What a peace message from the Taliban looks like.
So it seems that the Taliban have killed Burhanuddin Rabbani, chairman of Afghanistan’s High Peace Council
Rabbani, a former Afghan national leader, was killed and his deputy wounded as “they met two men who said they had come from Quetta, Pakistan, with a peace message from the Taliban,” said council member Habibullah Fawzi. Kabul police spokesman Hashmatullah Stanekzai said the men hid at least one bomb in their turbans, which guards failed to search when the men entered the home.
Are we talking notes? If anyone thinks that the Taliban wants peace were they do not have control of everything is only fooling themselves.
Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, a former presidential candidate and Northern Alliance leader, summed up the sentiments heard from many Northern Alliance figures in the wake of the assassination: “This is a lesson for all of us that we shouldn’t fool ourselves that this group, who has carried out so many crimes against the people of Afghanistan, are willing to make peace.”
Dr. Abdullah added: “We have to be realistic about what we are up against. We are up against people who don’t believe in any humanity. They assassinate people on the streets of Kabul, they assassinate those trying to achieve peace.” Last spring the Taliban had proclaimed that they would kill members of the High Peace Council.
“No one took it seriously and they should have and it is also time for President Karzai to wake up,” he said. “These are the people who he calls his ‘dear brothers,’ they are behind what happened.” He referred to President Hamid Karzai’s predilection for calling the insurgents “dear brothers” or “upset brothers.”
If I another video that tries to say some useless feel good message as a legit solution for Afghanistan it will be too soon.
Here is a interview with the late Burhanuddin Rabbani.
He was quoted with saying the following below before the suicide bomber attack.
“Especially in our country, there are a number of individuals who kill Muslims in the name of Muslims. We should take a clear stand against this new phenomenon when the killing of Muslims is seen as something allowable,” said Mr. Rabbani, a former jihadist and Afghan president who, for the past year, had sought in vain to negotiate with insurgents as head of Afghanistan’s High Peace Council
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****ing animals
This is a very bad omen. Rabbani was the former leader with the Northern Alliance and all around big Kahuna. The enemy’s ablity to target VIPs has gotten that much better. I thought just a few months ago they had started regulary checking Turbans, previously a taboo, because suicide bombers were resorting to it for their bombs.
So Obama, how great did you say those talks were going again?
The killing of Muslims by Muslims has been going on since sand was invented so I don’t understand what Rabbani meant by describing that as a new phenomenon. Is it that he would prefer Muslim kill only non-Muslims? If someone could explain this, I would appreciate it. And if someone could let me know just who the good guys are in these conflicts (aside from our troops, that is), I would be most grateful.
I think that it might be that a lot of people in the middle east turn a willful blind eye to it. He statement I think is trying to get that across rather then try to say that this is something new.
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