Sunday, October 19, 2008

Taliban Hijack Afghan Bus, 40 Civilians Killed


Most of you have read here at Holger Awakens how I have called for the utter and complete extermination of the Taliban from the face of the earth. This is just another example of why I have called for that. A busload of 40 Afghan men headed to Iran to find work were hijacked by Taliban jihadists and all 40 were killed (although only 6 beheaded bodies have been found so far). Now, the Taliban say the men on the bus were Afghan troops headed to Helmand province but of course, that is bullshit - the Taliban follow the word of mohammed and that of course means that lying is an art, a way of life.

Here's some of the details of the atrocity from Breitbart:


Taliban militants hijacked a bus in southern Afghanistan last week and killed as many as 40 passengers, authorities said, although only six beheaded bodies were recovered on Sunday.
A spokesman for the insurgent group confirmed that the militia had seized the passenger bus in Kandahar province and said 27 on board were killed because they were soldiers. The defence ministry said they were not troops.
Kandahar provincial police chief Mutihullah Khan Qatah said there were 50 passengers aboard the bus when it was ambushed Thursday in Maiwand district. Two other buses had been able to escape, he said.
"Among them 10 people were released after they were said to be civilians. The rest of them were killed," he told AFP.

I have also stated here that the Taliban are going to be in jeopardy if they continue their heinous attacks on Afghan civilians - much like the same acts backfired on al Qaeda in Iraq. But let's look at this claim by the Taliban that these were troops on this bus.

1. They claim that 27 were troops and the rest, civilians, who were released. So, since when do Afghan troops travel in a Greyhound bus???!! With civilians?

2. Notice that there were two other buses in the caravan which escaped. So, if these buses were loaded with Afghan troops, do you really think the other two buses would just turn tail and run? No one has ever accused Afghan troops of running from a fight - they would have counter-attacked that first bus.

3. Finally, the fact that only six were found beheaded is simply a case where there were six civilians who were resisting and the Taliban killed them right there.

It is my feeling that if the Taliban are allowed to recapture Afghanistan and regain control of that country, that the world will see upwards of 1 million Afghans killed in a genocide that the world hasn't seen for many years.

The facts of this atrocity has to be played in the government halls of every NATO country's hall of government and then followed up with a commitment of tripling their forces in Afghanistan. It is time for Afghanistan's President Karzai to finally get out of the way and let NATO forces fight this war the way it HAS to be to eliminate the Taliban.


Taliban hijack Afghan bus, dozens feared dead: officials

Taliban militants hijacked a bus in southern Afghanistan last week and killed as many as 40 passengers, authorities said, although only six beheaded bodies were recovered on Sunday.
A spokesman for the insurgent group confirmed that the militia had seized the passenger bus in Kandahar province and said 27 on board were killed because they were soldiers. The defence ministry said they were not troops.
Kandahar provincial police chief Mutihullah Khan Qatah said there were 50 passengers aboard the bus when it was ambushed Thursday in Maiwand district. Two other buses had been able to escape, he said.
"Among them 10 people were released after they were said to be civilians. The rest of them were killed," he told AFP.
Six bodies were in the district clinic and about two dozen more were believed to be in a Taliban-controlled area, Qatah told a media briefing later. "We are still trying to find them."
The police chief said the men, all apparently aged between 20 and 25, were from Kabul and travelling to Iran to seek work in the neighbouring country.
Defence ministry spokesman General Mohammad Zahir Azimi said the six bodies recovered Sunday were all beheaded.
Another 25 were believed to be in the neighbouring province of Helmand in an area controlled by the militants, he said.
A Taliban spokesman, Yousuf Ahmadi, claimed the captured bus was taking Afghan National Army reinforcements to volatile Helmand.
"We found government documents on them and we killed 27 of them. The rest, who were civilians, we freed," he said.
Neither the government or insurgent tolls could be independently confirmed.
Helmand has seen days of intense fighting, with a series of attacks on the provincial capital Lashkar Gah last week.
The government and international troops, mainly British, control some centres but admit that several districts are held by the insurgents.
But Helmand government spokesman Daud Ahmadi said the military never used local civilian transport.
"These people who have been killed are all those people who were going from Kabul to Iran for work," he said.

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