Rare Glimpse Of The Taliban Air Force

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Afghan Real Estate

Caves with a view, wide open areas to play and scheme against the Great Satan, communal stoning pits, and, best of all, instant ammunition should a Joo move in next door!

Everything within a stones throw away!

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Afghan Torture Tape

I'm an advocate of waterboarding and other interrogation techniques, but this is really going too far!

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The Kite Runner

I'd been putting off watching this movie. I feared it was one of those propaganda type films that would attempt to put Islam in a good light while demonizing all things Western. That was the case with an Islamic version of Oliver Twist I watched a few months ago in which all the good people were devout Muslims while Fagin and his thieving hoodlums were all Infidels.

The Kite Runner surprised me. Based on a book by Khaled Hosseini, the story is about a young man returning to Afghanistan to find the son of a childhood friend. In an act that requires the courage he regretfully lacked in his youth, the protagonist must contend with the Taliban to save the boy.

While there are subtle hints of Islam, there are also subtle hints of the destructiveness of religious fervor. A woman is stoned to death in a soccer stadium execution. Ironically, that disturbing, graphic scene has gained little mention, while a non-graphic scene of a boy being raped resulted in the movie being banned in Afghanistan. The Afghan government feared ethnic violence if the film was shown. There was no such concerns for the execution scene. It was Islamic Law, being carried out in an Islamic country.

The movie gives one a glimpse into life in Afghanistan, both before and after the rise of the Taliban. It is about betrayal and redemption, disgrace and honour, turmoil and peace. Certainly worth a rental.

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Mullah Helpfully Removes His Genes From the Human Gene Pool

I love a story with a happy ending...

A LANDMINE blew up in the home of a religious cleric in southern Afghanistan, killing the mullah, two of his sons and two other men who had been preparing an attack, police said today.

The cleric's wife was critically wounded in the blast in their compound in the southern province of Helmand late yesterday, and a daughter was hurt, provincial police chief General Mohammad Hussein Andiwal said.

http://www.news.com.au - Mullah accidentally blows up self, sons

He removes not only his genes, but also those of his sons. Allah works in mysterious ways. Perhaps he had too many virgins lying around doing nothing?

On a side note, this story reveals one of the few benefits of being a Muslim woman. While the men were busy doing manly things like scheming ways to kill the kuffar, the women were safely hidden away so as not to provoke the visiting Muslims into raping them...

There are just no words to express my joy, except - Allahu Achbar!

;)

Afghan Student Sentenced to Death Printing Paper That 'Humiliated Islam'

What cowards Muslims are, not just the ones pressing for this young man's execution, but the students who complained, and our so-called "moderate" Muslims in the West who are doing nothing to stop this travesty of justice.

Is Islam so weak and fragile that a printed piece of paper from the internet can humiliate it? Are Muslims so delicate that someone else reading this same piece of paper causes enough grief and hurt feelings that an innocent life must be extinguished?

These are the people we are giving lives to save and billions of dollars to help. This is the religion of peace. This is Islam.

An Afghan court on Tuesday sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death for distributing a paper he printed off the Internet that three judges said violated the tenets of Islam, an official said.

The three-judge panel sentenced Sayad Parwez Kambaksh to death for distributing a paper that humiliated Islam, said Fazel Wahab, the chief judge in the northern province of Balkh, where the trial took place. Wahab did not preside over the trial.

Kambaksh's family and the head of a journalists group denounced the verdict and said Kambaksh was not represented by a lawyer at trial. Members of a clerics council had been pushing for Kambaksh to be punished.

The case now goes to the first of two appeals courts, Wahab said. Kambaksh, who has been jailed since October, will remain in custody during appeal.

Wahab said he did not immediately have the details of the paper that Kambaksh circulated, other than that it was against Islam. Kambaksh discussed the paper with his teacher and classmates at Balkh University and several students complained to the government, Wahab said.

http://news.yahoo.com

Taliban Beheads 7 Year-Old Child

Always finding ways of taking the bar of Islamist savagery up a notch when you think they've gone as far as they can go, the Taliban has beheaded a 7 year-old child and his grandmother, supposedly for spying for the Afghan government and for NATO forces.


To suggest that replacing the image of Nick Berg in the photo above with one of a 7 year-old child and his grandmother puts a lump the throat is an understatement beyond measure. (Source: the Daily Mail)

Religion of Peace Demands Death Penalty For "Koran Abuse"

Apparently, a more tolerant version of the Muslim Holy book amounts to an insult worthy of execution.

More than 1,000 university students demonstrated in eastern Afghanistan Sunday to demand the death penalty for an official accused of insulting the Koran, police and witnesses said.

The attorney general's spokesman, former journalist Mohammad Ghaws Zalmai, was arrested at the Pakistan border a week ago trying to flee after being accused of misinterpreting the Muslim holy book in a new translation.

"Death to Ghaws Zalmai!" shouted the angry mob in the eastern town of Jalalabad, an AFP reporter in the crowd said. "We want him hanged!"

"He has insulted our religion and must be killed," the group said.

The demonstrators blocked a main road linking the eastern town to the capital, Kabul, for several hours. Dozens of police officers were on hand to prevent violence.

The conservative parliament last week banned Zalmai from leaving the country days after the distribution of about 6,000 copies of his Dari-language translation, called "Koran-i-Pak" or "clean Koran".

http://news.yahoo.com

Remembering Fallen Heroes

Meet "Q", the creator of www.iraqwarheroes.org website. "Q" dedicates his website to "our deceased heroes that served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom."

If you would like to help out or just show your support, please visit the site.

"Q" also operates www.vietnamwarheroes.org.

U.S. Military Offering Bounties For Taliban Leaders

Civilians can receive up to $200,000 for information leading to the capture of Taliban and al-Qaida leaders:

BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AP) -- The U.S. military has launched a new "Most Wanted" campaign offering rewards of up to $200,000 for information leading to the capture of 12 Taliban and al-Qaida leaders.

Posters and billboards are being put up around eastern Afghanistan with the names and pictures of the 12, with reward amounts ranging from $20,000 to $200,000.

"We're trying to get more visibility on these guys like the FBI did with the mob," said Lt. Col. Rob Pollock, a U.S. officer at the main American base in Bagram. "They operate the same way the mob did, they stay in hiding."

The list does not include internationally known names who already have large price tags on their heads like al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden - who has evaded U.S. capture since 2001 despite a $25 million bounty - or Taliban leader Mullah Omar with a $10 million reward.

Instead the list is filled with local insurgent cell leaders responsible for roadside and suicide bomb attacks.

"We want the people in that area to know who this guy is and know he's a bad guy, and when they spot him to turn that guy in," said Maj. Chris Belcher, a U.S. spokesman.

The program, in the works for weeks, comes despite peace overtures from President Hamid Karzai, who on Sunday said he would be willing to meet with Omar if it would help bring peace.

The posters and billboards will be put up by Afghan soldiers and police in areas where the military suspects the men are operating, said Belcher. Some on the list are also suspected to operate in Pakistan's tribal regions, where the U.S. military does not have the authority to operate.

The U.S. says it has killed around 50 mostly mid-level insurgent leaders over the past year, a strategy the military is continuing to push with the Most Wanted rewards program.

TBO.com

Taliban Using Children As Shields

(Hat Tip: Sir PATRIOT)

KABUL - The U.S.-led coalition accused the Taliban of using children as human shields during a battle in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, while NATO said it was investigating a shipment of weapons intercepted near the border with Iran this month.

The fighting in Uruzgan province began when more than 20 insurgents armed with machine-guns, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars attacked a joint Afghan and coalition patrol Wednesday morning, the coalition said in a statement.

As a coalition aircraft prepared to bomb the site, "coalition forces as well as the aircraft identified several insurgents in one compound using children as human shields," it said. Ground forces and the aircraft withheld fire to avoid injuring the children. It was impossible to independently verify the coalition allegations.

The Canadien Press