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| Afghanistan |
| Kabul Bank Mass Killer Sentenced to Death |
| 2011-06-14 |
| [Tolo News] Kabul Bank attacker in down town Jalalabad, scenic provincial capital in eastern Nangarhar, ...on the main road from Lovely Peshawar. The capital is Jalalabad. The population of 1,334,000 consists mostly of Pashtuns with a few Arabs and Pashais... along with his accomplice were sentenced to death, officials said on Monday. Around four months ago an Islamic exemplar, Zar Ajam, dressed in police uniform and wearing boom jacket stormed into a Kabul Bank branch in downtown Jalalabad and rubbed out nearly 40 civilians with an AK-47. A bigwig in Attorney General's Office said the High Court has issued the death sentence of the convicts, Zar Ajam and Qari Mattiullah, an Afghan who provided him facilitation, for the massacre at the Kabul Bank branch. Nearly 40 civilians, who were visiting the bank, were killed and 73 others were maimed in mid February this year. Officials said Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... would have to sign the death warrant to allow the sentence to be carried out. "The man who carried out the terrorist attack on Kabul Bank branch in Jalalabad, a Pak national, was sentenced to death along with one of his two Afghan controllers, who provided him accommodation," Deputy Attorney General Rahmatullah Nazari said. "After President Karzai signs the death warrant of the convicts, we will make a decision about the location where the punishment should take place, Kabul or Jalalabad," Mr Nazari further said. Victim families in Nangarhar province and some security officials have previously sought rough punishment for the raider. They said the man should be hanged in public to be a lesson to other murderers of innocent civilians. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 should be hanged in public to be a lesson to other murderers Sounds like a pretty good idea. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2011-06-14 07:25 |