Source: New York Times

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — The bodies of 18 people believed to be Taliban militants were found in the streets in Pakistan’s Swat region on Sunday, and the police said they may have been killed in retaliation for the Taliban’s harsh rule.

One body was in the main town of Mingora, seven in Kanju town and the rest in four other villages.

Maj. Nasir Khan of the Pakistani Army’s Swat Media Center said that the military had nothing to do with the deaths and theorized that residents who had suffered under the Taliban — which banned music, burned girls’ schools and killed anyone who resisted its interpretation of Islamic law — were taking revenge on the militants.


Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/world/asia/17pstan.html

It will take the general population turning against these thugs to actually get anywhere. Sounds as if they're getting there.

is hardly a big dent, and retaliation from the Taliban is often more harsh and sweeping

but until the general population starts fighting back against the thugs, it simply will not matter. If retaliation is a problem, the government should make sure the population is either protected or armed.

They are the victims of the Taliban - of fundamentalists everywhere.

While I hold no fondness for our own fundies, they are not keeping girls from going to school by throwing acid in their faces and burning down the buildings. The Taliban, on the other hand, are monstrous and deserve a bazooka to the groin.

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dunno why the mods deleted this post on another thread.

Guess the ""Marines send in an Amazon brigade" wasn't worth viewing as a sensible way to win hearts and minds....or selling out the righteous ones.



According to many posters, the Taliban hold the moral high ground over those backwater people.

I suspect that this is just the beginning.

It seems just as likely to have been extrajudicial executions by the military. And the military shrugs its shoulders and says maybe the civilians did it. Yeah, right.

give or take a couple of weeks;

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3818603&mesg_id=3818603

The ISI is on notice. I wonder who will be collecting the bounty rewards on these freedom fighters

Isn't Mexico supposed to be collapsing right now, too?