Omar to Taliban: Stop beheadings

04 February, 2008

Omar to Taliban: Stop beheadings

By Janullah Hashimzada & Akram Noorzai - Feb 3, 2008 - 18:07

PESHAWAR/LASHKARGAH (PAN): Elusive Taliban chief Mullah Muhammad Omar has ordered fighters of the rebel movement to stop beheading those found guilty of spying for Afghan and foreign forces.

A well-placed source confided to Pajhwok Afghan News on Sunday the Taliban supremo had instructed the insurgents, who beheaded more than 100 people on spying charges over the last 11 months, to execute spies by shooting.

Familiar with the orders against decapitations, a member of the Taliban military council told this news agency over the telephone from an undisclosed location that henceforth convicted spies would be killed by firing.

[...]

A Pakistan-based Afghan religious scholar characterised decapitations as a sinister conspiracy to denigrate Muslims. Maulvi Ghulam Hazrat remarked: Beheadings, carried out either by Taliban or anyone else, are a contemptible act that must be denounced. Shariah decrees specific punishments for criminals.

Mullah Abdul Khaliq, a militant commander in the restive Uruzgan province, insisted they had slaughtered none in recent months. Taliban no longer slaughter spies and policemen our elders have ordered a stop to decapitations.

link to news story here

Posted by fightglobalists 23:18 | General , Afghanistan | Comment(0) | Permalink

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