Nicki sends us a link to Stars & Stripes which reports the arrest of Abdul Saboor who has admitted that in 2012 he murdered Air Force Lt. Col. John D. Loftis of Paducah, Ky., and Maryland Army National Guard Maj. Robert J. Marchanti II of Baltimore while they were in the Interior Ministry building.
The shooting deaths of the two American advisers came in the early days of deadly riots across the country over news that American soldiers had burned Qurans at Bagram Air Field. The slayings prompted NATO to temporarily withdraw all coalition advisers from Afghan ministries.
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The Taliban had claimed responsibility for the incident and said it was retaliation by one of their fighters for the Quran burning. News about the burning of the Muslim holy books at the Parwan Detention Facility came just weeks after video surfaced of Marines urinating on Taliban corpses.
The Afghans had identified Saboor as the shooter at the time, but he had fled to Bamiyan province where he was arrested Monday.
Pity he wasn’t “shot while trying to escape” but at least he’s caught.
I was thinking something similar. Might still happen, though.
Yep. “He fell down flights of stairs and into doors, repeatedly, while being escorted”.
Tripped and fell on his fork while eating.
He will probably only serve time until the next mass prison breakout.
Please. Just let me at him. I just need a couple of hours. I’ll make ear necklaces fashionable again.
I’d get happy but for all we know he went in the front door in cuffs and out the back without them. The story’s details are scant. Was he hiding in plain sight? Will there be a trial? He admitted his “responsibiity.” I have no idea what that means. Do they get to tie him to stakes and let the buzzards have their way with him? Will his family be murdered as he watches? Anyone familiar with how this works in Afghanistan, please chime in.