Taliban wipe out family during religious observance in cemetery
The Associated Press reports that 14 members of a family were killed by a single bomb during their observance of Eid al-Fitr while they visited the grave of a family member who passed;
It’s unclear why the family was targeted, but they were visiting the grave of a relative, a tribal elder named Haji Khayali who worked for a security company and who was killed by the Taliban earlier this year.
The dead man’s brother, Haji Ghalib, who said his daughter was among those killed Thursday, blamed the Taliban for the attack. Ghalib, who was not with his family when the attack happened, said over the telephone that he also worked at a security company and was a member of a local peace council seeking to reconcile with the insurgents.
Ghalib said he had fought in the war against the Soviet occupation and was also a former inmate at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Imprisoned as a Taliban sympathizer, he was released in 2007 after serving four years.
“My family is finished. These people are inhuman,” he said.
My guess is that this is just a taste of what’s in store for Afghans after the withdrawal of most of the coalition’s forces next year. It’s a tragedy that the people will have to suffer the consequences of the ruling elite who used the US to line their own pockets instead of ridding their country of these animals.
Category: Terror War
The Killing Fields Part 2….
Let’s hear it for Asscrackistan… the most F-ed up place on Earth.
I feel sorry for them, because they are a prime example of stupid being painful. However — what they do in their own country is their business. The problem with that, is that they’ve learned how to get on an airplane and take their brand of stupid to other countries. If they start doing that kind of thing here, we need to step on them with both feet.
And now, the far left loons here will finally get their next Vietnam and sit back while Tal E Bahn wipes out millions of people, huh?
” It’s a tragedy that the people will have to suffer the consequences of the ruling elite who used the US to line their own pockets instead of ridding their country of these animals.”
Roger you last, Jonn.
@3. And therein lies the problem. Currently our national leadership wants to welcome these folks in with open arms vice locked and loaded arms.
“It’s unclear why the family was targeted”.
BULLSHIT:
The family was targeted during a funeral because the Taliban like all other radical Ilamists, hateful Muslims, and terrorists have no humanity and they are barbaric.
Any questions?
Very well.
Carry on!
@6 Correct. If there was ever a time when our government cared about us, and protected and defended us, it’s long past. We are our own protectors and defenders now.
Will we someday have a phony gitmo inmate contest
At least Ghalib’s eyes were finally opened. But at what cost?
Didn’t we push those creatures out once, in the 1990s? I remember the crumbling buildings and destroyed villages after the Taliban were shoved out the door. Then we left, and they came flooding right back in.
The Afghans are going to have to grow a collective spine.
Well, I’ll say this for the bastards, they ain’t got much but they fully use what they got. Islam wasn’t spread with a dull knife and argument. Why would they ever abandon what works? Brutal and unforgiving violence. And we want to hold discussions with them and be reasoned in our approach. Arrrggghhh.
Ghalib is learning that karma is a bitch, and has come full circle for him.
Fuck him and the rest of them. Let them kill one another off.
So . . . is this “The Religion of Peace” in action? After all, the Taliban claim to be “students of Islam” interested in establishing an “Islamic Emirate”.
As Biblically dickish as it is to say it, I’ll do so because it’s true.
One of the axioms I heartily believe in is that a people gets the government it deserves. Now we’ve got our own issues with our own government. We deserve it. Unless and until we, as a people, decide to correct our government, we’re going to have to suck it up and deal with it.
Same thing with the Afghans, the Iraqis, the Egyptians, et al. We can’t go in and FIX it. Lasting change in any country won’t come about while the people are willing to just bend over and take it.
It might not be the government they want, but it’s the government they deserve…until they choose to do something about it.
@14 – Spot on.