Taliban Cut Off Fingers of Two Voters
August 22, 2009
Associated Press

Taliban militants cut off the ink-stained fingers of two Afghan voters in the militant south during the presidential election, the country's top election monitoring group said Saturday.

Two voters who had dipped their index fingers in purple ink - a fraud prevention measure - were attacked in Kandahar province shortly after voting Thursday, said Nader Nadery, the head of the Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan. Kandahar is the spiritual birthplace of the Taliban.

Rumors that militants would cut off voters' ink-stained fingers spread before the vote. A Taliban spokesman had said militants would not carry out such attacks, but the Taliban is a loose organization of individual commanders who could carry out the threat on their own.

Millions of Afghans voted in the country's second-ever direct presidential election, although Taliban threats and attacks appeared to hold down the turnout, especially in the south where President Hamid Karzai was expected to run strongly among his fellow Pashtuns. At least 26 Afghan civilians and security forces died in dozens of militant attacks.

If results show that more people voted in the north than the south, "then we will have an issue," Nadery said.

Fewer votes in the south would harm the chances of Karzai to win a second five-year term, and increase the chances that his top challenger, former Foreign Minster Abdullah Abdullah, could pull off an upset.

If neither candidate gets 50 percent in the first round, they will go to a second round runoff. Initial preliminary results won't be announced until Tuesday, and final results won't be certified until mid-September.

Nadery said his group saw widespread problems of election officials who were not impartial and were pressuring people to vote for certain candidates. Election monitors also saw voters carrying boxes of voter cards - so many votes could be cast - to polling sites, he said.

Both Karzai and Abdullah claimed to be ahead in early vote counting. Karzai's campaign insisted Friday he would have enough votes to avoid a runoff. Abdullah countered that he was leading but suspected there would be a runoff.

Election officials called on the candidates to refrain from such claims, which could delay the formation of a new government.

Officials of Afghan and international monitoring teams agreed it was too early to say who won or to know whether fraud was extensive enough to affect the outcome.

The European Union on Saturday said the election represented a "victory for democracy," and that the vote count must be carried out in a transparent manner. The EU has deployed teams of election monitors.

The EU's external affairs commissioner, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, said a fair vote is necessary to ensure that elected candidates enjoy public support.

President Barack Obama congratulated the Afghan people Friday for pulling off the election in the midst of violent intimidation.

http://www.military.com/news/article/taliban-cut-off-fingers-of-two-voters.html?ESRC=eb.nl




Provost

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States 1924-1929

More evidence of the depravity and intolerance of modern Islam.

lies more lies
taliban are pro democracy
and pro women rights

nato did it

More evidence of the depravity and intolerance of modern Islam.****************

RE: so islam says cut off fingers if u vote?..... oh jezz u more fcuked in the head earlier assumed

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democracy is haram in islam .

SURRENDER OF PAKI ARMY IN 1971
1N 1971 A NEW HISTORY AS WELL AS A NEW NATION WAS CREATED BY WE THE INDIANS..

no its not dum dum
islam carried out lection 1500 years ago dum dum
you again high on cow urien

aaahhhhh Islamphobia never ends......don't know why people are so scared of Islam.....Afghan has their own tribal rule, they follow pashtun law...has nothing to do anything with Islam...



PEACE

islam carried out lection 1500 years ago dum dum

Mmmm........no it didn't.

Another Islamic myths and exaggeration fed to ignorants like yourself, like the pretence Islamic "Golden Age" where all Muslim did is stole the knowledge of ancient Greeks, Roman, Byzantium, Persian and use it for themself.

islam carried out lection 1500 years ago dum dum


oh really, was that to elect the seventeenth wife of muhammad?

"oh really, was that to elect the seventeenth wife of muhammad?"

LOL, really.

After all, the so-called "election" in Afghanistan was nothing but to proper U.S.-installed puppets like Hamid Karzai, Abdullah Abdullah, Rashid Dostum etc. to serve main U.S. agenda in Central Asia.

Simply even first-year Indonesian law student knew it while some Islamophobic buffoons ignored the reality while got high on Afghan hashish drugfest. So it's OK to disturb the so-called "election" held by occupying, killing, bombing innocents...

@DAK,

Nice Bond collection...

"If we do [what Hezbollah accomplished], this Israeli army full of gay soldiers and full of corruption and with old-fashioned war methods can be defeated also in Palestine."

Mass abstention and Vote Rigging in Afghanistan election..all that under US supervision!

By Patrick OConnor
21 August 2009
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/aug2009/afgh-a21.shtml

Yesterdays presidential election in Afghanistan featured massive abstention and blatant ballot rigging, underscoring the corrupt character of the entire exercise. Conducted under the guns of 100,000 foreign troops, the vote had nothing to do with democracy and was instead designed to provide a veneer of legitimacy for the US-led NATO forces increasingly bloody counter-insurgency campaign against those resisting the occupation.

Preliminary results are not expected until September 3, with final results two weeks later. If incumbent president Hamid Karzai or another candidate fails to win more than 50 percent of the reported vote, there will be a runoff ballot in October between the top two candidates, expected to be Karzai and former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah.

Election commission official Zekria Barakzai told Agence France-Presse that national turnout might reach 50 percentsharply down from the 70 percent turnout reported in 2004. This years real participation rate was probably considerably lower than Barakzais estimate, although the true figure will likely never be determined due to electoral fraud.

Turnout was zero or near zero in parts of Afghanistans Pashtun-majority south, areas that have seen the worst of the US-NATO onslaught in recent months. The Taliban and other militant groups fighting the occupiers now effectively control large swathes of the country, and were able to enforce their call for a boycott of the presidential election in several areas. Few people voted in other regions in which coalition forces have only tenuous control. In Sangin, Helmand provincecurrently occupied by British-led forcesthe Times of London reported that out of 70,000 eligible voters in the district, fewer than 500 people cast ballots.

Incumbent President Hamid Karzai said that the Taliban had conducted 73 attacks yesterday in 15 of the countrys 34 provinces. According to other reports, between 20 and 30 people were killed. The New York Times reported that insurgents erected roadblocks in one area to deter voting and executed two people in Kandahar whose fingers were stained with the purple ink used to identify voters. These developments came despite efforts by US-NATO and government forces to provide tight securitya total of 300,000 foreign and Afghan soldiers and police were deployed to guard polling stations.

Sections of the US and international media have attributed yesterdays mass abstention entirely to the populations fears over security and possible reprisals from the Taliban. While this was no doubt a factor in some areas, there were similar security fears during the 2004 poll. The election boycott by far broader sections of the population can only be understood as an expression of the widely felt disgust and hostility towards Karzai and the other presidential candidates. His opponents were for the most part corrupt ex-war lords, war criminals, and mafia-type figures vying to become Washingtons chosen figurehead.

The Associated Press reporting from one voting centre in Kabul, said it had swarmed with people in 2004. This year, however, it opened on time at 7 a.m.but with no voters. Local shop owner Mohammad Tahir said: I am not voting. It wont change anything in our country.

Such sentiments were intensified by widespread reports of electoral fraud. About 17 million names were officially registered to votegreater than one-third more than in 2004. A substantial number of these registrationsreportedly as many as 3 millionwere fraudulent. During the election campaign, British reporters found election cards available for sale in Kabul. An inspection of the voter rolls revealed blatantly faked enrolmentsthe BBC highlighted the enrolled Afghan voter named Britney Jamilia Spears.

Several reports emerged yesterday of people arriving at polling stations with multiple voting cards. In addition, supposedly indelible ink used to mark voters fingers proved to be easily washed off with household detergent.

Presidential candidate and ex-World Bank official Ramazan Bashardost responded by calling for the vote to be called off. This is not an election, this is a comedy, he declared.

The Guardian reported: It is difficult to underestimate the embarrassment this will cause election organisers after a failure to buy the correct ink for the 2004 poll led to widespread multiple voting. The so-called ink scandal of 2004 caused fury among many voters and election organisers vowed it would never happen again. In a recent attempt to bolster confidence in the election, the local UN chief Kai Eide invited journalists to watch him attempt to remove ink from his finger with a range of domestic cleaners.

There were also several reports of large-scale ballot stuffing. The Times visited a polling station at Haji Janat Gul High School, in Pul-e-Charki, east of Kabul. Arriving less than an hour after the polls opened, reporters waited for another hour without seeing a single person come to vote. Election supervisors nevertheless insisted that 5,530 ballots were cast before the reporters arrived. In each box there were an oddly uniform 500 to 510 votes, the Times noted. Assuming that the last voter disappeared at least two minutes before the Times arrived at 7.55 a.m., the staff working on the 12 ballot boxes at the site must have been processing at least 100 voters per minute since polling began.

Sources from the Independent Election Commission later admitted that they were investigating reports that up to 70,000 illegal votes had been cast in polling centres around the Haji Janat Gul polling centre.

The British Independent reported from a polling station in Nad-e-Ali, the most populous area of Helmand province: Call it the mystery of the invisible voters ... just over 400 people had voted by 1 p.m. Three hours later, the figure had apparently surged to some 1,200. This despite the fact the streets were empty, all shops and businesses were shut and an Afghan army officer saying his men standing guard had hardly seen any civilians heading to these particular voting booths.... Election officials were later seen counting piles of ballot papers, without even checking the choices, simply declaring the votes had been cast for incumbent president Hamid Karzai.

None of these reports prevented President Barack Obama from endorsing the election. In a White House radio interview yesterday, he declared: We had what appears to be a successful election in Afghanistan despite the Talibans efforts to disrupt it.

The election outcome will likely soon be followed by the deployment of additional US troops to Afghanistan. There are growing calls from within the military and foreign policy establishment for an intensified offensive aimed at suppressing resistance to the occupation and bolstering US hegemony in the country and throughout Central Asia. Obama has pledged to step up operations in both Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistans border region. This strategyinvolving the use of indiscriminate force against civilian populations in both countriesis driven by US imperialisms need to maintain its grip over the strategically vital region.

Opposition to Obamas war drive is escalating among ordinary people in the US. A Washington Post-ABC News opinion poll released yesterday found that 51 percent said the Afghanistan war had not been worth fighting, while 47 percent said it had. Just 24 percent agreed that additional troops should be deployed, against 45 percent who said the present number should be reduced.

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"If we do [what Hezbollah accomplished], this Israeli army full of gay soldiers and full of corruption and with old-fashioned war methods can be defeated also in Palestine."

They bomb the @ss of the voters so that some braindead WAFF trolls can post bullsh!ts about mass abstention.

There is no abstention poissible for sheer stupidity...

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WAFF syndrome explained:

= A pathological liar is someone who often embellishes his or her stories in a way that he or she believes will impress people.

= In psychology, mythomania (also known as pseudologia fantastica or pathological lying) is a condition involving compulsive lying by a person with no obvious motivation.
http://www.bushywood.com/mythomania.htm

Shalom,

Juice agents paid Taliban to cut off the fingers of their countrymen, which they would never do since they are pious and peaceful Mohammedans. This serves the Taliban since they cannot vote, and this serves Tel Aviv since they cannot even turn the pages of the Koran. Win, win, another Juice victory.

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But at least it's funny...

Thunder Supports Rafale
http://rafale.freeforums.org
http://rafale.freeforums.org/rafale-vs-f-16-aerodynamics-compared-t69.html

WAFF syndrome explained:

= A pathological liar is someone who often embellishes his or her stories in a way that he or she believes will impress people.

= In psychology, mythomania (also known as pseudologia fantastica or pathological lying) is a condition involving compulsive lying by a person with no obvious motivation.
http://www.bushywood.com/mythomania.htm

If you read Darra's post you will think Islam isthe most peaceful and humane religion on earth. A utopia which talks about women rights, civil liberties, class-less society etc etc.

Take a look in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and every Islamic country and you know what the truth is, and yeah, dont forget African Islamic countries.

Bunch of retards.




colours of Kaziranga

The reality of Islam is it hates personal freedoms. Even in the so-called progressive Islamic nations. And it's not enough for Moslems to practice their own conservative behavior, they need to try and force it on society as a whole. Violently and intolerantly if necessary.

That's why Islam will never be accepted in the freedom loving west.