Taliban 'welcomed killer with garlands of flowers'
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The Afghan police officer who shot dead five British soldiers in Helmand on Tuesday approached the Taliban two months ago to offer his services and sought refuge with the insurgents after carrying out the killings, Afghan security sources said yesterday.
One report claimed that Taliban militants welcomed the renegade officer, named only as Gulbuddin, with flowers after he escaped from pursuing British and Afghan troops in the town of Nad-e-Ali. A tribal leader said the officer had been smuggled out of the area.
According to the same sources, Gulbuddin had become dissatisfied after falling out with his commander Mohammed Wali, with whom he once had a close friendship. He felt slighted and asked to serve under another senior officer, named Manam.
However, Gulbuddin is said to have remained embittered and may have made contact with insurgents while on leave to see his father, Abdul Khaliq, at a village called Shira near Nad-e-Ali.
Gulbuddin's family came from Musa Qala, a town in Helmand which had several times changed hands between British forces and the Taliban. When he joined the Afghan police three years ago, some of the paperwork he was carrying was said to have been issued by the Taliban when they controlled the town. However, Afghan sources say there is no evidence that he had joined the insurgents at that time.
Gulbuddin, a member of the Alozai Pashtun tribe, subsequently spent about a year at a police academy in Kandahar and was afterwards posted to the Nad-e-Ali area, where the police force is dominated by the Noorzai tribe. Commander Wali is said to have protected him during a tribal dispute and the pair subsequently nurtured a friendship.
A senior police officer in Helmand's provincial capital, Lashkar Gar, said yesterday that British military police had removed a file on Gulbuddin and a number of other officers. A British military spokesman said details of the case could not be discussed while enquiries continued.
Meanwhile, hundreds of Afghans protested in Lashkar Gar, the base for Britain's forces in the country, against what they claimed was the killing of 11 civilian farm workers by foreign troops. A spokesman for Nato denied the charge, saying missiles were fired at a group it believed to be planting a roadside bomb in the town of Babaji.
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Is this the same story you pulled earlier?
I supose you can't be naming everybody that get's killed in afghanistan, seen as the locals are subhuman anyway.
This paper supports the war but not the innocent dead killed by their side , funny that.
Before the war there were not so many civilian deaths.
Before the war there were no poppies.
Before the war the million people that are now addicted to heroin, were not addicts. Women and children are now addicted to the crap.
Before the war the poverty rates were not 53%.
Before the war the unemployment rate was only 8% and is now over 40%.
Before the war the civilians didn't have to live with Radiation from the Bunker Busters or the DU contamination.
Before the war they didn't have over 56,000 injured from bombs bullets etc.
Before the war they didn't have over 9,000 deaths from bombs bullets etc.
Before the war there were more kids going to school.
Before the war there were not as many refugees.
Seems to me the Taliban those awful people they keep telling us about did a better job then the US and NATO.
The Taliban just want the US and Nato out of their country. I don't think The Afghans want them there either. Lets face it they haven't given them freedom or democracy or anything else. Elections are fraud nothing more, just to keep the ex oil guy and probable drug lord in power.
They are sick and starving thanks to the invasion. They have been radiated. They have been murdered.
Now the Heroin has gone to Iran Iraq, Russia, Europe and North America. Considering Afghanistan now supply's over 90% of it to the world at large.
So because of the US and Nato millions around the world are now Heroin Addicts just to add insult to injury.
Their leaders are Druglords and warlords. Corruption is ramped. Most of the money given to them for the people never gets to the people. The contractors are thieves.
Kid either don't have a school or are afraid to go to school for fear of being hurt or killed.
Life is just tickety boo for people there.
If the US and Nato help us any more they will kill us all.
The war was based on lies, just the same as the war in Iraq. All lies. Bin Ladin was never connected to 9/11 nor was anyone else from Afghanistan.
Innocent people were thrown in prison and tortured. Many are still there.
Soldiers die and innocent civilians die. For what Heroin trade which is run by the CIA which is worth billions and of course the pipeline.
Yup good job, they should be so ashamed of themselves.
How can Governments be so sick. How can they lie to their citizens and sleep at night is beyond me?
"the news from Afghanistan of three more British deaths is profoundly saddening and worrying. I recall President Bush (the idiot who can't even pronounce the word 'nuclear' properly) declaring, after what the Americans call "9/11," that he/they/we were 'gonna smoke him [Osama bin Laden] out.' I supported the intention of doing that but bin Laden hasn't been found, let alone been 'smoked out,' after nearly seven years. It appears to me that the time has come for us to draw a line under a disaster and to tell Mr Bush that one hundred British lives lost is enough. The British Empire (which I still hanker for) failed to tame the Afghans, the Soviet Empire admitted defeat at their hands and still we think that we can succeed where others failed and fell. If I thought that there was still a possibility of 'smoking out' Mr bin Laden, I would support as stoutly as anyone the continuing sacrifices of ourselves and the Americans. But I can't help thinking that 'special forces' might have more success than our armies and that the latter should be withdrawn forthwith."
Now we have 230 British dead and unnumbered wounded and what has been achieved since?
Bring our boys home now. President Obama should order likewise for the American people.
Seems they forgot to tell us that and I bet they knew.
http://wp.me/p4271-1sE
Seems they are not telling anyone in any country how many wounded soldiers there are. Not sure why they are keeping it such a big secret we all know there must be thousands of them.