For strategic reasons only. From CBS (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist):
(CBS/AP) A high-ranking Taliban commander in Afghanistan with direct involvement in the capture and captivity of a group of South Koreans has told CBS News, "we might stop killing hostages, because our strategy may be changing."The Afghan government is "under extreme pressure, and they are embarrassed, so we want to keep them in this situation and sustain this crisis for a while," the militant said in a phone interview.
He did not say exactly how the group planned to draw-out the situation, but he did say the killing "might stop," if only temporarily. The commander spoke to CBS News on condition that he not be named.
Mullah Sabir Nasir, the senior Taliban commander in Ghazni province, where the South Koreans were abducted more than two weeks ago, told CBS News that two hostages were killed due to the Afghan government "cheating us" in negotiations for their release.
Nasir, who holds one of about 30 seats on the Taliban's "supreme council" of leaders, said government negotiators had repeatedly gone back on promises to release Taliban prisoners in exchange for the hostages' — 21 of whom are still said to be alive.
He expressed frustration at apparently not being able to negotiate directly with South Korean officials, suggesting the government of Afghan president Hamid Karzai was blocking any such discussion.
"The Afghan government just wants to make us angry, and push us to kill all the hostages at once to bring an end to the crisis," Nasir told CBS News.
No sense of humanitarian concern whatsoever.
We should never stop killing Taliban.
"we might stop killing hostages, because our strategy may be changing."
-- from the statement issued by the Taliban
This remark is practically boilerplate:
"We might stop................, because our strategy might be changing."
Think of the possible uses:
1) by Fatah's Slow Jihadists, clearly differing not in ultimate goal but in timing and tactics, from the Fast Jihadists of Hamas:
"We might stop calling openly for the destruction of Israel, because our strategy might be changing."
2) by the Islamic Republic of Iran:
"We might stop calling openly for the destruction of Israel and the United States, becusae our strategy might be changing."
3) by the government of Sudan:
"We might stop so openly supporting the Janjaweed as they massacre the black Africans in Darfur, because our strategy might be changing."
4) by the government of Pakistan:
"We might stop supporting Muslim terrorists in Delhi and Mumbai, because our strategy might be changing."
5) by the government of Saudi Arabia:
"We might stop funding hate-the-Infidels literature all over the Western world, because our strategy might be changing."
5) by organized Muslim groups in the United States:
"We might applaud "pluralism" and "democracy" and insist on how well we are all fitting in right here, and what perfect embodiments of the American dream -- all those engineers, all those tidy houses and family-values lives -- we turn out to be, more truly American than the Americans, because our strategy might be changing."
"We might...."
because
"our strategy might be changing."
"The Afghan government just wants to make us angry, and push us to kill all the hostages at once to bring an end to the crisis"
Yep, your violence is always someone else's fault.
I wonder what would happen if one of the hostages quoted suras that Islam's defenders always use to give the impression that killing people is not true Islam?
I'm sure the kidnappers would laugh at him or her.
How many more Christian Missionaries are Muslims gonna kill? Notice that CAIR doesn't condemn these acts? It took them four days to respond regarding the безлан Massacre...
Those who are successful in emulating a pedophile and sociopath become pedophiles and sociopaths.
The rate of recidivism for pedophiles is over 90% and sociopaths can't be 'fixed'.
Prison doesn't solve the problem.
From the above:
No sense of humanitarian concern whatsoever.
That is because (believing) Muslims are not human.
Empathy and sympathy are two of the traits that make us human.
If a Muslim believes his own life on this earth is totally meaningless, how much less does he value YOUR life?
"We Might Stop Killing Hostages"
And pigs might fly.
Our humanity is killing us.
Take no prisoners, search and destroy, round up their relatives in internment camps and treat them overall like they treat us, that is the only way to deal with these guys.
Otherwise get the hell out and leave them to their barbaric ways...
That 'strategy' is bad media attention.
Someone in the west is informing them that the media is not going to be able to keep this quit for to much longer, and when they go public in the MSM it will be a bad PR spin.
So, I guess it is a change of 'strategy'.
Nevertheless, we must not stop killing jihadis.
its getting more difficult each day to repeat the mantra that islam is a rop! the afganistan gov't should also kill their taliban captives for every Korean Christian killed by the Taliban!
Taliban: "We Might Stop Killing Hostages"
This sounds like the Liberal wing of the Taliban. They: "e Might Stop Killing Hostages."
Downright progressives!
I think they're just mad because they think the word "Korean" is somehow just Christians making fun of their word "Koran".
TALIBAN: "We might stop killing hostages."
Pythagoras: "And the cows might come home also."
A lot of things MIGHT happen. "Might" doesn't mean squat in most people's playbook-- nor should it.
Hm... no talk about releasing them, but only on not physically killing them... ... ... hm...
LMAO...and hell MIGHT freeze over tomorrow, too!
LMAO @ this taliban tripe
We should never stop killing Taliban.
Posted by: Foehammer at July 31, 2007 5:23 PM
Somewhere, I hear the voice of my late older brother suggesting that if the Afghan government started executing two Taliban prisoners -- after a summary trial of course -- for each hostage the Taliban executes, the Taliban might release those remaining alive.
Unfortunately, the usual suspects would denounce such a "negotiating" strategy.
Worth reading, a recent article by Michael Burleigh lamenting at how lame the Brits are when it comes to dealing with jihaddists as compared to their European counterparts:
Lawyers sap our will to combat terrorism:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article2148187.ece