Taliban threaten more attacks on Canadians

GLORIA GALLOWAY

Globe and Mail Update

August 17, 2008 at 10:04 AM EDT

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — The Taliban issued an open letter to Canada Sunday saying more Canadians will be killed like the aid workers who were gunned down near Kabul last week if troops are not pulled out of Afghanistan.

“Afghanistan has to try to have good relations with you, but if your government continues a reversed policy, the Afghans will be obliged to kill your nationals, in revenge for their brothers, their sisters, and their children. Events such as Logar will happen again, because occupied Afghanistan looks at all actors that are established in the interest of America with an eye of hostility,” the Taliban said in the letter that was signed the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

“Therefore, you have to convince your government to put an end to the occupation of Afghanistan, so that the Afghans are not killed with your hands and so that you are not killed with the hands of the Afghans.”

Jackie Kirk of Montreal, Shirley Case of Williams Lake, B.C., and Nicole Dial, a dual citizen of the United States and Trinidad, were travelling with an Afghan driver near Logar south of Kabul last Wednesday when their white sport utility vehicle marked with the emblems of their organization, the International Rescue Committee, was riddled with bullets.
The vehicle was travelling in an area considered relatively safe. And the Taliban does not usually target western women for that type of brutal execution.

Neither the Canadian military nor Foreign Affairs officials in Afghanistan would comment Sunday.

“The Canadian people have to realize if their sisters, their brothers, and their children are being killed in Afghanistan, it is because of the wrong policy of the government of Canada and their falling under the influence of others when they sent occupation soldiers to Afghanistan,” said the letter.

“The Canadian people, when they express condolences for the death of two Canadian women in Logar in Afghanistan, and consider themselves grieved, they have to know that the Canadian forces, under American command, handicap tens among the Afghan people every day to this kind of condolence, and they kill, in addition to men, numbers of women and children, as well.”

The territory that is firmly under Taliban control in Kandahar province where the Canadians are stationed has expanded greatly over the past two years. Roads that were once safe for western officials to drive are now off limits because of safety concerns. And foreign aid workers have had to scale back operations in this country where the poorest and most vulnerable can simply not be reached.

“The Afghans did not go to Canada to kill the Canadians. Rather, it is the Canadians who came to Afghanistan to kill and torture the Afghan, to please the fascist regime of America. Your government did not take into account the national interests of Canada, and did not follow a neutral policy. It sacrificed its national and international respect and standing in service of the interests of America.”




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As if shooting / executing civilian aid workers will help their cause. Instead of using IED'S, hiding among civilians, killing civilians etc why don't they just come out in the open and engage.

"a soldier loses when he does not win, but a guerilla wins when he does not lose."

I fail to see how this classifies as propaganda...sounds more like a threat to me and considering the source, one that should be taken very seriously....

Wise words, these be.