{"id":4673,"date":"2007-10-03T02:07:41","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T02:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2007\/10\/taliban-hang-kid-possessing-us-dollars\/"},"modified":"2007-10-03T02:07:41","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T02:07:41","slug":"taliban-hang-kid-possessing-us-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2007\/10\/taliban-hang-kid-possessing-us-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban hang a kid for possessing US Dollars!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Are we seeing a return of the Taliban fundamentalism \u2013 a revival of the 1980-90s era??  With Iraq now a quagmire.. and Iran being brought into the equation by the US, and Afghanistan back to its old times (Bamiyan Deja vu), the world threat from the idiots in the US administration \u2013 who won\u2019t fight the wars they should and fight the wars they shouldn\u2019t \u2013 and the Islamic extremists is at an all-time high!<\/p>\n<p>Here they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/21084653\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">hanged a kid<\/a> who was caught with US Dollars in his possession.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\">Taliban militants hanged a teenager in southern Afghanistan because he had U.S. money in his pocket, and they stuffed five $1 bills in his mouth as a warning to others not to use dollars, police said Monday. Taliban militants elsewhere killed eight police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\">The 15-year-old boy was hanged from a tree on Sunday in Helmand, the most violent province in the country and the world\u2019s No. 1 poppy-growing region.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are we seeing a return of the Taliban fundamentalism &#8211; a revival of the 1980-90s era??  With Iraq now a quagmire.. and Iran being brought into the equation by the US, and Afghanistan back to its old times (Bamiyan Deja vu), the world threat from the idiots in the US administration &#8211; who won&#8217;t fight the wars they should and fight the wars they shouldn&#8217;t &#8211; and the Islamic extremists is at an all-time high!<\/p>\n<p>Here they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/21084653\/\">hanged a kid<\/a> who was caught with US Dollars in his possession.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\">Taliban militants hanged a teenager in southern Afghanistan because he had U.S. money in his pocket, and they stuffed five $1 bills in his mouth as a warning to others not to use dollars, police said Monday. Taliban militants elsewhere killed eight police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-terrorism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Taliban hang a kid for possessing US Dollars!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Are we seeing a return of the Taliban fundamentalism - a revival of the 1980-90s era?? 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