http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/provinces/04-at-least-41-more-corpses-found-swat-qs-07

PESHAWAR: At least 41 bodies, mostly of Taliban militants, have been found 
in Pakistan's Swat valley over the past 24 hours, officials said Tuesday, 
describing them as revenge killings by residents.
The corpses, six of them beheaded, were dumped on the roadside, riverside 
and fields in different areas.
Pakistan's military claims to have cleared Swat of extremists in an 
offensive launched earlier this year after militants extended their grip 
into the northwest valley, terrorising residents with public beheadings and 
other violence.
Officials said a total of 251 people had been found dead in similar 
circumstances since July, and believed that the militants were killed by 
residents who feared a Taliban comeback.

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I hope Zawahiri gets to read some of these reports before he dies.

"Larry Hammick"  wrote ...

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> PESHAWAR: At least 41 bodies, mostly of Taliban militants, have been found
> in Pakistan's Swat valley over the past 24 hours, officials said Tuesday,
> describing them as revenge killings by residents.

"Mostly of Taliban militants" - So what were the others, civilians ? Hard to
see how you can call such murder "good news".

> "Mostly of Taliban militants" - So what were the others, civilians ? Hard 
> to
> see how you can call such murder "good news".

I hear from Pakistan that the locals are killing off the former 
collaborators with the Taliban, and those who had condemned their personal 
enemies to the Taliban so that the Taliban would kill them. The same sort of 
thing happened for years after WWII. Former Nazis and their informers and 
sycophants were turning up dead in the street all over Europe.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\09\02\story_2-9-2009_pg7_6

From Fazlullah's disintegrating network, 105 members have surrendered in one 
day. A batch of 60 surrendered a couple of days ago. That's 165 more 
disappointments for the Egyptian corpse-worshipper Ayman al-Zawahiri. He 
wanted all those people to be "martyrs". But I doubt he wants to be a martyr 
himself, and I have a feeling that Zawahiri will surrender soon. But 
surrender to who? His best chance, obviously, lies with the British. He 
should put on his burqa and drive to Lahore, where there is a British trade 
mission. Zawahiri played a role in the London transit bombings, and 
therefore London will surely claim that Zawahiri should be tried in the UK 
and nowhere else. Once he is in British hands, they will no more hand him 
over to the countries of his other victims, than they would hand over Abu 
Doha or Yassir al-Sirri or any other Arab assassin.

"Larry Hammick"  wrote ...

> > "Mostly of Taliban militants" - So what were the others, civilians ?
Hard
> > to
> > see how you can call such murder "good news".
>
> I hear from Pakistan that the locals are killing off the former
> collaborators with the Taliban, and those who had condemned their personal
> enemies to the Taliban so that the Taliban would kill them. The same sort
of
> thing happened for years after WWII. Former Nazis and their informers and
> sycophants were turning up dead in the street all over Europe.

And this is "good" ?

And don't forget, it's "alleged collaborators", "alleged traitors", without
the evidence to prove it.

I'm quite sure that some people took the opportunity in the aftermath of
WWII to have their own personal enemies killed off by alleging they'd done
the very same. It wouldn't surprise me to see the same happening in
Afghanistan or anywhere else. Especially when those doing the murdering
perceive they have the protection of people crying, "good for you".

It seems to me that those who cheer on such murder rather than standing by
principles of innocent until proven guilty, fair trials, and due process,
are just as bad as those they profess to be appalled by.