KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban hanged a dead body from a crane parked in a city square in Afghanistan on Saturday in a gruesome display that signaled the hard-line group’s return to some of its brutal tactics of the past.
Taliban officials initially brought four bodies to the central square in the western city of Herat, then moved three of them to other parts of the city for public display, said Wazir Ahmad Seddiqi, who runs a pharmacy on the edge of the square.
Taliban officials announced that the four were caught taking part in a kidnapping earlier Saturday and were killed by police, Seddiqi said. Ziaulhaq Jalali, a Taliban-appointed district police chief in Herat, said later that Taliban members rescued a father and son who had been abducted by four kidnappers after an exchange of gunfire. He said a Taliban fighter and a civilian were wounded by the kidnappers, and that the kidnappers were killed in crossfire.
“The aim of this action is to alert all criminals that they are not safe,” a Taliban commander who did not identify himself told the AP in an on-camera interview conducted in the square.
Since the Taliban overran Kabul on Aug. 15 and seized control of the country, Afghans and the world have been watching to see whether they will re-create their harsh rule of the late 1990s, which included public stonings and limb amputations of alleged criminals, some of which took place in front of large crowds at a stadium.
Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, one of the founders of the Taliban and the chief enforcer of its harsh interpretation of Islamic law when they last ruled Afghanistan, told The Associated Press this week that the militant movement will once again carry out executions and amputations of hands, though perhaps not in public.
“Everyone criticized us for the punishments in the stadium, but we have never said anything about their laws and their punishments,” Turabi said. “No one will tell us what our laws should be. We will follow Islam and we will make our laws on the Quran.”
The group’s leaders remain entrenched in a deeply conservative, hard-line worldview, even if they are embracing technological changes, such as video and mobile phones.
President Joe Biden’s administration signaled on Friday that the U.S. would not tolerate the Taliban’s return to their past punishment methods.
“We condemn in the strongest terms reports of reinstating amputations and executions of Afghans,” State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters. “The acts the Taliban are talking about here would constitute clear gross abuses of human rights, and we stand firm with the international community to hold perpetrators of these — of any such abuses — accountable.”
Also Saturday, a roadside bomb hit a Taliban car in the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, wounding at least one person, a Taliban official said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing. The Islamic State group affiliate, which is headquartered in eastern Afghanistan, has said it was behind similar attacks in Jalalabad last week that killed 12 people.
The person wounded in the attack is a municipal worker, Taliban spokesperson Mohammad Hanif said.
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I worked for years with an older German man who made it to the US after WWII. He said that under Herr Hitler street gangs totally vanished. If you committed a robbery you were shot. If there were more than one person it was “a gang” and they were all shot.
He was no fan of National Socialism but he told me there were a lot of people who thought this made Hitler a good “Law and Order” type dictator.
I have heard of similar stories. Not just from grand parents who served in WW2, and talked to locals after liberating germany.. BUT others who lived in similar totalitarian like countries.
>President Joe Biden’s administration signaled on Friday that the U.S. would not tolerate the Taliban’s return to their past punishment methods.
What does “not tolerate” mean? What is Biden going to do if the Taliban does use their past methods? Just like his old boss Obama, Biden is a paper tiger.
I remember back in 2009 (or was it 2010?) when Iran was slaughtering its own people that were protesting. Obama tried to act tough saying, “The world is bearing witness.” I thought, “Huh? Just what is that mean and how is that going to help?”
“Not tolerate” in this context means “will not report”.
Not tolerate means he will say some nasty words, and that’s it.
What’s Biden going to do? Same as always, lie about it, then take a much needed nap!
Hey, Jen Psaki—how’s that professional and businesslike Taliban group looking now?
And, Disjointed Chief of Staff, Mark Milley—you still thinking we can possibly work with them down the road?
What sheer, unadulterated stupidity exhibited by people who should know a lot better.
“President Joe Biden’s administration signaled on Friday that the U.S. would not tolerate the Taliban’s return to their past punishment methods.” Yeah—let Joe Biden flex his muscle and issue his stern decrees and watch the world shake in its shoes.
IF psaki really likes the taliban that much< HOWS about we send her OVER TO KABUL to be THEIR spokeswoman!
being bidens spokesperson-is the same as being for the taliban
the only people in the world that fear biden are little children and women-
The only ones that fear biden are little children and women
the end
What do you mean, “What happened to Joe’s new Taliban?”
THIS IS what (those of us with brains) KNEW would happen (especially after pulling out our Military FIRST, and leaving all of the military equipment behind)!
Only a complete DOOFUS (aka, Biden and the Democrats) would think the Taliban would turn into the United Nations!
Meet the new taliban. SAME AS the old!
Send the imbecile over and let em hang his pos ***!
Jane Fonda praised the wonderful Vietnamese communists.
40% of the casualties of the Vietnam war happened after it was “over.” 900,000 people disappeared — including my wife’s aunt, uncle, and five cousins.
My father-in-law had been conscripted by the Viet Minh i the early 1950’s. He deserted. My mother-in-law hid him in the garden. The communists tried to find him — using a pick axe. Later, he worked as a cook for a French army unit. So he was on their sh!t list.
When my wife’s family left Saigon, her dad gave the house to his sister. When the communists showed up looking for him, they found her and her family instead. They asked for the deed. She showed them my father-in-law’s papers. Of course, her name wasn’t there. She told them he had given it to her. There were no documents because the family had left Saigon in a hurry. So the communists quartered a platoon in her house. She and her family had to live in the kitchen for nine years. In 1984, we got a letter saying she had gotten permission to leave. About a month later, one of her sons returned to another cousin, in very bad mental and physical state. He never spoke again, and died about a month later.
The Taliban are no better than the Viet Cong. But Democrats love them both.
Compare Newt’s book, ” Trump’s America” to Biden’s America with Joe’s, and Dem legislated rotten to the core legalized policies?
Dem loving Media Moguls, and the exploiters of our citizens beginning with kindergarteners love Dem Legislated bad laws.
The Nazi government, and supreme court also like the Dems passed over 400 laws legalizing the holocaust and atrocities. The Media in all venues, textbooks ,educators normalized this Nazi legislated evil to the majority in Nazi Germany just like the Dems have here . In 2019 doctors and nurses aborted 42 million babies worldwide by Government legislation ,and Supreme Court Decree.
Remember our Chief Counsel Robert H. Jackson indicting Nazi leaders at The Nuremberg War Criminals Trials with his argument of our God given right to life, regardless of the Nazi Government and Supreme Court passing Dem Party type atheist secular legislation into law. Our children should not be indoctrinated into Biden youth by educators. Biden’s Dem government legislation is doing this.
” The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke
If good people fail, then Dems will continue to legislate the immorality that is destroying our society.
Unfortunately, it seems more and more, the ‘good folk’, have been weeded out…
WHAT DID YOU EXPECT FROM A FAILURE POLITICIAN FOR 47 YEARS, this is what you get from an ALZHEIMER POSTER CHILD WHO CAN’T REMEMBER WHAT DAY OR WHERE HE IS MOST OF THE TIME, he can’t even have a press conference without having his IDIOTS HANDLERS who tell him who he should take his questions from.
“President Joe Biden’s administration signaled on Friday that the U.S. would not tolerate the Taliban’s return to their past punishment methods.”
LOL, I’d love to hear what “his” administration proposes to do about it, now that we’ve turned tail and left them Billions of dollars worth of military hardware. I’m sure a Strongly Worded Letter™ would be very effective.
AND You can bet, it won’t do jack squat, to stop the commucrats, sending yet MORE BILLIONS In “foreign aid” to them.
The Taliban are the same old BARBARIC, SAVAGES that they have ALWAYS been ! To think or say that they have changed is incredibly stupid. Those people who are apparently still living in the 7th or 8th Century will NEVER change !
The ONLY change that would ever work with them, is that change what takes someone from LIVING TO DEAD!
should have been george floyd