Via Michael Yon.
More peace and love from the enemy. Where’s the Left?
Over the past several days there have been news stories here in Afghanistan about the Taliban strangling an 8-year-old boy. The reports say that his father refused to turn over a police vehicle to the enemy, and so they murdered his son. Late last night, a courageous Afghan journalist named Mustafa Kazemi emailed an image of the boy that Mustafa said had been murdered. Afghans are enraged. They hate this behavior as much as we do. The boy appears to have had his eyes gouged out before being strangled to death.
And so last night I walked to the Headquarters of 4-4CAV here in Zhari District, the most active district in Afghanistan at this time. I asked what was going on tonight. A noncommissioned officer filled me in on the day’s events. We had been in a minor ambush resulting in a slight injury and a damaged MRAP, so I knew about that one. But then he explained about a boy whom he said the Taliban forced to step on an IED just down the road from here. Apparently, according to Afghans, the Taliban may have been testing a new bomb made from a soda bottle. The boy’s name is Jalil, and our people estimate that Jalil is 6 to 8-years-old. Jalil was picking grapes with his brother when the Taliban, according to reporting, told the boy to step on the bomb. It blew off his right leg below the knee, leaving hamburger on the stump, and fractured his femur. Afghans brought Jalil to the nearby American base called COP Kolk, where 4-4CAV Soldiers treated him. A helicopter took Jalil and his father to Kandahar Airfield for advanced treatment.
I asked the Taliban spokesman for his take on this, and he emailed back that “It is enemy propaganda.” The evidence is against him.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/07/26/afghan-boy-reportedly-forced-by-taliban-to-step-on-bomb/
Photos here:
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/images/pdf/25jul11-c-trp-4-4cav-childied-vic.pdf
More:
C TROOP, 4-4 CAV 3d BDE, 10th MOUNTAIN DIVISION 25JUL11
Jalil was in a field picking grapes with his brother Mohammad Mukhtar when a Taliban insurgent asked him to step on an object. The child unknowingly stepped on an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) and caused it to detonate. The child was taken to Combat Outpost (COP) Kolk to receive treatment. Jalil had an amputation of the right leg below the knee and a femur fracture. A tourniquet was placed on his right calf and his lower right leg was dressed with an occlusive pressure bandage. The child was medically evacuated by air to Kandahar Airfield (KAF) with his father as the escort. International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) and Afghan National Army (ANA) Soldiers spoke with four male relatives who came with the child and his father to the COP. They explained the circumstances surrounding the incident and stated that they believe the Taliban were testing a prototype IED. All four individuals were outraged by the heinous acts committed by the Taliban and would like to speak out against the Taliban, their brutal tactics, and their disregard for the welfare of other Afghans.
The anti-war Left pisses and moans over what they perceive as torture, but not one fucking word about the daily atrocities on the part of Islamofascists.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Related posts:
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/obama-to-announce-drawdown-of-troops-from-afghanistan/
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/taliban-uses-human-shields-in-pakistan/
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/even-the-afghans-dont-like-obamas-weak-roe/
Sick fucks