Maybe. The Taliban are still strong, and willing to keep pushing for control. Afghans do not like the Taliban, but the past has shown them to be too afraid to mount any kind of real resistance against the black-turbaned threat. I feel for those suffering, but unless and until there is enough popular uprising, we will continue to see the Taliban maintain their stranglehold on Afghanistan.
We can do nothing, not with hearts and minds, or democracy or equal rights. We can only watch and pray.
From Deutsche Presse-Agentur Feb 23 by Farhad Peikar
Video of militant shooting civilians enrages Afghans
Kabul - The increasing violence of the Taliban is failing to win the hearts and minds of many Afghans, as a video of a shooting in a bank has prompted calls for terrorists to be publicly executed.
Surveillance footage shot on Sunday in the Kabul Bank branch in Jalalabad, in the eastern province of Nangarhar, showed a man dressed in police uniform and six accomplices repeatedly shooting unarmed civilians.
In one of the clips broadcast late Tuesday, the bogus policeman is seen shooting two men in civilian clothes as they try to leave the bank, and then walking all around the room, firing indiscriminately at customers, staff and unarmed security personnel.
The attack triggered a standoff with police that lasted several hours and left 38 civilians, four security staff and six of the attackers dead. Afghan police arrested the remaining attacker in police uniform.
Tolo, an Afghan broadcaster, aired a report on Tuesday night which included the surveillance footage and an interview with the suspect, in which he said that the killing 'gave me pleasure.'
The attack came amid an increase in Taliban actions against civilians, as war-weary Afghans the length and breadth of the country struggle to see the Islamic justification for the violence.
Oh, there is plenty of Islamic justification for the violence.
Read it all
We can do nothing, not with hearts and minds, or democracy or equal rights. We can only watch and pray.
From Deutsche Presse-Agentur Feb 23 by Farhad Peikar
Video of militant shooting civilians enrages Afghans
Kabul - The increasing violence of the Taliban is failing to win the hearts and minds of many Afghans, as a video of a shooting in a bank has prompted calls for terrorists to be publicly executed.
Surveillance footage shot on Sunday in the Kabul Bank branch in Jalalabad, in the eastern province of Nangarhar, showed a man dressed in police uniform and six accomplices repeatedly shooting unarmed civilians.
In one of the clips broadcast late Tuesday, the bogus policeman is seen shooting two men in civilian clothes as they try to leave the bank, and then walking all around the room, firing indiscriminately at customers, staff and unarmed security personnel.
The attack triggered a standoff with police that lasted several hours and left 38 civilians, four security staff and six of the attackers dead. Afghan police arrested the remaining attacker in police uniform.
Tolo, an Afghan broadcaster, aired a report on Tuesday night which included the surveillance footage and an interview with the suspect, in which he said that the killing 'gave me pleasure.'
The attack came amid an increase in Taliban actions against civilians, as war-weary Afghans the length and breadth of the country struggle to see the Islamic justification for the violence.
Oh, there is plenty of Islamic justification for the violence.
Read it all
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