The killings, in a district where U.S. Marines have battled the Taliban for years, were a reminder of how much power the insurgent group still wields in the south — particularly as international forces draw down and hand areas over to Afghan forces.
The
victims were part of a large group that had gathered late Sunday in
Helmand province's Musa Qala district for a celebration involving music
and dancing, said district government chief Neyamatullah Khan. He said the Taliban slaughtered them to show their disapproval of the event.
All
of the bodies were decapitated but it was not clear if they had been
shot first, said provincial government spokesman Daoud Ahmadi.
Information
was only trickling out slowly because the area where the killings
occurred is largely Taliban controlled, Khan said. The Taliban spokesman
for southern Afghanistan could not be reached for comment.
Many
Afghans and international observers have expressed worries that the
Taliban's brutal interpretation of Islamic justice will return as
international forces withdraw. Under the Taliban, who ruled the country
from 1996 to 2001, all music and film was banned as un-Islamic, and
women were barred from leaving their homes without a male family member
as an escort.
Helmand is one
of the areas seeing the largest reduction in U.S. troops, as the force
increase ordered up by President Barack Obama departs. The U.S. started
drawing down forces from a peak of nearly 103,000 last year, and plans
to have decreased to 68,000 troops in country by October. http://news.yahoo.com/17-afghans-beheaded-insurgent-attack-party-105555181.html
Why are even in Afghanistan now if the Taliban is going to replace our troops as we get out? Either we should be all in or all out. We are getting our soldiers killed by Afghan forces and the civilians are getting killed by the Taliban. What the hell kind of policy is that?
I'd rather be all in because I know as soon as we leave, the Taliban and other Muslim extremists are going to overrun the country and we will be in the same position prior to 9/11.
However, I do understand the feelings of those want us to get out completely. But you cannot do things half asssed like Obama is doing..
Another reason why Obama is unfit to be president of the U.S..
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