Taliban to execute US soldier if Aafia not released

[maddezmom]

Source: Pak Tribune

PESHAWAR: The Afghan Taliban on Thursday demanded the release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani scientist who has been convicted by the US court on charges of her alleged attempt to murder US soldiers in Afghanistan, and threatened to execute an American soldier they were holding currently. They claimed Aafia Siddiqui’s family had approached the Taliban network through a Jirga of notables, seeking their assistance to put pressure on the US to provide her justice.

“Being Muslims, it becomes our religious and moral obligation to help the distressed Pakistani woman convicted by the US court on false charges,” said a senior Afghan Taliban commander. The commander, whose militant network is holding the US soldier, Bowe Bergdahl, called our sources from an undisclosed location in Afghanistan and threatened to execute the American trooper if their demand was not met. He claimed AafiaSiddiqui’s family had approached the Taliban network through a Jirga of notables, seeking their assistance to put pressure on the US to provide her justice.




Read more: http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?224245

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Exclusive: Missing U.S. Soldier May Be in Pakistan
Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl Kidnapped by Taliban in Afghanistan
By MATTHEW COLE
July 20, 2009

The U.S. soldier kidnapped by Taliban forces in Afghanistan may have been taken across the border to Pakistan, complicating efforts to obtain his release, according to two people involved in U.S. and Afghan military efforts to locate him, and three Afghan soldiers captured with him.

Family responds to Bowe Bergdahl's nervous plea to come home.The soldier, Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl, 23, of Idaho, is the first serviceman captured since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. According to a person actively involved in the search, a top Afghan insurgent commander has taken credit for capturing the soldier and has now moved the soldier to South Waziristan, Pakistan. U.S. armed forces are not permitted to operate inside Pakistan except under extreme circumstances.

more:http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/pfc-bowe-bergdahl-pakistan/story?id=8127636

[glowing]

1. So we moved into Pakistan without declaring war at all. Isn't that just neat-o

[era veteran]

2. hey! neo cons this is why we don't torture

Of course you and your chickenhawk issue don't serve. This sad affair may have happened anyway, but we will never know, will we?

[Rebubula]

11. Sorry...

...What?

[era veteran]

13. The subject was Execute US soldier

I saw no response to his problems of being Brutally killed, I think his position might be better if his country had followed either the rules of the Geneva Convention or the rules of common decency. I feel we, as a country , let him down.

[Thothmes]

18. The current President did not serve

and it did happen. Your point is?

[era veteran]

19. This President has stopped torture

The torture death of the soldier has not happened. Is this hard to grasp? The previous culture of torture is well known to our enemies.

[Socal31]

22. Wait...

what?

[EFerrari]

3. I seriously doubt this story is true. Aafia's family is preparing an appeal.

ETA: I mean, the story the Taliban is telling.

[timo]

4. ????

what were the "extreme circumstances" we were operating under when the guys got blown up the other day at the girls school??

[MetaTrope]

5. Lucky for the court that Siddiqui allegedly tried to escape interrogation

As it probably would have been much more difficult to get a legal conviction based on accusations of carrying bomb-making instructions and a map of New York landmarks. :eyes:

[Robb]

10. You must have Siddiqui confused with someone else?

Siddiqui was picked up in Afghanistan after she tried to shoot her way past soldiers who asked her a few questions at a checkpoint. She refused to participate in her trial because she said there were Jews on her legal team and probably in the jury.

[EFerrari]

14. I think you have her confused with someone else. She was in custody

when the alleged shooting incident took place, although there is no forensic evidence she ever touched a gun, no prints, not holes in the walls, no casings. The only one shot in the incident, which took place in the room where she was being detained, was herself.

[Solly Mack]

6. Well, damn

[Soylent Brice]

7. K&R

[BennyD]

8. If Dr Aafia Siddiqui is retruned to them, what will be her fate? Hell, they might stone her. n/t

[pjt7]

9. Based on Paki newspapers Dr. Siddiqui

is well liked.

[BennyD]

12. Benazir Bhutto was "well liked" too. n/t

[MNmom]

15. Here's more info on Dr. Siddiqui.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7643669

[boppers]

16. The Taliban are threatening to kill US soldiers? Compared to what, giving them tea?

I missed the part where the Taliban *weren't* killing US soldiers at every opportunity.

[Flaneur]

17. Well, they've had this one for months and apparently haven't killed him.

[proteus_lives]

20. They're cribbing from the Hamas playbook.

[TexasObserver]

21. Recommend. I just don't know what to say about this one.

I can't help but think first and foremost about the kid.