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Three Death Row Inmates Released
 [Tolo News] Afghan politicians on Thursday claimed that the government had released three dangerous inmates from prison who were convicted and sentenced to the death penalty on charges of coordinating suicide kabooms.A list of some three hundred prisoners sentenced to death has been dispatched to the President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... for his signature. But, reportedly, three names are missing from the list after the most recent, and controversial, tranche of releases from Bagram prison. "I am aware that three individuals sentenced to death have been released, and had been convicted on charges of coordinated suicide kabooms and kabooms, with women and kiddies being killed in these attacks," Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... MP Nahid Farid said. Although the names of the three inmates were not provided, it is known that some 650 prisoners were set to be released from Bagram prison upon the order of a special commission assigned to reviewing criminal cases by Karzai. The Afghan government, led by Karzai, has pushed a strategy of releasing krazed killer prisoners in hopes of building goodwill with anti-government groups ahead of the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... troop withdraw next year. Reconciliation with the Taliban has been one of Karzai's top priorities this year. But efforts to release prisoners suspected of causing innocent deaths, and who were difficult for Afghan and foreign forces to apprehend, have sparked controversy and heavy criticisms from Afghan leaders less willing to do the Taliban any favors. "One of the main issues is that there is no respect and balance between the trilateral bodies, and this issue is especially felt in the house," MP Farid said. Some have said Karzai's commission is illegal as it does not have court sanction. "There is no need to separately describe their crimes, each one of them have committed a crime, they have acted against the laws, they have committed murders with political ambitions - it's a fact that these individuals have committed murders," Supreme Court front man Abdullah Attayee said on Thursday. The President's office, the office for Administrative Affairs and Council of Ministers declined to comment on the subject. Posted by: Fred 2014-01-03 |
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