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Afghanistan
Gunmen execute 8 in Afghanistan
2006-10-21
Gunmen ambushed a car carrying Afghan civilians working for a remote U.S. military base in eastern Afghanistan and killed eight of them execution-style, a police official said Friday. The victims, who worked for the U.S. military as laborers in the mountainous Korangal area of Kunar province, were killed Thursday while driving home from work, said Abdul Saboor, Kunar's deputy police chief.

Gunmen stopped the workers' car, searched them and took about $6,000 before gunning them down, said Salehzai Didar, Kunar's governor. Two workers escaped, he said. "This was a shocking attack against these poor people," Saboor said. Saboor did not identify the attackers, other than to describe them as "the enemy."
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#9  [url]http://msns.com[/url]
Posted by: Ebbemp Jealing8797   2006-10-21 09:26  

#8  Haw!
Posted by: Shipman   2006-10-21 17:32  

#7  You have to expect trollery on Saturday, .com. The Kos Kiddies don't attend kindergarten on Saturdays.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2006-10-21 13:00  

#6  trollery
Posted by: .com   2006-10-21 09:30  

#5  Is it possible this was a confrontation between the personnel of two warlords? Are we sure which, if either, was associated with the Taliban?
Posted by: Glenmore   2006-10-21 09:03  

#4  It would also be useful to dust them and collect prints.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-10-21 08:21  

#3  Thinking further (always dangerous this early in the morning), I wonder if the provenance of the baggies and the clips can be traced? It would be fascinating to discover, f'r instance, that the baggies were sourced in Saudi Arabia, but the clips are a style peculiar to Iran.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-10-21 07:42  

#2  It is curious that foreign terrorists would bring American currency in-country, rather than Iraqi dinars (it is dinars, yes?). Were the bills imprinted with "Made in North Korea" in teeny tiny letters along the side, by any chance?
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-10-21 07:39  

#1  $6000 from 8 people? Sheesh, must have been payday.

This reminds me of something very odd that I became aware of in Iraq, sometimes first-hand with my observations confirmed by various GIs I knew.
A very high percentage of dead insurgents, especially Al Qaeda as opposed to the local rats, were carrying large amounts of US currency. This was typically $500 to $800 and sometimes a lot more, always in a clipped roll inside a baggy, and usually in 20s and 50s.
One guy who had a bad encounter with Ma Deuce turned out to have 12 grand on him. I never heard any satisfactory explanation for this and I have never seen anything about it in the western media.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2006-10-21 03:04  

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