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| Afghanistan |
| Taliban release video of beheading |
| 2009-02-08 |
| PAKISTANI Taliban militants released a graphic video on Sunday showing the beheading of a Polish engineer whom they said was killed because Islamabad refused to free detained insurgents. The tape, seen by an AFP correspondent here, was released one day after a spokesman for Pakistan's umbrella Taliban group said its men had decapitated Piotr Stanczak, who was kidnapped in the volatile northwest on September 28. Stanczak, who was working in Pakistan for a Polish energy company, was seized by armed men in the town of Attock, about 70km northwest of the capital Islamabad. His two drivers and bodyguard were killed. Polish deputy foreign minister Jacek Najder earlier said authorities in Warsaw were still awaiting official confirmation of Stanczak's killing by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Prime Minister Donald Tusk previously said Poland had received "informal confirmation" of the engineer's death, while a spokesman for the Polish embassy in Islamabad said it considered the TTP claim to be "99.99 per cent true". The video shows Stanczak sitting cross-legged on a carpet, wearing a khaki shalwar kameez. He made a brief statement in English in response to questions posed by his captors, urging his government to withdraw its contingent of about 1100 troops from Afghanistan. In the next scene, Stanczak is sitting in the same position, but blindfolded. A masked man is shown beheading him with a knife, while two men stand guard behind him, holding AK-47s at the hostage's head. A masked militant is then shown saying Stanczak was killed because Taliban prisoners were not released and warning that other foreign hostages could meet the same fate, without claiming to have specific hostages in captivity. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #9 mmmmm pork lard with bacon bits, spread it on rye bread, salt to taste and enjoy! |
| Posted by: Thrish Bluetooth8556 2009-02-08 23:40 |
| #8 Psychological tactics... you mean like head wrapped in pig entrails? Bullets greased by pig fat? Missiles that have a container with pig blood? {The latter 2 can be just rumors ;P] |
| Posted by: Spike Uniter 2009-02-08 22:49 |
| #7 OP, the problem is that they're not afraid to die because they think they go straight to heaven, so you're doing them a favour. The trick is to make them believe that they won't go straight to heaven. Psychological tactics can prove useful here. |
| Posted by: Thrish Bluetooth8556 2009-02-08 22:08 |
| #6 Anyone with the title "Taliban", when captured, should automatically be beheaded after they've been wrung dry for intelligence. The heads should be stacked in a public place, and no one should be allowed to come closer than five paces from the stack. When Hamid complains (he will!), give him the same treatment, and make sure his head remains on the lowest level. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-02-08 21:50 |
| #5 And yet Zero still wants these guys out of Gitmo so they can have "fair" trials monitored by the ACLU. As far as I can tell, Zero hasn't done a damn thing right. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2009-02-08 21:35 |
| #4 yoo-hoo! don't forget us, we're still craaazy! |
| Posted by: flash91 2009-02-08 20:35 |
| #3 Good point DV. The only thing shocking about this story is the realization that this is no longer shocking. |
| Posted by: AuburnTom 2009-02-08 19:25 |
| #2 This doesn't send fear into our hearts anymore guys. It just makes us want to exterminate you as painfully as possible even more. Thanks for the moral boost, fuckheads. I'll be seeing you on the little monitor, screaming and trying to hold your guts in as you bleed out. Have a nice day. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2009-02-08 16:42 |
| #1 Considerate of them to remind us why we're hunting these scum to extinction. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2009-02-08 16:22 |