At 03:07 PM 10/5/2001 +1000, Miriam English wrote:
>I am a little worried by something a friend said to me recently that the
>Northern Afgani rebels who are being backed by the West are actually worse
>than the Taliban, in that they use murder, rape, and pillage in the normal
>course of war (the Taliban though wicked, cruel, and murderous had some
>restraint at least). I have no idea if what he said is true, but if he is
>then hold onto your hats everybody -- here we go again... prepare for
>worse killers being equipped by the "goodies" again.
The Taliban are not restrained.
"YOU must become so notorious for bad things that when you come into an
area people will tremble in their sandals. Anyone can do beatings and
starve people. I want your unit to find new ways of torture so terrible
that the screams will frighten even crows from their nests and if the
person survives he will never again have a night's sleep."
See
http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/30/wtal30.xml
-- David Lubkin.
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