Taliban behead two civilians, kill seven Afghan police

[maddezmom]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) - Militants loyal to Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime killed seven Afghan police and beheaded two civilians in the country's insurgency-hit south, a provincial governor said.

The policemen were killed in an ambush Wednesday on a three-vehicle convoy on a highway between Uruzgan province and Kandahar, a former Taliban hotbed, Uruzgan governor Jan Mohammad told AFP on Thursday.

One of the vehicles escaped the ambush but two were destroyed.

"Seven police were killed on the spot and two are missing. The two vehicles were destroyed as well," Mohammad said.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051110/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanattackstaliban

[maddezmom]

1. 7 Police Killed in New Afghan Violence

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Rebels killed seven police officers and abducted two after ambushing them on a road in southern Afghanistan, while two villagers were abducted and beheaded, officials said Thursday.

Two U.S. soldiers, meanwhile, were wounded when an Afghan army officer opened fire on them at a joint base in eastern Paktia province Wednesday, Gen. Rahmatullah Raofi said. The American forces returned fire and killed the Afghan officer.

He said it was not immediately clear why the officer fired at the troops. A U.S. military spokesman in Kabul said he had no information on the incident.

The police were driving in three vehicles on a road toward Kandahar, the former Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan, when they were attacked Wednesday in Shah Wali Kot district, said Jan Mohammed Khan, a local governor.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051110/ap_on_re_as/afghan_ambush

[Carolab]

2. Yes, Scotty, tell us again how Afghanistan is going so well.

You know, that little fairy tale about how it's such a model of how we're spreading democracy and freedom?

[pelsar]

3. of course....

its always better to pretend the taliban with their stoning of people for adultry, treating women like non humans, etc dont exist...yes thats much better...

why bother with people on the other side of the world who lives are wrapped up in burlap cloth...no allowed to be educated...why should we care or even do anything about it...

why risk anything,...why ruin my nice life style and take a chance to cause change and take a country out of the 12th century....lets all go back to MTV.....

[thebigidea]

6. huh? Nothing has changed. Burlap is king. You think Dubya gave a shit?

do you honestly think anything about the Afganistan "operations" involved taking them "out of the 12th century?"

or was that some kind of sarcasm I missed due to sleep depravation?

A bunch of corrupt drug dealing warlords running things and keeping women in burlap isn't exactly progress.

[leesa]

13. Funny. Yes, let's HELP them by melting them with whitephosphorous

and napalm so that they learn not to end their barbaric ways. And let's bring our Christian Taliban to their country so we can HELP them by torturing them in our own style for violations of OUR wacked rules.


DUH! Swallow propaganda much?

[leftchick]

4. bush said the Taliban were gone from Afghanistan

about a hundred million times.

[pelsar]

5. so?......

what does that have to do with anything....they're still fighting to put afganistan back in the 12th century.....and people here agree to that?

i must be confused is this the underground facist site for religious dictatorships?

[thebigidea]

7. you must be joking - you think Bush is actually bringing them democracy?

you think Bush bestowed upon them the gift of progress, modern thinking, and equality for women?

its the same mess its always been, with a different bunch of asshole thugs running things... with the same MO, basically.

murderous, heroin-dealing warlords dividing up the country piece by piece. Yeah, some progress.

[leftchick]

10. wow! can you read?

Did I say I was rooting for the Taliban or "agreeing" with them? Uh, no I did not. I was merely pointing out another lie by the idiot in the WH who has no grasp of reality.

There, feel better about this "underground facist(sic)site"?

:eyes:

[thebigidea]

11. its the same "you love Saddam!" argument

If you hate A) then you must love B) - even if you explicitly state that you think both A) and B) are complete shits, and things have not only not improved, but they've gotten worse.

pretty pathetic, really.

[leftchick]

12. agreed

pathetic.

[SillyGoose]

8. If we hadn't diverted a good deal of our military resources

to Iraq, we could have properly secured Afghanistan. Maybe we could have even *gasp* caught Bin Laden.

[lonestarnot]

9. I thought we "blessed these people with our presence" so that we

could "git rid of the Taliban." "Mission Accomplished" and all that hmmm still there ... back from Torra Borra. Only Osama was supposed to use the escape route reserved for VIP's. "Damn Varmits! They cheated." "Git my boom boom stick." he he he "They don't call me gw bushitler for nutt'n."

[Danger Duck]

14. Animals.