Afghan who had statues destroyed killed

[Proud2BAmurkin]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070126/ap_on_re_as/afghanistan

By AMIR SHAH, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 46 minutes ago


KABUL, Afghanistan - A NATO airstrike destroyed a Taliban command post in southern Afghanistan, killing a suspected senior militant leader, the alliance said Friday. Separately, an assailant gunned down an Afghan lawmaker who, under the former Taliban regime, oversaw the destruction of two Buddha statues carved into a cliff.

[Itchinjim]

1. Karma's a Bitch

[flamin lib]

2. Couldn't happen to an nicer guy . . . nt

[soothsayer]

3. why did no one stop them from destroying those beautiful buddhas?

The world should be ashamed (even tho Buddhists prolly laughed over it---but I'm not that evolved!)

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. Sure.

The irony is that Buddhists would be more upset about the killing of this Taliban leader than the destruction of any old statue.

[Glorfindel]

5. Buddhists are nicer people than I am...so I get to rejoice!!!

:bounce: :party: :beer:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. Alright.

Just don't blow up any statues.

[Warpy]

9. Buddhists don't

because he's just going to come back and have an even worse load of bad Karma to work through.

[soothsayer]

7. Of course you're right. Dammit!

[Warpy]

8. They are being rebuilt

believe it or not. Sensible Afghans know it's a picture of their past, set into stone.

The one group in this world that didn't blow a gasket over those statues were the Buddhists. Buddha was an ordinary man, and statues aren't worshiped.