Death of Afghan elder raises tension

[dArKeR]

Shayesta Khan should not have been killed. He was about 75, a village elder with a long white beard and a white cap, a peacemaker who settled local squabbles. He said he liked the Americans and once helped U.S. troops search a villager's home for weapons.

Khan never expected U.S. soldiers to show up at his house in the middle of the night. When they did, bursting into his family compound on May 17, Khan was asleep. By the time the soldiers left, Khan was dead, shot in his pajamas in his bedroom.

What happened in between is not clear. The U.S. military says Khan was shot because he did not obey commands to stop moving. The Afghan government and Khan's family say he was shot for no reason.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/chitribts/20050626/ts_chicagotrib/deathofafghanelderraisestension

[roguevalley]

1. God. Someone's grandpa. God help us from our sins.

[Rainscents]

2. So sad... shooting someone who was almost 80 years old.

[ConsAreLiars]

3. It is in the nature of a fascist occupation to kill the innocents.

That is what the SS do. They invade homes in the middle of the night and kill anyone who moves. Deny it if you wish, but this is the Fourth Reich. Our poor young men, and a few women, are being turned into monsters. All in the name of corporatist hegemony, usually called "freedom" by the propagandist media.

[sattahipdeep]

4. "Buzzy" Krongard's Dog "Jack" Idema

HAYWARD
Guilty plea for money transfers
Pizzeria owner sent funds to Pakistan and
Afghanistan

Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer

Monday, June 20, 2005

A Hayward pizzeria owner has pleaded guilty
to charges that he illegally transferred nearly
$1 million to people in Afghanistan and
Pakistan.

Some of the money went to a bounty hunter
and former U.S. Army special forces member
named Jonathan "Jack" Idema, who is serving
five years in prison for torturing Afghan
detainees, Virginia Kice, regional spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement, said Sunday.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/06/20/BAG4LDB4GI1.DTL

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1355926#1364502

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1332757

[sattahipdeep]

5. Tell me where Osama is, Musharraf asks

"If the person is a terrorist, we will hand him over," Karzai said.
"But the doors of people should not be broken again.
And no one should enter their houses in the middle of the night."