Pigs Fly Headline of the Day: Taliban Ask U.N. To Halt The Afghan Govt's 'barbaric' Execution Of Taliban Prisoners

I know, I know...it's a real head shaker. The Taliban, probably the most ruthless and barbaric group on Earth, the ones who behead and stone women, who send children into live landmine fields, who place children outside the doors of their meeting places has cried out for the U.N. and EU and even the Red Cross to see if they can help stop the Afghan government from continuing with executions of Taliban prisoners. Un-freaking-believable. You'll notice the Taliban didn't ask the Americans for any help in staving off these executions. Haha.

Here's part of the story from Reuters:

Afghanistan's Taliban, notorious for summary public executions, urged the
United Nations on Thursday to press the Afghan government to stop executing
prisoners on death row, citing concern about fair trials.

The United Nations and European Union have called on Karzai to halt the
executions, citing concern about the standards of judicial fairness.
The
United Nations says Afghanistan's law enforcement and judicial systems fall far
short of internationally accepted standards.
The Taliban leadership council
said it too was worried about fair trials.
"We strongly request the U.N.,
the EU, the Red Cross and human rights groups to earnestly prevent this barbaric
act," the Taliban said in a statement on their website, accusing Karzai's
government of corruption.

These are the same Taliban that carry their own judge, jury and executioner on their backs as they travel through Afghanistan. The same Taliban that kidnap, kill and maim on a daily basis. The very same Taliban who threw battery acid in the faces of Afghan schoolgirls just yesterday.

And they want a fair trial for their cohorts? Fuck them.

Taliban urge world to block Afghan
executions



KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taliban, notorious for summary public
executions, urged the United Nations on Thursday to press the Afghan government
to stop executing prisoners on death row, citing concern about fair trials.
Afghanistan resumed executions this week after a break of more than a year,
with three Taliban sentenced for deadly attacks among nine people put to death
in the past few days.
Those executions followed a public outcry over rising
crime.
About 120 other people have been sentenced to death and their fate
rests with President Hamid Karzai, who has to approve any execution order.
The United Nations and European Union have called on Karzai to halt the
executions, citing concern about the standards of judicial fairness.
The
United Nations says Afghanistan's law enforcement and judicial systems fall far
short of internationally accepted standards.
The Taliban leadership council
said it too was worried about fair trials.
"We strongly request the U.N.,
the EU, the Red Cross and human rights groups to earnestly prevent this barbaric
act," the Taliban said in a statement on their website, accusing Karzai's
government of corruption.
The Taliban, fighting to overthrow Karzai's
pro-Western government, have executed dozens of captured soldiers and civilians
since U.S.-led forces ousted the militant Islamist movement in 2001.
During
their 1996-2001 rule in Afghanistan, the Taliban executed dozens of people,
occasionally staging killings in public at Kabul's main sports stadium.
In
their statement, the Taliban warned the government against more executions,
saying the officials responsible for them would be punished.
The Taliban
have stepped up their insurgency over the past two years and crime has increased
as security has deteriorated.
Fed up with crime, many ordinary Afghans have
called on the government to carry out death sentences.
The Taliban won
public support in the 1990s, emerging from religious schools on the Pakistani
border and largely wiped out crime as they took over the country.