Taliban hang 7-year-old boy accused of being a spy

[classicman]

A 7-year-old boy accused of being a spy was hanged by Taliban militants, according to published reports Thursday.

The child was allegedly put on trial by the militant group and later found guilty of working for Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai's government, reports the Daily Mail.

Karzai called the act a "crime against humanity."

"I don't think there's a crime bigger than that that even the most inhuman forces on earth can commit," Karzai said.

The child was publicly hanged in the Taliban stronghold of Helmand province, a local official told The Associated Press.

"A 7-year-old boy cannot be a spy," Karzai added. "A 7-year-old boy cannot be anything but a seven-year-old boy, and therefore hanging or shooting to kill a seven-year-old boy... is a crime against humanity."

As if that wasn't bad enough ...

A deadly suicide bombing of an Afghan wedding celebration late Wednesday targeted an anti-Taliban village where U.S. Special Forces had built up a local militia that kept insurgents at bay.
Many of this militia's members as well as Afghan policemen were among at least 40 dead and over 70 wounded in the attack in Nagahan village, north of Kandahar city.

The bombing undermined coalition efforts to stabilize Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban movement and its strategic heartland.

"The savage Taliban targeted the wedding to take revenge on the people of Nagahan, who are united and are government allies," said Zalmai Ayoubi, the spokesman for Kandahar's provincial government.

The groom in Nagahan had invited numerous members of the militia and of the Afghan police, according to Mr. Ayoubi and Sardar Mohammed Zazi, the Kandahar police chief. The groom survived but was injured. At least 14 children died in the attack, officials said.

A local police chief was among the dead, while the head of the local militia, Hajji Mohammed Naji Kako, didn't attend the wedding and was unhurt, said Hajji Mohammed Nabi, a local tribal leader and the militia's former commander.

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I heard this am that the suicide bomber was a 14 year old boy.
WTF? How does one reason with people like this.

[Cloud]

reason with fanatics? are you joking? not possible.

Very tragic.

[lookout123]

Originally Posted by classicman

WTF? How does one reason with people like this.

By very reasonably lowering them into a grave. Or at least pieces of them.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Yep; that's sure how to be popular.

Same stories, 'nother link, to the Talibs hanging a seven-year-old kid.

Pack 250g Semtex up their asses and touch it off, by the ripple. Those fools have never figured that their fanaticism would engender a mirroring fanaticism rising up to oppose them. That kind never do.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by classicman

How does one reason with people like this.

Originally Posted by lookout123

By very reasonably lowering them into a grave. Or at least pieces of them.

Throw a reasonably-sized hand grenade to/at them...

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by classicman

I heard this am that the suicide bomber was a 14 year old boy.
WTF? How does one reason with people like this.

Ask Dick Cheney. He'd execute a 7 year old boy. I'll bet some Cellarites would, too.

[lookout123]

Well, sure that's a reasonable statement Spexx.

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Ask Dick Cheney. He'd execute a 7 year old boy. I'll bet some Cellarites would, too.

A bit of a stretch, spexx.

Cheney only authorized detaining minors...some as young as 14

Guantanamo Children

and using enhanced interrogation techniques (torture) on some, one to the point that he committed suicide.

And, I do recall some Cellarites having no problem with torture.

[lookout123]

Good memory. I don't.

Originally Posted by lookout123

Good memory. I don't.

Selective memory loss?

[lookout123]

Not at all. I quite clearly remember saying I don't have a problem with enhanced interrogation techniques(torture if you prefer) under certain circumstances.

Originally Posted by lookout123

Not at all. I quite clearly remember saying I don't have a problem with enhanced interrogation techniques(torture if you prefer) under certain circumstances.

Do you have a lower age limit for torture? Bush/Cheney evidently didnt.

[xoxoxoBruce]

If you think a 14 year old Taliban soldier, isn't just as dangerous as a 28 year old Taliban soldier, you are mistaken. In most of the World, a 14 year old is expected to carry his share of the load, unlike here where we insist they are children.

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

If you think a 14 year old Taliban soldier, isn't just as dangerous as a 28 year old Taliban soldier, you are mistaken. In most of the World, a 14 year old is expected to carry his share of the load, unlike here where we insist they are children.

How about 14 years old swept up because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time....and held for 5 years or more with no evidence that they were engaged in terrorists activities?

And torture is still illegal under US law and treaty obligations. A unilateral presidential declaration calling it "enhanced interrogation techniques" doesn't change that.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Torture him until he confesses.