Another dead foreigner in Afghanistan, another victim of the Taliban, another victim of the Religion of Peace. The Japanese aid worker who was just captured by the Taliban just on Tuesday, was killed and his bullet-ridden body found in eastern Afghanistan. Here's the details from Reuters:
The Taliban hasn't made any claims about the capture or the killing but I'm sure they will spew some sort of threat later today. But what this demonstrates is further evidence why the War in Afghanistan is so critical. We could go on for hours as to why the Iranians are such a threat to world peace and how they have to be stopped but the Taliban represent a different reason for fighting the Long War. As human beings, we simply cannot allow the Taliban to exist on this planet.
The Taliban represent the worst of the worst. These are islamists who place children outside of the doors to their meeting places, these are the jihadists who behead women, these are the minions of Satan that blow up thousands of innocent bystanders. I've said it many times before that defeating the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan is different than defeating al Qaeda in Iraq. The Taliban are like a cancer - they need to be cut out, they needed to be irradiated. In Iraq, al Qaeda has been beaten and they simply fade away or move off to other areas and disband. The Taliban, left to live another day, multiply and renew their efforts another day.
A Japanese aid worker kidnapped in eastern Afghanistan was found dead, the governor of Nangarhar province said on Wednesday..
"He has been killed. Police have recovered his body and are trying to bring it down from the top of the mountain," Gul Agha Sherzai told Reuters.
Kazuya Ito, a 31-year-old aid worker from Japan, was kidnapped by gunmen on Tuesday in Nangarhar. Afghan police launched a rescue operation on Wednesday
The Taliban hasn't made any claims about the capture or the killing but I'm sure they will spew some sort of threat later today. But what this demonstrates is further evidence why the War in Afghanistan is so critical. We could go on for hours as to why the Iranians are such a threat to world peace and how they have to be stopped but the Taliban represent a different reason for fighting the Long War. As human beings, we simply cannot allow the Taliban to exist on this planet.
The Taliban represent the worst of the worst. These are islamists who place children outside of the doors to their meeting places, these are the jihadists who behead women, these are the minions of Satan that blow up thousands of innocent bystanders. I've said it many times before that defeating the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan is different than defeating al Qaeda in Iraq. The Taliban are like a cancer - they need to be cut out, they needed to be irradiated. In Iraq, al Qaeda has been beaten and they simply fade away or move off to other areas and disband. The Taliban, left to live another day, multiply and renew their efforts another day.
Kidnapped Japanese aid worker killed in Afghanistan
SHEWA, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A Japanese aid worker kidnapped in eastern Afghanistan was found dead, the governor of Nangarhar province said on Wednesday.
"He has been killed. Police have recovered his body and are trying to bring it down from the top of the mountain," Gul Agha Sherzai told Reuters.
Kazuya Ito, a 31-year-old aid worker from Japan, was kidnapped by gunmen on Tuesday in Nangarhar. Afghan police launched a rescue operation on Wednesday.
Sherzai, together with Afghan police and international troops, traveled to the village of Shewa to recover the body. A Reuters reporter saw the bullet-riddled body of the victim after it was brought down from the mountain.
"It's the worst thing that could possibly happen. It's what we hoped would never happen," Mitsuji Fukumoto, who worked for the same Peshawar-kai aid agency, told reporters in Fukuoka.
"We must not waste Ito's efforts. I believe we should continue our activities," he added, at one point bowing his head and wiping tears from his eyes.
Taliban insurgents, who have been behind a series of abduction of Afghans and foreigners in recent years, said they had no information about the abduction.
Japan does not have troops in Afghanistan, but its navy runs a maritime refueling operation in support of U.S.-led military operations in the country.
Peshawar-kai, based in southern Japan, was set up in 1983 and provides medical services in Pakistan and Afghanistan
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