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Cueball
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posted 26 February 2006 04:46 PM      Profile for Cueball   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Death penalty for Afghan spy head

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Asadullah Sarwari had denied the charge and said he would appeal against the verdict passed in a Kabul court.

Sarwari, 64, headed the intelligence department set up under the communist government in 1978. He was arrested 13 years ago but not tried until 2005.



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Webgear
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posted 26 February 2006 05:27 PM      Profile for Webgear     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Afghan militants lead Kabul prison riot

There is a prison riot happening on the outskirts of Kabul at the Policharki Prison. It is a major government prison I wonder if Asadullah Sarwari is being held there and that is the reason for the situation at the prison.


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unionist
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posted 26 February 2006 06:07 PM      Profile for unionist     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The BBC has lots more info. They say it started with a change in prison "uniform" policy. There are also reports of 7 deaths so far, but the authorities deny it.

All the foreigners should just get out, right now, yesterday. Afghanistan's people have suffered enough from their liberators over the centuries. They are not animals -- they can look after themselves.

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Heavy Sharper
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posted 26 February 2006 07:44 PM      Profile for Heavy Sharper        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
A traitor? Brezhnev's puppets did a far better job running that country than any Islamist goons have ever done, and I despise Brezhnev.
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Cueball
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posted 26 February 2006 09:10 PM      Profile for Cueball   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
But wait! Doesn't this story seem a little strange, aside from all that?

Here is a guy who spent years in a Taliban jail. A guy who is a former member of the communist regieme. We know the Taliban were extremely ruthless, yet for some reason this former high ranking member of the communist state security apparatus avoided execution this long?

I am not saying anything, because I know nothing, yet it seems strangely incongruous.


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Webgear
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posted 26 February 2006 09:40 PM      Profile for Webgear     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Maybe he had strong family and tribal connections which are now lost, maybe he ran out of money for bribes, or maybe he just ran out of useful information to keep himself alive.

He could just be the first of many former and current warlords and war criminals to be sentence to death for their crimes against the Afghan people.

Yes, it does seem strange he stayed alive for all these years in prison, especially an Afghan prison.


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Fidel
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posted 26 February 2006 10:01 PM      Profile for Fidel     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I think that governance, law and order were never going concerns for the Taliban or mujihaden. I'd bet they were too busy staging public executions of women to have noticed Sarwari. He was probably caught behind the lines at a time when surviving PDPA members either fled to the other stans or northward to take up arms with the Northern Alliance. The average Taliban mercenary likeley isn't able to read a prisoner's list let alone write to their mothers and sisters in the hills, Saudi Arabia or Pakistan.
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