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Afghanistan
Massoud Calls For Execution Of Militants On Death Row
2016-04-21
[Tolo News] President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
's Special Representative on Reform and Good Governance, Ahmad Ziad Massoud, called on the president to sign off on the execution orders of murderous Moslems on death row.

"We have murderous Moslems in our prisons, who have been sentenced to death and who are engineering suicide kabooms. The president should sign off on their execution," he said.

Massoud also said that some elements inside government might have been involved in Tuesday's deadly attack that claimed the lives of at least 64 people and maimed over 340.

He urged security organizations to clear government bodies of Taliban agents.

He said government must adopt a similar approach to the Taliban and suppress bad boys.

"Taliban have penetrated into our security and civil organizations and have paved the ground to carry out their cowardly attacks. Tuesday's attack was the same. Reforms should be brought to security organizations and factors behind the infiltration of the Taliban should end. Unless we seriously fight and eliminate these elements from inside [government], this situation will continue," said Massoud.

Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, a little lightbulb figuratively appeared over Bossy's head...
former chief of the National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS), Rahmatullah Nabil, said in reaction to Tuesday's bombing that if government is true to its people in the fight against terrorism, then it should execute Anas Haqqani, brother of the network's new leader, Sarajuddin Haqqani, who was sentenced to death on terrorism charges just over a year ago.

Haqqani was tossed in the calaboose
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
in Doha, Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
, around 15 months ago and was extradited to Afghanistan where he was sentenced to death.

It is said that the so-called spy chief of Haqqani network, through mediation of Sayed Hamid Gailani, deputy leader of Mahaz Milli Islami Party, has visited Kabul
...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either....
four times to negotiate the release of Haqqani allegedly with the National Security Advisor Mohammad Hanif Atmar.

"We have a government. We have a system and we have a judiciary. If the court has given them the death penalty and they have been found guilty, we have nothing to say. However,
the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach...
there should be no accusation. Don't spuriously accuse me and Atmar for this. I reject this," said Gailani.

He stressed the need for the continuation of peace talks with Taliban leaders.

A number of former officials meanwhile said that not executing murderous Moslems who have been sentenced to death will negatively affect the morale of security forces.

"It's good that Anas Haqqani hasn't been released so far. Existence of a large number of murderous Moslems in prisons and keeping them for years, who have already been sentenced to death, will create desperation among security forces," said Mirza Mohammad Yarmand, a former deputy minister at the Ministry of Interior (MoI).

Massoud meanwhile stressed that former Jihadi forces can play an effective role in ensuring the security of Afghanistan.
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