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Afghanistan
Afghan Villagers Stone a Taliban Commander to Death
2011-08-23
It's the feel good story of the day...
The Helmand episode began Sunday evening when two armed insurgents roared up on a motorcycle to a mosque in the village of Trekh Zaber, where Yaar Muhammad, a local farmer, and his two sons were waiting to celebrate Iftar, the evening breaking of the daily fast during the holy month of Ramadan.

The men ordered Mr. Muhammad to come to them, and as he did, they fired their weapons, killing him instantly, said Hajji Hayatullah, a district council member. As Mr. Muhammad fell, his sons jumped the two gunmen and pulled them off their motorcycle. Other villagers joined in, officials said, beating the men to death with stones.
Posted by:tu3031

#3  "When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier."


The women might not use the stones, JFM.
Posted by: Skidmark   2011-08-23 19:01  

#2  A first step. Second one would be: Afghan men deliver a Taliban commander and a truck load of stones to a group of women.
Posted by: JFM   2011-08-23 12:07  

#1  This would only really matter if after killing them, they broke with tradition and erected their dead bodies as scarecrows, or at a minimum, left them out to be eaten by animals.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-08-23 11:35  

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