I think the key word in Purple's original post is "Militants" an oddly fudged term.
I wouldn't be surprised if these people were not even local if they're caught.
Because this wasn't about getting a police car for use in an attack.
They could have stolen any police car for use in such an attack.
That was a cover story - an excuse - for hanging a child.
Presumably the child was a Muslim child - on the balance of probability.
I have met and gotten to know many Muslims over my 50-odd years.
Some dislike America and the RECENT atrocities it has committed.
None would even contemplate a crime against a fellow Muslim, never mind a child.
To suggest these "Militants" equate with or are typical of ANY Muslims or Afghanis is a terrible slur on that people and that religion.
Its is blinkered Western thinking at its worst.
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People simply cannot believe the cruel heartlessness of the psychopathic Tribal Warlords running Afghanistan outside of the cities.
They may also be unknowing of he American/UK strategy which invaded Afghanistan on the pretext of getting an oil pipeline across it.
One of two pipelines, the other was to cross the Balkans and we all saw what happened in that unfortunate part of the world to achieve
The prime movers in the middle east are internal looking for recognition and/or support {Saudi Arabia, Taliban, Pakistan Junta}.
They are also external and their interests centre on oil and the endgame is spreading power and influence and making vast profits.
Power and money. Money and power. Oil is the currency of choice at the moment and people are merely tools to be used or collateral damage.
Oh, and I nearly forgot, the control of Opium-growing regions in the region was not an oversight but an end in itself.
The "secret" history of the original encounters with the Taliban - who were not planning on bombing anybody in the US as far as I can determine - is now so well known that simply putting in the search term
"bury you under a carpet of bombs" gets thousands of hits.
This in itself is a bit of myth-making fostered by the Americans - "this is what happens if you mess with us" but given that it has never been contradicted publicly (please update me if you can find some evidence of that) I would accept it as far as it goes.
Oil References:
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Balkan Pipeline
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From The Asia Times
November 20, 2001
"At one moment during the negotiations, the US representatives told the Taliban, 'either you accept our offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs,'" Brisard said in an interview in Paris.
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http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/issue46/articles/real_reasons_oil_french_book.htm
"U.S. dependence on Middle East oil is not a secret. The U.S. national energy policy, released by the Bush administration earlier this year, stated, "The Gulf will be a primary focus of U.S. international energy policy."
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Opium References:
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Both the British and Americans supported the local warlords by buying their Cash Crop - OPIUM - for several years - before considering legalising it in 2007. Englands love affair with the plant and how it can be used to destabilise and control entire populations [both foreign and indigenous] goes back to a certain Scottish man around the time of the Boxer Rebellions.
From The Independent - Asia Section -
Sunday, 1 April 2007
[broken link removed]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium
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Don't ever assume that the cruel hanging of a child means anything more to these heartless creatures than a manipulation of the mood of the local population.
America/UK has misjudged the Muslim world - it wanted a war with Militant Islam, only to find that most Muslims are peaceful, far more so than Christians under similar circumstances.
External enemies are hard to find these days, and without enemies, your own subject populations will question the money spent on the military budgets at a time when their backs are to the wall financially.
With the plug finally being pulled on the American Troops abroad and still no sign of a third world Christian/Muslim Religious war, the powers that be are getting desperate.
Atrocities - like the ones in Norway and this strocious hanging, will happen more frequently, and America will try to destabilize the world economy once again.
Its always easier to get people to fight for a cause, even one they don't believe in, when they have no food in their bellies or money in the bank.
Expect America to default in its debt in August, or appear to do so, and watch the world teeter on the brink.
Banking Crisis 1907 - WWI 1914-1918
Wall Street Crash 1929 - WWII 1939-1945
World Economic Crisis 2008 - WWIII 2012-2018?
"Outrageous! The world isn't run by a handful of American Oil Magnates and Bankers!" I hear you say.
We'll wait and see, but I for one won't be surprised when it happens.
And now, at least, neither will ye.
ONQ.