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Afghanistan
'UN Office Assailants Were Taliban Militants Who Had Renounced Violence'
2011-04-11
[Tolo News] Some of the Talibs who had joined the grinding of the peace processor were involved in the attack on the UN office in Mazar-e-Sharif, Sherlocks find.

A delegation that was recently sent to the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif to investigate about the deadly attack on the UN office has said some of those who had apparently renounced violence and joined the grinding of the peace processor were involved in the attack and the murder of the UN workers.
Almost as if it were planned that way...
The protest was led by five members of the Clerics Council who had also directed the protesters towards the UN office, the delegation said.

A peaceful protest in reaction to the recent Koran burning by an American pastor was staged in Mazar-e-Sharif on April 1, but it suddenly turned violent with some protesters breaking into the UN office killing 7 foreign workers.
Suddenly... so like the famous unexpectedly.
Head of the UN mission in Afghanistan, Staffan de Mistura, has said the cause of the protests only staged in Afghanistan has to be analysed eventually.

"One day we will have to analyse why the protests only took place in Afghanistan," Mr de Mistura has said.
Because the Taliban instigated the protests, your Aloofness?
According to the delegation visiting Mazar-e-Sharif, the police has tossed in the clink 33 and there is evidence against 15 of them being involved in the violence.
CSI Afghanistan found the blood on their hands had a distinct kufr signature. Either that, or they noticed the spare head in the closet.
"Some of the Talibs who had joined the grinding of the peace processor and were residing in a safe house in Mazar were involved in the attack," a member of the delegation, Rohgul Khairzad, said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38...
the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer...
has written that the violence has showed a disturbing gauge of Taliban influence in Mazar-e-Sharif.

"Whether the killings were planned or not, the violence has proved to be a disturbing gauge of the depths of Taliban influence in this progressive northern city, and of its potential to foment unrest in the months ahead," the Times has written.
Or a gauge of how Pashtun the city is...
Some of the Afghan senators have blamed the provincial security forces and the governor of Balkh for not being able to control the violence.
Posted by:Fred

#4  I am beginning to understand Tamerlane's approach to diplomatic relations with those of the moslem faith(?).

While he was obstensibly moslem, he was first and foremost a Mongol and he didn't believe in the peace process. He exterminated cities. Much as the Assyrians would butcher, impale and carry off into exile entire populations to insure there was never a chance for revolt from the locals...

Why is Christianity and Judaism vilified and Islam is given the kid glove treatment?
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2011-04-11 18:53  

#3  How can you tell if a Talibunny is lying?

1. He's breathing.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2011-04-11 17:42  

#2  Ooops forgot the "m"
Posted by: gr(o)mgoru   2011-04-11 03:53  

#1  Somehow I just can't manage to feel any sympathy for UN---or, indeed, anyone who refuses to admit that Islam is something else.
Posted by: gr(o)goru   2011-04-11 03:52  

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