They let one man go because he recited verses from the Qur'an. "Taliban Kill 10 on Medical Aid Mission in Afghanistan," by Rod Nordland and Sharifullah Sahak in the New York Times, August 7 (thanks to Twostellas):
KABUL, Afghanistan -- At least 10 medical personnel, including six Americans, were murdered in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, officials confirmed Saturday. A Taliban spokesman, reached by cellphone, claimed responsibility for the killings. [...]The International Assistance Mission, a group that last month had a fund-raiser in Kabul for a medical expedition to Nuristan Province, said six of the dead were Americans, one was German and one was British. Dirk Frans, the executive director of the I.A.M., said the team was headed by Tom Little, an American opthamologist with four decades experience in Afghanistan and a fluent Dari speaker. Mr. Frans said the team numbered 12, including four Afghans, two of whom were killed.
The victims' bodies were stripped of all belongings, making identification difficult and suggesting robbery as a motive. However, Taliban insurgents are known to be active in the area, and the attackers allowed at least one Afghan to leave the scene unharmed. The survivor, an Afghan driver named Saifullah, told police he was let go because he recited verses from the Koran.
A spokesman for the Taliban, Zabiullah Mujahid, claimed that the medical team were shot because they ignored an order from the insurgents to stop. Afterwards, he said, they found evidence that the group were American spies and were preaching Christianity. He said they had maps showing their bases, and a Bible in Dari. Although I.A.M. is a Christian-supported group, Mr. Frans said, it does not engage in proselytizing....
Afterwards, Mr. Kentoz said local residents told police, a group of red-bearded gunmen took the group prisoner and marched them on foot to a remote area where they shot them to death. It is common in Afghanistan for older men to dye their beards with henna....
In imitation of Muhammad.
There is no healing in Islam, only suffering.
Muslim doctors would have been far more compatible with Taliban ideology: http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2010/02/muslim-death-doctors-islamic-jihad-by.html
In Islamic lands, no good deed goes unpunished. We're damned for coming, accused of occupation (the greatest evil) for staying and we'll be damned if we go (witness Tariq Aziz). We're better off staying away entirely and letting them find their own "peace".
The price for our benign neglect: NONE of them can come here.
I bet sick people who were being helped really appreciate the Taliban killing it off...
"In imitation of Muhammad."
"..and then, while still alive, they were thrown out on the hot desert to die." (video)
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/04/muhammad-and-torture-mahomet-et-la.html
That was an extremely sick episode, but I would bet it was just one of many others that did not get recorded in Hadith...
Ever since the USA and the UN forces have involved themselves in helping people in these islamic hell holes, thye have shot, beheaded , and killed for Allah. How come they haven't learned a thing? It is useless and pointless to help muslims in any way.
Can you find examples of similiar attrocities after we occupied and helped the people of germany, italy, and Japan after WW2? These dems, cons, libs, repubs, left wingers, right wingers,etc, keep pointing to these WW2 examples for helping the muslims, as to the reasons why we are there, I don't get it.
For Allah so loved to torment the world on a whim, that he sent his only prophet to whom booty was lawful, and who had become victorious with terror, so that all who believe might not live in freedom but be poor, backwards, and miserable.
Sparse reporting, no word yet if any of these spies was hot?
Most people in Afghanistan never need reading glasses, they can't read and never live long enough to need them. (life expentancy for women is 41)
..another example of how islam doesn't allow for the killing of 'innocents' - the survivor survived by reciting koran verses in arabic.
The Taliban murdered these honorable docotrs because they (the Taliban-may feces and swine be upon them) prefer their followers to be blind. As for the orange beards. I always laugh when I see a Muslim walking around looking like he has a Kool-Aid die job. Who was dipping their goatee in the Pink Swimingo?
Muslims want to join the NASA space program and Obama is making a concerted effort to make this happen. I say put as many on a rocket as you can fit and send them on a one way trip to the Sun.
Why were these doctors there? Millions of pounds spent on their training, including going through university, to be slaughtered like lambs by Muslim barbarians. What a waste of brains. Doctors are better off here in the West, where they're needed and appreciated. Not in ramshackle Muslim crapholes where, like other infidels, they're treated as trash by the local barbarians. No Western doctor should treat Muslims in Muslim countries. Let Allah sort it out. And lastly, no infidel aid of any kind should go to these savages.
These doctors were true martyrs. Being killed for doing good by savages.
Hmmm...wonder where these pious muslims got this fashion tip from? Please, someone enlighten me.
/sarc
Islam is the worst thing ever inflicted upon mankind...
..and stupid,and arrogant,and mysogenistic,and repulsive,and way too wrapped up,and paranoid,and backward,and pagan,and tribal,and EXPENSIVE,and,essentially..USELESS.
Now that's what I call "The Antigospel," Marisol--you impish li'l evangelista, you.
It is common in Afghanistan for older men to dye their beards with henna....
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This article makes it sound like no more than some sort of cultural fashion.
"In imitation of Muhammad".
Indeed. And why did he do it? To look more 'virile' and thus more menacing to his victims. Of course, this was before the invention of "Grecian Formula for Men"—but since this is Bi'da, pious Muslims need to make do with henna for striking fear into the hearts of their victims—good-hearted Kaffir *doctors*, in this case, just trying to ease some of the suffering in Dar-al-Islam.