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Breaking: Claim – Taliban murders hostages in Afghanistan

By Michelle Malkin • July 21, 2007 10:07 AM

A purported Taliban spokesman said the hard-line militia killed two German hostages on Saturday because Germany didn’t announce a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The Afghan government, however, said one of the Germans died of a heart attack and that the second was still alive…

…Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, who claims to be a Taliban spokesman, said fighters had fatally shot the Germans, who were kidnapped on Wednesday along with five Afghan colleagues in the southern province of Wardak while working on a dam project.

“The German and Afghan governments didn’t meet our conditions, they didn’t pull out their troops,” Ahmadi told The Associated Press by telephone from an undisclosed location.

Ahmadi offered no proof of the killings and said the Taliban would give further information about the two bodies later.

The Afghan Foreign Ministry said he was lying.

“The information that we and our security forces have is that one of these two who were kidnapped died of a heart attack,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Sultan Ahmad Baheen said. “The second hostage is alive and we hope that he will be released soon and we are trying our best to get him released.”

German Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Jeager said a crisis team was pursuing “every clue” and was in close contact with the Afghan government.

Meanwhile, The Jawa Report calls attention to 18 members of a South Korean Presbyterian churches who were kidnapped while on a mission trip from Kabul to Khandahar.

The jihadi ultimatum has been issued: Convert or die.

The Taleban forbid Christians from entering Afghanistan to convert Muslims, under threat of death. Yesterday Sayed Murard Shrifi, a religious cleric who is head of the public court in Baghlan, said: “In terms of punishment the one who comes to a Muslim country to convert people to their religion must face the strongest punishment. The first choice is death and the second life in prison.”

Haven’t heard much of a human rights uproar, have you?

The hostage-takers are getting their wishes:

South Korea’s troops run a hospital for Afghan civilians at the U.S. base at Bagram, and the facility has treated over 240,000 patients. The kidnapped civilians are not affiliated with the military.

South Korean Foreign Minister Song Min-soon reiterated Seoul’s plans to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by the end of this year as scheduled, hoping to appease the militants.

“The government is in preparations to implement its plan,” he said.

Submission.

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#1

On July 21st, 2007 at 10:52 am, almeehan said:

I frequently work in Thailand and have friends from S Korea who are Christian missionaries from that church. They help establish churches and do humanitarian projects as well. They will need our prayers in the hands of these evil people.
#2

On July 21st, 2007 at 11:22 am, hadsil said:

Haven’t heard much of a human rights uproar, have you?

Human rights abuses have been cured wordwide except for two countries, the US and Israel. Didn’t you know that?
#3

On July 21st, 2007 at 11:46 am, 3Steps said:

rofl @ hadsil!!!
#4

On July 21st, 2007 at 11:54 am, PhillytoDC said:

Sick all around
#5

On July 21st, 2007 at 12:04 pm, josetheguerilla said:

I will not submit!!!!!!!!!
#6

On July 21st, 2007 at 12:08 pm, Gabe said:

On CAIR’s website, they are whining right now because in all of America (300,000,000 people), ONE person wrote graffiti on a Muslim’s car. This is supposed to show how “Islamophobic” our nation is, despite the fact they can worship, proselytize, and become citizens as they please.

Meanwhile, not a peep from CAIR about the kidnappings in Afghanistan.
#7

On July 21st, 2007 at 12:29 pm, darwin said:

“Islamophobic” is a misnomer.

A Phobia is “A persistent, abnormal, and irrational fear of a specific thing or situation that compels one to avoid it, despite the awareness and reassurance that it is not dangerous.”

Fear or wariness of Islam is not abnormal, or irrational. There has also been no reason to assume it is not dangerous. Indeed, it’s the fear of being called a silly name that seems to be a more accurate description of a phobia, as in Political Correctnessophobia.

Not to be wary of Islam is abnormal or irrational. CAIR has it backwards.

Islam has given rational people more than enough reason to be wary of it … and to determine that it must be fought at all costs.
#8

On July 21st, 2007 at 3:00 pm, Loose Cannon said:

If we grant the CAIR apologists their argument that it is only the “radical minority” of Muslims who want to kill us, will they then disavow the apparently “mainstream” tenets of Sharia, including the obnoxious practice of burying people in the ground up to their shoulders and pelting them with rocks until they die? To name only one such obscenity associated with their wonderful laws…
#9

On July 21st, 2007 at 3:30 pm, Loose Cannon said:

Wait . . in all fairness to Sharia, if the convict(im), while buried in the ground and being stoned, manages to unbind his/her hands, extricate him/herself from the pit and make it across the killing ground and through the ring of drooling morons who are throwing rocks at him, such individual is free to go home. Grace and mercy . . .
#10

On July 21st, 2007 at 6:55 pm, Rick Moran said:

The Taliban have been unable to fight NATO forces and have, in fact, been beaten back rather handily by our boys. Their much touted “Spring Offensive” that the left assured us would be catastrophic was pre-empted brilliantly and it never got going although their infiltration efforts are still meeting with some success.

The reason they appear to be targeting foreigners is because they think the western media has forgotten about them. It remains to be seen if any other NATO countries will give in to their pressure if their nationals are kidnapped. Some of them may be looking for any excuse to get out.
#11

On July 22nd, 2007 at 6:59 am, Dandapani said:

ASSOCIATED with terrorists PRESS is at it again…
#12

On July 22nd, 2007 at 11:24 am, deepdiver said:

Yeah, gotta love appeasement. I don’t understand how the western world got here. When did the majority of western men agree to castration? When was the exact moment we decided to run, cower and capitulate rather than kick a** and obtain victory? As an American in his (very)late 30′s I do not remember that turning point. It just seems to have happened when no one was looking.

There is no winning this right now for the West and it’s allies. When we capitulate over 2 or 15 or 200 or 1,000 hostages and they have thousands upon thousands of loons ready to commit suicide for their cause we can’t win. When we are more concerned about Iranian, Syrian, Turkish and Pakistani borders and their national sovereignty than our own borders and national sovereignty, we can’t win. They understand much better than our media and politicians the old saying that a single death is a tragedy but a million deaths is a statistic.
#13

On July 22nd, 2007 at 11:30 am, walterc said:

So if islam is the only truthful religion, why are they afraid of having the faithful exposed to other religions? Could it be that they know that when given a choice between a truly peaceful religion and sharia, they will convert?

Any imams out out there that can explain this to us? Anyone? Mr. Hooper?

crickets.