{"id":37006,"date":"2013-08-08T10:08:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T14:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37006"},"modified":"2013-08-08T10:08:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T14:08:50","slug":"taliban-wipe-out-family-during-religious-observance-in-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37006","title":{"rendered":"Taliban wipe out family during religious observance in cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Associated Press<\/a> reports that 14 members of a family were killed by a single bomb during their observance of Eid al-Fitr while they visited the grave of a family member who passed;<\/p>\n

It’s unclear why the family was targeted, but they were visiting the grave of a relative, a tribal elder named Haji Khayali who worked for a security company and who was killed by the Taliban earlier this year.<\/p>\n

The dead man’s brother, Haji Ghalib, who said his daughter was among those killed Thursday, blamed the Taliban for the attack. Ghalib, who was not with his family when the attack happened, said over the telephone that he also worked at a security company and was a member of a local peace council seeking to reconcile with the insurgents.<\/p>\n

Ghalib said he had fought in the war against the Soviet occupation and was also a former inmate at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Imprisoned as a Taliban sympathizer, he was released in 2007 after serving four years.<\/p>\n

“My family is finished. These people are inhuman,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My guess is that this is just a taste of what’s in store for Afghans after the withdrawal of most of the coalition’s forces next year. It’s a tragedy that the people will have to suffer the consequences of the ruling elite who used the US to line their own pockets instead of ridding their country of these animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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