After this incident last week one wonders if Mullah Omar's orders on treating civilians are followed? I fully accept this is an IO contest.
From the BBC:Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19388869Seventeen civilians have been killed by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, reportedly for attending a party.
The bodies of two women and 15 men were found by the side of a road in the Kajaki district. They were either beheaded or had had their throats cut. Some showed signs of beatings or had gunshot wounds.
Hat tip to Circling the Lion's Den for finding that the Taliban has put forward a different explanation on its website. Spokesman Qari Muhammad Yousuf Ahmadi writes:Afghan boys being dressed up as girls to dance in front of drunken, gun-toting tribesmen? Makes perfect sense to me. File this one under black propaganda ops.A secret music party was organised inside a remote house close to the wells in the desert between Roshanabad and Shah Karez areas of Musa Kala district, Helmand province because no-one can dare to do such a vile thing openly. Around 20 corrupt individuals participated in this event and boys dressed in women clothing were forced to dance. According to information gathered, the said group turned their guns on each other and killed each other around midnight after getting heavily drunk, becoming both the killers and the killed. The government spokesman of Helmand Province promptly and brazenly blamed Mujahideen for this infamous incident which Karzai and others blindly accepted. We once again call on all media outlets to refrain from attributing such reports to the Mujahideen.
Link:http://circlingthelionsden.blogspot....n-helmand.html
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