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Two US soldiers killed by Afghan colleague;
Taliban beheads 17 civilians for attending music event
KABUL, Afghanistan — Attackers hit international forces, the Afghan army and Afghan civilians in two days of violence that by Monday morning had left 29 people dead — two of them Americans soldiers killed by an Afghan colleague.
Insurgents beheaded 17 civilians in a Taliban-controlled area of southern Afghanistan, apparently because they attended a dance party that flouted the extreme brand of Islam embraced by the militants, officials said Monday.
The killings, in a district where US Marines have battled the Taliban for years, were a reminder of how much power the insurgent group still wields in the south — particularly as international forces draw down and hand areas over to Afghan forces.
The victims were part of a large group that had gathered late Sunday in Helmand province’s Musa Qala district for a celebration involving music and dancing, said district government chief Neyamatullah Khan. He said the Taliban slaughtered them to show their disapproval of the event.
All of the bodies were decapitated but it was not clear if they had been shot first, said provincial government spokesman Daoud Ahmadi.
Information was only trickling out slowly because the area where the killings occurred is largely Taliban controlled, Khan said. The Taliban spokesman for southern Afghanistan could not be reached for comment.
Many Afghans and international observers have expressed worries that the Taliban’s brutal interpretation of Islamic justice will return as international forces withdraw. Under the Taliban, who ruled the country from 1996 to 2001, all music and film was banned as un-Islamic, and women were barred from leaving their homes without a male family member as an escort.
serfer62
August 27th, 2012
Has NASA reached out to theses people yet!
Anonymous
August 27th, 2012
A surprise visit by Preezy to the troops in Afghanistan is overdue.
Bad Brad
August 27th, 2012
Yea, but whose troops?
MaryfromMarin
August 27th, 2012
Insightful, @Brad. Whose troops indeed? Like he’d really be interested in visiting ours.
Talibanic Katechon
August 27th, 2012
Salami malekoum!
Here in Shariastan, we hate :
- Art (music, cinema, literature, etc)
- Science
- Philosophy
We go into a bloodthirsty frenzy when we see :
- a Jew
- a Cross or a Christian icon
- gold
- Bad Brad.
We hate women when they don’t cook or clean.
We like to rape young boys.
Allah yo Akbar!!
Talibanic Katechon
August 27th, 2012
Basically, we loath everything you hold dear :
- Israel
- Christ
- capitalism
- individual sovereignty
- a productive life.
Bad Brad
August 27th, 2012
I feel honored I made the list.
ru fn kiddinme
August 27th, 2012
that asshole obuttlick gonna call ii “workplace violence” again?
Talibanic Katechon
August 27th, 2012
Fear the burning furnaces of Allah!!
Bad Brad
August 27th, 2012
I seem to have detected a pattern with them damn Talibanic types. They either like to have you way out gunned, out numbered, female, little boy, sneak up from behind, or betray some ones trust. I wonder how they do face to face in a confrontation? Maybe that’s why they are always pissed, they are cowards and can’t deal with it.
MaryfromMarin
August 27th, 2012
@Katechon–
Better be careful, or they’ll try to recruit you.
Or they’ll consider you one of their own already, and then you’ll really be up the creek.
Jim
August 27th, 2012
I would enjoy putting a bullet into some of these assholes.
Bad Brad
August 27th, 2012
Good point Mary. They might start stretching orifices out for the big day.
Talibanic Katechon
August 27th, 2012
@ Mary
Woman!! — am I your brother? Your husband? Your father? So don’t address me!!!!
- thou shall refrain from talking with thy mouth to men. Use thy hands to clean and cook and, please, stayeth in dah house!! Or in dah mobile tent!
Yo Allah yo Akbar!!
Talibanic Katechon
August 27th, 2012
@brad
I’ll show you who’s your islamic daddy!!
Before the consuming BBQ!!
MaryfromMarin
August 27th, 2012
@T. Katechon–
Your threats would be carry more weight if you’d chose one dialect and stick with it.
MaryfromMarin
August 27th, 2012
Oops–delete “be”.
Talibanic Katechon
August 27th, 2012
We use a more archaic language when we address women!!
MaryfromMarin
August 27th, 2012
“choose”. May I have a do-over, please?
MaryfromMarin
August 27th, 2012
There IS nothing more archaic than babbling.
Talibanic Katechon
August 27th, 2012
Women are not fit to use the internet!!
Allah yo Akbar! Stay away from the internet, woman!!
Talibanic Katechon
August 27th, 2012
I was quoting the holy Taliban!
MaryfromMarin
August 27th, 2012
In your dreams, Katechon.
Katechon
August 27th, 2012
bitterclinger
August 27th, 2012
You boys forgot goats. Those tolleybons loves them some goats. More than little boys. And way more than wimmins. The goats have a scent the tollybons find comforting. It’s like Chanel No. 5 to them.
Xavier
August 27th, 2012
Specifically young male goats.
cfm990
August 27th, 2012
I went to a concert in San Fran and lost my innocence.
I went to a concert in New York and lost my virginity.
I went to a concert an Afghanistan and lost my head
President Obama
August 28th, 2012
@cfm990: “I went to a concert an Afghanistan and lost my head”
You did it wrong. If you’d have gone with an older Pakistani gentleman sponsor – as I did in my youth – you’d have gotten more head than you ever could have imagined.