AP Afghan Lawmakers Demand Convert Be Held

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Afghan Lawmakers Demand Convert Be Held

By DANIEL COONEY, Associated Press Writer 17 minutes ago

KABUL, Afghanistan -
Afghanistan's parliament demanded Wednesday that the government prevent a man who faced the death penalty for abandoning Islam for Christianity from being able to flee the country.


Abdul Rahman, 41, was released from prison Monday after a court dropped charges of apostasy against him because of a lack of evidence and suspicions he may be mentally ill. President Hamid Karzai had been under heavy international pressure to drop the case.

Rahman was released from the high-security Policharki prison on the outskirts of the capital late Monday. Justice Minister Mohammed Sarwar Danish said Tuesday that Rahman was staying at a "safe location" in Kabul.

His current whereabouts are unknown but he likely is still in the country.

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1. it ain't over folks. Afghan, like Irag is a boil festering

[Inland]

2. Aww, you mean Bush's boxes of cash haven't ended the issue?

He's going to have to deal with the theocracy of our own creation in place of a theocracy?

Well, at least it's a less bloody theocracy, by far. At the moment.

[Dhalgren]

3. That's the problem; any Theocracy that isn't bloody, hasn't had

to be yet. But it will, eventually. That is the nature of oppression - it is always headed for bloodshed.

The one thing that all Americans, and the government in particular, ignores and wants to lie about is that the Taliban were not usurpers. They were the legitimate government and had wide support. They were and are religious thugs, totalitarian purists who had/has no concept of humanity, humaneness, or compassion - typical theocrats of any stripe. But they were not unpopular within their own country, sadly enough...

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4. i think our piggy bank is broke.

[David__77]

5. Hard to believe a communist government ruled the country.

It's almost unfathomable that a communist party seized power in the first place and managed to maintain power for a year and a half before the Soviet invasion. Interestingly, the communist government maintained far more control nationally than does the current puppet government under US bayonets.

[Eugene]

6. Berlusconi: Abdul Rahman "is already in Italy." - AP

Afghan Arrives in Italy After Fleeing

Wednesday March 29, 2006 5:46 PM

AP Photo LON813

ROME (AP) - The Afghan man who faced the death penalty after converting from Islam
to Christianity flew to Rome on Wednesday after the Italian government granted him asylum.
Abdul Rahman, 41, "is already in Italy. I think he arrived overnight," Premier Silvio
Berlusconi said.

[saigon68]

7. Spirirted out by Blackwater Mercenaries on a gulfstream jet

Helps to have friends in high Places