control. The bodies were dumped in an open area in the town.

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Also Wednesday, a bomb ripped through an oil tanker carrying supplies for NATO forces based in Afghanistan, killing a passer-by, Pakistani border guard Fazal Bari said.

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In the northwestern city of Peshawar, two young girls were killed and two other others injured after someone hurled a hand grenade into a home in a congested residential area, police official Razi Khan said. It was not clear whether militant groups were behind the attack and authorities were investigating.

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At least they weren't http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g6-0fDQc6DQCAWA9pswd61rpA34A">beheaded. The girls were http://www.rttnews.com/Content/GeneralNews.aspx?Id=1302227&SM=1">sisters, apparently, killed after dad didn't pay protection money.

If they were imprisoned in that secret jail at Bagram, they'd probably get the shit beat out of them every day. I think I'd rather be dead and done with it.

...Any comment on the girls? Or you just want to talk about something else? :eyes:

If you don't, that's OK. But I'll explain if you need me to...

About the girls? It's horrific. Maybe this kind of shit wouldn't be happening if we weren't blowing the country to smithereens.
The Taleban is using fear as a weapon....just like the US and NATO. As simple and as sad as that.

You're pretty hawkish about this topic. Would you care to explain why you think we're there?
And don't say "oil" or "gas". Not good enough.

...the Taliban wouldn't be extorting families, bombing schools and poisoning girls who want to study if the US and NATO weren't there, I can't help you. That's just ignorant of history.

As to why we're there, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7842007">I've gone into it at length recently. Why we're there isn't worth supporting, it's why we're still there that interests me.

why are we STILL there?

...I doubt I'll be as lucid for another few years. :)