Taliban Threatens to Kill Captured US Soldier

[tekisui]

Source: AP

KABUL — Local Taliban commanders threatened Thursday to kill a captured American soldier unless the U.S. military stops operations in two districts of southeastern Afghanistan.

The Taliban claimed last week to be holding the soldier, whom the U.S. military earlier described as possibly being in enemy hands.

Abdullah Jalali, a spokesman for Taliban commander Mawlavi Sangin, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Thursday that the soldier was healthy.

He said the soldier would be killed unless the U.S. stops airstrikes in Ghazni province's Giro district and Paktika province's Khoshamand district. Jalali did not explain why the Taliban chose those areas, noting only that Giro has been heavily bombed.

Spokeswoman Capt. Elizabeth Mathias declined to comment on the demands but did say recent operations in Giro district this month did not involve bombings.

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[Lerkfish]

1. see, this is the bitter fruit we harvest when we sow our own torture and murder of captives.

I'm just sayin.

[madokie]

4. I'd be one mad mo fo

if bush/cheney would have come along when I was in the service. Them two needs to hand in a public hanging and I mean every word of that. I don't pray but I do hope and I hope this turns out other than the likely way it will. fuck bush/cheney they are responsible for this.

[Turbineguy]

5. The Taliban were

murdering and torturing people alive long before we got there. They do what they do and they don't need lessons from us.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. What about the Geneva Conventions?

Oh, wait a minute . . . .

[BlooInBloo]

3. Wonder if we can get bush for reckless endangerment on this.