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| Afghanistan |
| Afghan council goes on strike after foreign forces kill mullah |
| 2007-02-08 |
| A provincial council in eastern Afghanistan went on strike for four days on Wednesday to protest operations by foreign forces, after allegations that soldiers killed a mullah. The protest in Nangarhar province came as other provincial tribal elders meeting in Kabul complained foreign soldiers were branding Afghan men with beards and turbans “Taliban or Al Qaeda rebels and treating them as the enemy”. The 19-member Nangarhar council, similar to a provincial parliament, presented a resolution to reporters criticising the provincial government as “weak and scared of foreign forces”. “In protest at the continued house searches and arrests of mostly innocent people and disrespect to Afghan culture by foreign forces, we have stopped working for four days,” said the council deputy, Mawlawi Abdul Aziz. He said the move was in response to the arrest overnight on Wednesday of five people in Jalalabad in a raid that also killed a local mullah. Aziz said the raid was conducted by the NATO deployment helping Afghanistan try to defeat Taliban insurgents and their Al Qaeda allies. The International Security Assistance Force media centre in Kabul said it did not have information that its forces were involved, and the national police ministry could not immediately confirm the incident. Other international troops operate in Afghanistan, including undercover special forces. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 A provincial council in eastern Afghanistan went on strike for four days... Yeah, I'm sure these guys were real big in the heavy lifting department. I'm sure Nangarhar has ground to a halt... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-02-08 15:53 |
| #2 I'm beginning to think we're wrong to try to actually hold ground in these countries. Instead, we should destroy every bit of infrastructure, and keep hammering each time they try to rebuild. Turn the entire Middle East into a 7th century cesspit and let the arabs and other islamists stew in it, without a chance to escape. Of course, that would require stopping the russies and chicoms from coming in and taking over, which might be a tad difficult. We really need to have that moon base, complete with rock launchers. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2007-02-08 14:13 |
| #1 If 1 stiff Mueller gets you four hours off, then 6 must get you the an entire day? Now GET with the program! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2007-02-08 02:57 |