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Afghanistan
UN investigates outbreak of savagery
2011-04-03
The United Nations has launched an investigation into why Afghan jobsworths police failed to stop a massacre of its staff by Muslim 'Kill Teams' protesters who broke into its Mazar-i-Sharif compound on Friday. Eyewitnesses said armed Afghan men whose sole interest lies in cashing their paychecks riot police soiled themselves in terror watched passively as a mob overran the compound. Video footage broadcast on Afghan television showed armed police in disarray, some firing in the air, while barbarians baying for blood protestors atop the security walls used cable-cutters to dismantle barbed wire and toppled a guard tower inside a compound corner. One protester was shown throwing a tantrum smashing a machine against a kerb in a fit of anger.

Police said their firing in the air and at the legs of some of the protesters had caused some to go one way, some to go another several thousand to flee but several hundred remained and overran the compound.

On any normal working day, there would have been 15 UN international staff and around 40 Afghan nationals working inside the compound, but on Friday, part of the Afghan weekly festival of mayhem and murder weekend, there were far fewer.
Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418

#12  Time to leave. Let the savages kill one another.
NO, past time.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2011-04-03 21:37  

#11  Time to leave. Let the savages kill one another.
Posted by: remoteman   2011-04-03 21:06  

#10  I think I smell a Sternly Worded Memo in the offing...
Posted by: mojo   2011-04-03 17:48  

#9  The UN Investigates Instigates Outbreak of Savagery,

Fixed it. I guess like SA, the line "reap what you sow" is not in their holy books.
Posted by: regular joe   2011-04-03 17:11  

#8  "The UN's chief envoy to Afghanistan, Staffan de Mistura, blamed Friday's violence in the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif on the Florida pastor who burnt the Koran on 20 March.

'I don't think we should be blaming any Afghan,' Mr de Mistura said. 'We should be blaming the person who produced the news - the one who burned the Koran. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from offending culture, religion, traditions.'"

From the BBC. Those lynched deserve sympathy, but the UN is indeed full of predictably craven idiots. No, we can't blame the blood-soaked beheading monsters, let's point the finger of blame at some US priest who engages in archetypal non-violent protest.
Posted by: Bulldog   2011-04-03 13:33  

#7  "Send in Judge Richard Goldstone!"
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-04-03 12:54  

#6  The UN will end up blaming the pastor, methinks.

Strikes me that it is like blaming the rape victim for the rape. Like Besoeker says the Aghans would say: "Violence are us." (and always has been).

Personally, I think we should have said phueck em after 911 and removed the mountains from one end of Afghanistan to the other. Maybe northern Pakistan as well. If you are not winning the war, then you are not causing the other side enough pain.
Posted by: JohnQC   2011-04-03 10:56  

#5  Did the UN blame Newsweek for the deaths after the fabricated 'flushed Koran' story? /rhet question
Posted by: Procopius2k   2011-04-03 10:43  

#4  Video footage broadcast on Afghan television showed armed police in disarray, some firing in the air, while protestors atop the security walls used cable-cutters to dismantle barbed wire and toppled a guard tower inside a compound corner.

But that would mean that the attack was planned, the protest used as cover and the cops either complicit or reluctant to "shoot their own" (or be targeted for later retribution). That concept would run counter to the existing group-think.

The UN will end up blaming the pastor, methinks.
Posted by: Pappy   2011-04-03 10:36  

#3  All very, so very sad. We do not understand them, and they do not understand us or the "democracy" we are attempting to thrust upon them. The sooner we depart, the better for both parties involved. Nothing will change in Afghanistan. Little has ever changed. The butcher's bill for this disaster is a national disgrace, as are those who label it "the good war." The entire region isn't worth the life of a single 20 year old soldier. When we depart, and we eventually will, the tribes will return to their slaughter, narcotics running, smuggling, and kidnapping. It's what they do and have always done. Some things are beyond repair. Afghanistan is excellent example.
Posted by: Besoeker   2011-04-03 10:04  

#2  And the end result of the investigation will be a Strongly Worded Diplomatic Memorandum, which will not assign blame to anyone (except maybe the pastor who burned the Koran).
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2011-04-03 09:35  

#1  Oh no! They have decided to launch an investigation! The Afghans responsible had better watch out, or the UN might hit them with a thoroughgoing study!

And, if the fecal matter hits the windsock, the UN might launch an aggressive subcommittee meeting and issue a pre-report on related cost effectiveness that will bring the killer to their knees!

In laughter! Or boredom!
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-04-03 09:06  

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