May 31st, 2012
10:06 AM ET
Pakistani Taliban vows to kill doctor who helped track bin Laden
By Reza Sayah and Nasir Habib in Islamabad
The Pakistani Taliban vowed on Thursday to kill Shakeel Afridi, the jailed Pakistani doctor accused of helping the CIA in the search for Osama bin Laden, a spokesman for the militant group told CNN.
"We will cut him into pieces when we find him," Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told CNN by phone. "He spied for the U.S. to hunt down our hero Osama bin Laden."
Pakistani officials say Afridi is being held in a prison in the city of Peshawar in northwest Pakistan.
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hell its to late now... GOT EM'
No doubt Osama deserved what he got for killing some three thousands innocents in 2001 but what about America which during last one decade have killed hundred thousands in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan since then despite the fact that none of the attackers of 9/11 belonged to these three nations. Sorry to say that none in the comments have dared to criticize this state sponsored terrorism world over.
America needs to pay Pakistan blood money for this man and his family. If we cannot guarantee safety for people who help out our intelligence agencies than why would someone help us? Pakistan needs to remember our aid to them is for them to turn an eye to our operations inside their country. We forgave billions of debt Pakistan once owed us, and continue to foot their bills. This doctor, did more for America than he had to do.
The Pakistani Taliban would indeed "cut into pieces" the doctor who helped bring some justice to the murderous fiend ,Osama bin Laden. That is because the Pakistani Taliban hve the some mindset as the Afghanistan Taliban. Which is an evil and irratonal mindset. Furthermore ,President Obama should be working with Pakistan to have this doctor released from prison, Then he withhis family should be allowed to come here in America to live their lifes in peace as a reward for his heroic service. If Obama isn't doing all he can to help this doctor is he then trying to show the United States to be an ungreatful nation ? . Or is he trying to show that it's true that they say, which is that "No good deed will go unpunished." This that the message that Obama is trying to send?.
This guy is dead man walking. Judging how well the Pakistani army/police protect other controversial figures within their country I give him two weeks tops.
He got paid enough by the CIA he could hire his own security. I am sure he planned his future out when he endeavored on this mission.
Think they'll let his paid security in jail with him?
That or internally.
This doctor should be sent to the us for protection. We should quit messing around in Afghanistan and wipe these guys out.
We've been fighting them for 10 years....WW2 took less. We've been wiped out financially while at it. Says a lot doesn't it. We will never learn. We need a whole new leadership then the faces you see in Wash dc or the guvs.
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People like you are our amusement. We laugh at your ignorance daily
It's nice that your trailer park manager is letting you play with his computer again today.
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Wait, why are they wanting to kill this guy? Bin Laden's not dead is he (Ha). We haven't seen the pictures of his dead body so the Taliban must be crazy too huh? (Again, Ha).
Threat from Pakistanis about cutting the doctor into pieces should not be ignored. Pakistan needs to be pressurized to find and punish this Ehsanullah guy. Give them a time table to deal with this Ehsanullah. If they do not produce results in a timely manner, both drones strikes and aid reduction against Pakistan would work like a charm. Pakistan needs to prove that they are worth the dollars they receive.
BLAME HILLARY.
You have to admire how tough and smart she is. She decided to deal with Pakistani terrorism head on while Bush's preference was to look the other way. Hillary 2016!!
She could not keep the d$ck in Bill's pants how can she deal with Pakistan? Go figure.
Do you realize the psychological effect of having a smart and tough woman deal with Pakistan? These primitive Islamic radical Muslims can not imagine anything worse than a smart and tough woman bossing them around - it's a nightmare for these primates.
Hillary...Woman? She just moved in with one. Where have you been?
It's criminal that Obama and his ilk have let this man flap in the wind.
If Obama brought this doctor and his family over, Pakistanis would cut his extended family into pieces. We are not dealing with sane people – Pakistanis are radical fundamentalist Muslims. They would cut anyone into pieces in the name of Allah just for the heck of it.
While you are correct that Obama's hands were tied, the Pakistanis should not have found out how we got him. The blame for that falls on the Obama administration. We now know way too much about how our intelligence agencies do their business.
"We will cut him into pieces when we find him," Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told CNN by phone. " He spied for the U.S. to hunt down our hero Osama bin Laden." Why do we give aid to these Pakistanis?
@Maria and Gloria A. You ladies hit the nail right on the head. If we don't do a controlled implosion of India then I am afraid, extremism will continue to fester in that region and continue to become a threat for the western nations. We have been fighting a war for the past ten years with no end. Our soldiers have shed blood to no end. Their families are suffering. Has even one Indian soldier sacrificed his life in helping the Americans, NATO and western countries in fighting this war? The answer is a resolute NO. Folks, just think about it, 1.2 million Indian Army soldiers are sitting in trenches doing what???? Sure the heck beats me. Americans are now questioning the US Congress as to what they are doing to correct this unsustainable relationship with India. The India caucus is being monitored by citizen groups. If they don't respond to the needs of the American people political contributions to them will be severely impacted.
It appears that some of the comments posted (which I agree with) point to the fact that the only way to peace in Afghanistan is dismantling the terrorist network and financing emanating from India, cutting India it up into smaller nations along the lines of communist USSR and let smaller and more gentle and economically dynamic states emerge, stopping the genocide in Kashmir of muslim children/women, subjugation of minorities, prosecution of Christians and Muslims. Furthermore the ridiculously large and ineffective Indian army needs to be dismantled and put to use in assisting the poverty stricken masses and not sitting in trenches hiding from Talibans.
@Maria. Agreed. The thesis is that smaller independent states will generate tremendous economic demand for western nations, be democratically more efficient and easy to manage, Christian friendly, religion tolerant, a great source of demand for military equipment from the west, culturally homogenous and will unleash opportunities for the people that will eradicate poverty. Moreover, the currently subjugated and enslaved minorities will have a place they can call home, have their skin in the game and work harder and with a passion to keep that neighborhood clean from extremists.
Of course, we can carve out a hindu nation along the a portion of India's western coast where they can continue to practice their medieval culture and hopefully come into the folds of the modern world within the next century.
The bottom line is that the only way to have peace in Afghanistan and lessen regional tension is split India into pieces. It has become too big to govern or create any value for western countries or even for its own population. We have invested a lot of resources in India over the past two decades and given a lot of aid to prop it up. There has been no investment on this return. Instead India has squandered all the resources in building nuclear weapons while poverty remains rampant in the country. We need to revisit our relationship with India. American taxpayers will not tolerate this anymore. We need to take care of our own populace going forward. We cannot be exporting jobs to India or giving it financial or technical handouts.
you don't know anything about india shut the f....up
DEMISE OF INDIA: The aftermath of Afghanistan invasion
The American invasion of Afghanistan brought to the forefront the irrelevance of India as a nation. With a population of over 1.2 billion people there was no value that this nation could bring to the table. Their soldiers (ragtag) 1.2million continue hiding in the trenches scared from Talibans. A few teenage Talibans invaded the country and held it hostage for days on end showing how useless India is. It was embarrasing for the world to observe this humiliation of a nation that was being touted as a regional power. The Talibans brought them down in a few days with some BB guns. It is all over for India. Its demise is in process and should be completed with Afghanistan withdrawal
before you kill him i would look at the pakistain isi THAT's who he was working for from the intelligence I've received. terrorists killing terrorists go figure who would have thought this day would come. you may want to investigate the muslimbrotherhood they have ties to the CIA and many informents and agents.
The Taliban's hero is Bin Laden – as they say. What a bunch of morons!!!
The Taliban radical fundamentalist crazies will not change and neither will the radical political and fundamentalist crazies in America that say such stupid and hateful things about President Obama.
Kill the doctor... sacrafice 100 mosques to predator missiles – or perhaps 1000.
I was in Afghanistan for a year and a half. Once we realise that we will never change the Afghans or our 'allies' in Pakistan, then maybe we will make some REAL progress one way or the other. The Afghan people really are thousands of years behind us, and will always take pride in killing off ANYONE who doesn't believe the way they do. The men treat livestock and young boys better than their wives. No wonder the women keep offing themselves.
Why are we still sending aid to Pakistan???
Bizarre child-burying Hindu ceremony in India
CNN:
Indian police have charged 80 people for burying children alive in an ancient Hindu ceremony known as "the festival of pits."
The ceremony, in which children - some less than a year old - are buried alive briefly and then dug up, happened on Monday in southern Tamil Nadu state, The Asian Age reported on Thursday.
Every two years, parents who have vowed to bury their first-born if they are blessed with a child, take part in the Kuzhimattru Thiru Vizha ceremony.
The children are drugged to make them unconscious and placed in shallow "graves" in temple courtyards.
The pits are covered with leaves and dirt and the children are pulled out after Hindu priests chant a brief prayer - lasting up to a minute.
In the news:
Children buried alive in Hindu ritual
are on something idiot.......
Obumbles will desert this guy without a doubt.
I served in Iraq and Afghanistan. I used to be all up for tolerance and being fair, but i've seen enough of the world to know that is for fools. Those who deserve to die should just die. Everyone who is associated with the Taliban deserves to die. Everyone who is a radical Muslim deserves to die. Everyone who gets in the way defending these people need to die. Yes....the earth needs a good cleansing of a few million people at least. No offense to the "average" Muslim in a more civilized society, but the average Muslim over there is filth. My opinions of them have changed from they aren't all that way to forget all of them. They are all worthless trash.
I wont say radical Muslim but anyone who is radical, no matter what religion. I am from that part of the world and lived among these people for 31 years they will never change. We in America think people can change if they get opportunity but they will not change.
you are right for sure. I know you suffer through your experiences brother, not much different than my own, but keep HIM in focus and he will make all things right as He has for me. Thank you for your service to your combat buddys' and this great nation. I love you because you and those who have served with you represent the best America has to offer and in the end it really is worth it. I hope you take that with you through the rest of your life's travels.
New, More Dangerous Hindu Extremist Groups Emerge in India
Christians concerned as rightwing factions splinter to form militant outfits.
PUNE, India, October 29 (CDN) — After more than a decade of severe persecution, India’s Christian minority is growing increasingly concerned over the mushrooming of newer and deadlier Hindu extremist groups.
Gone are the days when Christians had to watch out only for the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council) and its youth wing, Bajrang Dal, which are closely linked with the most influential Hindu extremist umbrella organization, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). With voter support faltering for the RSS’s political wing, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), moderate and extremist sections within the Hindu nationalist movement are blaming each other, and militant splinter groups have emerged.
Claiming to be breakaway factions of the RSS, new groups with even more extreme ideology are surfacing. The Abhinav Bharat (Pride of India), the Rashtriya Jagran Manch (National Revival Forum), the Sri Ram Sene (Army of god Rama), the Hindu Dharam Sena (Army for Hindu Religion) and the Sanatan Sanstha (Eternal Organization) have launched numerous violent attacks on Christian and Muslim minorities.
And how foolish it is of people that are griping of why we are still in Afghanistan fighting the Afghan Taliban.
They claim the Taliban had nothing to do with 9/11. That may very well have been the case for the majority of the low level Taliban fighters that were so cut off from the outside world and only fed what the Taliban leadership wanted them to hear. But I remember the Taliban leadership post 9/11 refusing to give Bin Laden up...why exactly? They fully supported Bin Laden's actions in 9/11 and knew FULL WELL what Bin Laden was all about. If you are in anyway affliated with Al Queda you are an enemy of the U.S. Igornace of you leadership's "mantra" is no excuse and should be treated as such. If people are saying that the the Taliban in Pakistan that are blatantly supporting Al Queda in this article aren't affiliated with the Taliban in Afghanistan there full blown liars.
OBAMA DID IT ,HE HAS THE VIDEO,SCHMUCKS.
OBAMA DID IT!! MORONS.
wow, this whole entire war is nothing but a waste of money now! i do believe we had to defend our nation after 9/11 but we got the job done.. im tired of hearing about innocent people/ our SOLDIERS gettin killed... still trying to figure out why the heck we are still over THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Because thanks to GWB, we got sidetracked in to a war in iraq.
He'll be dead by prayer time on Sunday!!!
They pray on Fridays.
Barry the wonderfool tried to take credit for the SEAL Team's success and revealed too much information, endangering the individual who made the operation possible. Yet it is the pakis, who are our enemies, that deserve to be hammered for being the back stabbing swine they are.
President Obama (no, I didn't vote for him, and won't vote for him... but please respect the office!!!) deserves credit for making the call. Had the mission failed, I'm sure you'd have no problem blaming him... BTW, most of his advisers were against it...
It seems that this fellow should have been relocated, but if he didn't want to be... He like changed his mind. Now we're in the incredible position of having to leverage this guy out of prison (like an agent in a Iron Curtain country during the Cold War; yet the country imprisoning him is a supposed ally!
how can this guy be in a pakistani jail? he should be here, in america, with a metal of honor.
*medal
This man helped us. We should get him and any family that he has, bring them back to the USA, with a new ID. It is the LEAST that we can do.
Can we please please PLEASE send in a SF team to get this guy out? He helped us off one of the worst badguys in recent history, and we are letting him rot in a Pakistan prison? Maybe we need to just take up a collection and let some Blackwater (Xe) operators do it.
"Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told CNN by phone" For some reason, that just seems....odd.
Not so odd... The Pakistani Islamists of Taliban always like to suppress free speech and the freedom of the press. Pakistani is rated one of the worst countries for violence against journalists. However, whenever these Pakistani Islamists want to threaten someone or spread their message of hatred, they have no scruples about using the free media in the free world for free.
Once upon a Kabul dreary, while the americans/nato pondered exit and weary.....
While they nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at their bunker door.
"'Tis some visiter," they muttered, "tapping at our bunker door —
Only this and nothing more."
Quoth the talibans......Nevermore.......
We come in peace and nothing more..only in peace and nothing more...
To begin negotiations and maybe more...to facilitate withdrawal and maybe more
Quoth the talibans, Nevermore".
And thus began the love fest over a cuppa tea
And everyone lived happily after..and much much more
Quoth the talibans and americans in unison...Nevermore."
I had never read a towelhead poem before. Now I think that these savages needn't try poetry.
Good one @krm1007. Ties in well with the bonding going on between talibans and US/NATO !
I wonder whose side Pakistan is on?
You have to ask? It obviously isn't ours.
Bring our troops home now!! This war is a waste of money!
This article wasn't about a war. Try to stay focused Grasshopper.
This guy is not going to live too much. He helped the Americans to killed Bin Bin so his days are numbered in jail. Good luck when you meet the crazy Talibans and I am sure there are a few in jail.
...that's nice to know.
Now when people complain that the Taliban and al Queida are two distinct groups with different agenas, we can just clear that right up.
Are these the same Taliban that we are negotiating with and need to break all connections with Al Qaeda in order to produce a peace deal? I think with certain elements of the Taliban, the love of Al Qaeda remains strong. The United States may back away from the nation building process of Afghanistan (this they can wait out), but the Taliban are naive to believe the U.S. will not continue the offensive though they do not have 100K ground troops. If they continue to support or harbor terrorist groups that attack America, they will be under an endless low level war, one which both the American public and funds can support.
I agree, except now through the Talibans recent history, they appear to be nothing more then the regional Al Qaeda affiliate. No political agenda or desire to make the world better for their kind. Simply out there looking to kill people. Thats all they want.
Mission Accomplished.
These people must first suffer a true, relentless and costly bloodbath involving millions of refugees before their culture will grow to a level that can understand religious insanity.
Yes, these people are Ronald Reagan's "Freedom Fighters"...
The distinction between the Taliban and Terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and Hezbollah used to be wide. They used to be a political party and a "govt." which was actually recognized by some countries. Now they are nothing more then terrorist thugs who thrive off fear and live off of blood.
If you go against a National Hero like Bin Laden in Pakistan, your life would be in grave danger. Pakistanis took utmost pride in having an Islamic hero like bin Laden in their country. This doctor certainly hurt the Pakistani pride.
I dont think the average Pakistani citizens endorse Bin Ladens most imfamous attack (9/11). I seriously doubt that the average Pakistani thought that was a good idea. At least i sure hope not.
Please..
The "average" Pakistani still thinks the Jews were responsible for 9/11, and that all the recordings of Bin Laden were faked.
This is how they justify honoring a mass murderer.
How can the Taliban ever hope to be recognized internationally as a legitimate political organization. It is simply a gang. They are so easy to hate. They hope to create mindless dummies who will kill or hurt anyone who is not a radical muslim male. The only time the Taliban ever speaks up is when its "vowing" to kill someone else. Its pathetic. They truely are the scum of the earth. What a simple existence. Pathetic. They are easily 1 or 2 thousand years behind any civilized human being. The only problem is that they can get their hands on modern tech. Otherwise, they would be nothing more then barbaric cavemen whos only true agenda is to kill people.
It's just that Muslim love coming through again.
Yeah. Smells just like christian love doesn't it? Or insert any religions' love in the sentence.
I hope the CIA was listening in on this phone interview and tracking the origin. Triangulation=Sending in a drone=by by murdering taliban scum.
Wow...the American christians want to put the homosexuals behind electric fences and/or kill them. And the muslim taliban wants to "cut people into pieces."
Gotta love all that "peace, love and understanding" that religion brings into our world.
Yep. The Taliban has an agenda (killing people), the Christians have an agenda (converting people), and JG has an agenda (keeping people stupid).
Now, if we can only figure out a way to get the Taliban numbskulls, to all stand in a great big circle around the good doctor and then open up on him with their AK's.
The evil, cruel, vicious, COWARDLY, murdering Talibum stone age loons are at it again. I can't believe the people in Afghan and Pakistan don't rise up and kill all the Cavemen Talibums. The people sure demonstrate against us when their precious Korans are burned, soldiers urinate on dead Talibums and when bin Laden wa skilled. Have you seen any demonstrations against the stinking cowardly Talibums who recently poisoned 160 young girls because they were attending school? Those cowardly thugs treat goats better than women and yet I see no world Leaders strongly condemning these sorry excuses for human beings and no public demonstrations. Why should we care what happens to the Afghan and Pakistan people when they do NOTHING to warrant any more of our brave soldiers blood and all the $$ going down the drain. I think the entire middle east is one big CESSPOOL. The Pakistan Government throws the Doctor in jail for 33 years for helping us kill that mass murderer and Mother of all Cowards, bin Laden. I wouldn't give that damn government one more penny until that Doctor is out of jail and here in the US. Pakistan is supposed to be an ally of ours. Spare me but we don't need allies like that stinking backwards country.
I couldn't agree more with all stated... Piss on the talibanifuckers
Well put. I think the reason the Taliban are not thrown out of Pakistan and Afghanistan is that the general population in those countries is not much different than the Taliban. The idea that most of these people are "peaceful" is discredited by the fact that the Taliban retain control over religious tenets there.
Towel Heads is what Towel Heads do.