Taliban threatens to kill US soldier

[WillieW]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090716/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan

By AMIR SHAH, Associated Press Writer Amir Shah, Associated Press Writer – 57 mins ago
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.

Also Thursday, Canadian authorities announced that a Canadian soldier was killed southwest of Kandahar, bringing to 47 the number of international troops killed in Afghanistan this month. That makes July the deadliest month of the war for foreign troops — with nearly half the month to go.

The Taliban claimed last week to be holding the American 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

[AzDar]

1. Barbarism! Torturing and killing ! Why can't they treat prisoners the way we...

Oops... never mind.

:puke:

[timeforpeace]

2. The Taliban wouldn't do this if we hadn't waterboarded that guy?

[Xenotime]

3. Exactly. We are the real terrorists in the world.

[SIMPLYB1980]

4. Of course they would torture and kill him regardless of weather

we have tortured some of their people. Still doesn't make it right. I hope he makes it out alive, but things don't look good for him.