KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Jan. 26, 2008
American Woman Kidnapped In Afghanistan
Aid Worker And Driver Taken At Gunpoint In Kandahar
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The two were stopped by gunmen inside the city of Kandahar around 8 a.m. while the woman was being driven to work, said Gov. Asadullah Khalid. He blamed the kidnappings on the "enemy of Islam and the enemy of Afghanistan."
Several Westerners - including two German construction workers and two Italian journalists - have been kidnapped in Afghanistan in the last year, but this was the first kidnapping of an American in recent memory.
Traveling around Kandahar city has turned increasingly dangerous in the last year, as the Taliban insurgency has spread throughout southern Afghanistan. Western civilians who operate there often travel with armed guards and with extreme caution. The area is rife with Taliban militants and also with criminals linked to the country's booming opium poppy trade.
A Taliban spokesman said he had no immediate information that the Islamic militia was behind the kidnappings.
Khalid said the 49-year-old American was wearing a burqa when she was taken. She worked for the aid agency Asian Rural Life Development Foundation, he said.
U.S. Embassy officials were looking into the report, an embassy official said on condition he not be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter.
Khalid said the gunmen had not contacted the government or the woman's aid organization. He said police and intelligence officials were working to find her. He said the woman has been in Afghanistan for several years.
In a likely plea to the woman's captors, Khalid noted that the American respected Afghan traditions by wearing the burqa and speaking the local languages. She did not travel with armed guards, he said.
Projects run by the Asian Rural Life Development Foundation are located around the city of Kandahar and include food for work, irrigation rehabilitation, health care and restoration projects, according to the group's Web site.
Associated Press writer Jason Straziuso contributed to this report from Kabul.
By Noor Khan
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See all 76 CommentsIn a likely plea to the woman''s captors, Khalid noted that the American respected Afghan traditions by wearing the burqa and speaking the local languages. She did not travel with armed guards, he said.
We all hope for her safe return.
If she was kidnapped by thugs she''s probably going to be raped and killed.
If she was kidnapped by the Taliban she''ll probably be used as a pawn for some concessions.
If she was kidnapped by thugs she''''s probably going to be raped and killed.
If she was kidnapped by the Taliban she''''ll probably be used as a pawn for some concessions.
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Posted by turkeyshoot5 at 11:37 AM : Jan 26, 2008
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"They"? Would you be talking about Al Queda... the group Bush surrendered the safe haven to in Pakistan? Sieg Heil Bush!!
WHY DIDN''T BUSH PLANT WDMs IN IRAQ TO VINDICATE HIMSELF ?
That would seem to be the obvious next step.
Did I just hear the far left (Soros) house of cards fall ?
AMEN vet1971.
But we are dealing with animals that need extermination. This vermin has NO social responsibility, they are a product of eblis, not Allah.
We should all hope for her safe return.
Yeah speakinup, you just solved it all, what a brilliant deduction. The neocons should give you a f*ckimg medal. Well, at least you admit Bush is a criminal and faking evidence is not beneath him.
Related:
"Karzai blames Britain for return of Taliban"
"Afghan President Hamid Karzai [Mayor of Kabul] has accused British troops of making the security situation worse in parts of southern Afghanistan, saying the area "suffered" after their arrival."
www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/01/25/karzai-britain.html
Related:
"Situation deteriorating in Afghanistan"
"KARZ, AFGHANISTAN - When journalists wanted to find optimism in the wreckage of Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban in 2001, correspondents bumped along the dirt roads south of Kandahar city to a cluster of mud huts known as Karz."
"Many people celebrated the Taliban''s retreat, but the joy was especially intense in the hometown of the country''s new leader, Hamid Karzai. His tribesmen gathered around the cameras and listed their hopes for the new government: a school, paved roads, maybe even a soccer team."
"That optimism has vanished in Karz. The village where the President spent his childhood is now crowded with the makeshift tents of people running away from recent battles, and the local view of the coming year fits with the bleak consensus that grew stronger in the first weeks of 2008: The situation is getting worse."
www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=WORLD&ID=565233454658027554
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Out of curiosity, what did the Jews do that enraged Hitler? Did they kidnap good Austrians?
posted by usmcvn
Actually, most historians don''t believe Hitler was g a y, though they suspect other s e x ual perversions. But many in the Nazi party were homosexuals despite the party''s policy of g a y oppression. Reminds you of a certain party in the US, huh?
It guess it goes with the liberal mind:
- make claims of mass homosexuality. Yeah - he''s to be taken seriously.
- or that they watch cartoons. It makes me wonder if this loser (and believe me - jwitman is a loser! I know! after a year of exchanging posts) watches cartoons.
- or aliken them to a Nazis. For claiming to be a former USMC member - you''d think they were just a little more mature and intelligent, but I suppose even they have their bad apples. Must have down graded their standards.
Yes, this is the pathetic far left folks. Be proud if you are one of the few, the proud, the mentally challenged.
If you aren''t, just watch their rants come back trying to explain how they aren''t sick little puppies for stating what they did, because their their comments are based on ''facts''.
Or, that I do the same! HAH! When I make a statement about them, it is based on fact - like the one above.
You know what witless - you are a lying piece of sh|t.
So how many times did you see Hitler in church ?
You are so demented as to not know what it is to be an american. IF yo are US Citizen, you seem to work awefully hard to do whatever you can to discredit a President that puts up with schist like you.
So if Bush lied to get us into Iraq sh|t for brains, WHY DIDN''T BUSH PLANT WDMs IN IRAQ TO VINDICATE HIMSELF ?
Did I just hear your house of cards collapse ?
Helloooooooo - what do the terrorists have to say about this today, witless ?
Yes Hitler was a right wing Christian --- These are his words...
-- Adolph Hitler 12 April 1922 (Norman H. Baynes, ed. The Speeches of Adolf Hitler)
"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God''s truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people."
witless, do you have alzheimer''s ? You JUST posted that Republicans must be watching cartoons !!!!
WHAT BASIS OF FACT DO YOU HAVE FOR THAT ??????
You just make bullsh|t remarks because you are frustrated. Pathetic little, far left, wannbe significant, lonely old man.
Parallels there are between fascist/Nazi and Republican ideology:
*Extreme nationalism
*War as a tool for foreign policy
*"You are either for us or against us" mentality
*Hatred of the press, unions and college professors
*Spying on it''s own citizens
*Use of torture
*Secret and illegal prisons
*Favors corporations over the rights of the individual
*Hatred of minorities
*Hatred of welfare of any kind
*Demonizing g a y s despite many in their own ranks
*Calling traitors anyone against government policies
*Heavy use of buzzword terms like "defeatism"
*Persecution complex (Bush and Republicans, like Hitler, thinks everyone is against them personally)
WHAT BASIS OF FACT DO YOU HAVE FOR THAT ??????===
What''s wrong with watching cartoons? There''s a huge market for adult-oriented cartoon audiences (e.g., the Simpsons, Adult Swim on Cartoon Network). Both sides have cartoon watchers.
Also, no one said "mass" numbers of homosexuals in the Repub party. Repubs have no more and no less number of g a y people than Dems do. The difference is, we Dems aren''t hypocrites trying and denying them equal rights.
You are basing your decision of Hitler being a right wing Christian on, "BECAUSE HE SAID SO HIMSELF" !
Clue - TRUE CHRISTIANS DON''T DISLIKE JEWS !
So, now we all know witless believes everything Hitler said.
See what normal people have to put up with on this web site.
Does anyone wonder, like I do, if J-Witman watches cartoons, and that''s why he was so quick to make the judgement about Republicans ?
ok - so MAYBE that''s a little off base, but look at this pathetic little man''s responses.
Christian''s persecuted Jews in this country for 200 years... It didn''t start to change untill the 1950''s.... Unfortunatly many more generations have to die off yet for that to go away.
Many in Germany young & old today still see many of his generals & Reichfuhrer''s as good Christians with strong moral & family values ----- Strange as it seems it is very true.
Yes I am basing Hitler being a right wing Christian on what he said. -- Is there any better source ????
Many in Germany young & old today still see many of his generals & Reichfuhrer''''s as good Christians with strong moral & family values ----- Strange as it seems it is very true.
An interesting Hitler quote about the Church:
"The church is certainly necessary for the people. It is a strong conservative element...Through me the Evangelical Church could become the established church, as in England. Undoubtedly, the church would learn to adapt the political goals of National Socialism in the long run, as it had always adapted in the course of history."
As proof - you look at your little bullets - and you''ll see some of them apply to things Hillary done over the last few days.
I won''t waste any more time listening to you deny it, other than to tell you that you that you are barely one step up from the bad apple Marine in Mexico.
And, your friend, usmcvn, seems to think the ''Corps'' is the only place to have served to be patriotic. And, while the USMC is a HONORABLE institution, anyone that HAS to point to that fact in order to be considered honorable, is not!
You have chosen to draw your HONOR from an institution, rather than displaying it yourself.
There is no HONOR in associating the USMC with the sort of sh|t you spew out to the world, Marine!
US ARMY 1st Lt Jan 1974, ROTC.
I read the quote carefully & couldn''t see how you can say anything sbout rejecting the religion,,,but just the opposite,,,, he wanted the evangilical church to be the national church.
usmcvn - you are a disgrace to the Corps. You need to change your pen-name if you want to be ******. The Corps doesn''t need you dragging their good name thru the mud with your feeble attempts to irritate good folks.
All you are doing is making an Honorable institution look bad by association. If I were a Marine, I''d be looking to tell you that you have forgotten the meaning of Semper Fi.
BTW, you spell the word "speech". No need to make USMCVNs stupid too.
witless - think of the phrase, "wolf in sheep''s clothing" - does that straighten yor little brain f@rt out for you ?
Was or Wasn''t Hitler a wolf in sheeps clothing ? Did you or DIDN''T yo believe him simply because he said it. DOES OR DOESN''T THAT MAKE YOU A FOOL!!!!
USMCVN, yeah I know about the Junior ROTC system - I was in both, and yes I was an officer in both. As well as an officer in the US Army.
Your disrespect for other services is duly noted. I could not care less about your personal problem. See the Chaplin.
"speakinup,,,, You should really think about stopping your attacks on America''s veterans --- You are showing the world the meaning of the "Ugly American"
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I find this really hypocritical, witless. I''m the ''ugly american'' for being critical of a Marine defaming the USMC, and pointing out your sick attitude, but you are just ''joking'' when you say Republican''s are all watching cartoons instead of crossing your path on this web site.
Perhaps if you had something to say that was of a DEBATE nature, and for pure insult purposes, folks would engage you.
Opinions are like azz-holes, everyone''s got one. Facts are what should drive our opinions not the other way around.
If I were "pissed off", I''d be name calling and cussing without basis of fact to back it up Marine.
witless - (and this name is given "ips resps loquitor" which roughly translates to "the thing speaks for itself" in law) I have mentioned time and again that I was a volunteer in the US Army during the Vietnam Era, that didn''t server in Vietnam.
And I believe USMCVN has been dishonorable enough to say something about marching around in circles when I mentioned ROTC. Fact is, you''ll never know what it is about USMCVN, and I don''t care to explain it to someone like you. Suffice it to say, I was willing to put my life in jeopardy, during a time that not many were.
If that''s not honorable to you or witless, well, it is questionable that you truly represent what you think you do.
Cogitate on your motives for a while, gents. You want a child like pissing match, or do you want to make a difference in this world.
witless - you strike me as the kind of person that would flip the chess board over when it became apparent you were going to lose, rather than resign.
You''ve been examined, and found to be wanting.
"You see, it''s been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn''t we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?"
So it seems to me that links to Hitler and Christianity are somewhat weak. Christianity was Hitler''s religion and he used it for his purposes only because that happened to be the religion he was born into and the religion Germany adhered to. If he was born into Islam or Hinduism, he may not have acted any differently than he did as a "christian". For instance, Manson is a maniac too, regardless of his religion. It''s almost an immaterial point.
Feel free to refute any of my comparisons.
===We know you like to lie. Nothing you say has any value on this site.===
Why? Because it doesn''t agree with your politics? Therefore, it''s all lies? And evidence of these "lies"? How very arrogant of you.
===As proof - you look at your little bullets - and you''''ll see some of them apply to things Hillary done over the last few days.===
No argument there about Hillary.
Me, Honorable discharge, family man, law-abiding citizen and you compare me to a murderer of a pregnant woman because, what? You don''t like my political views? From one USMC (ret) to one USA (ret), go f*ck yourself.
===And, your friend, usmcvn, seems to think the ''''Corps'''' is the only place to have served to be patriotic.===
Did I ever say that? If I bring up my service in an argument, it''s for the chickenhawks who question my patriotism and courage.
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