Kabul: First post-Taliban execution in Afganistan

[JohnLocke]

Kabul: First post-Taliban execution
Nic Robertson -- CNN
Tuesday, April 27, 2004
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KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The first execution of the post-Taliban era has taken place in Afghanistan after President Hamid Karzai "reluctantly" signed an order, his spokesman said.
The execution of Abdullah Shah, a former checkpoint commander, took place shortly after Karzai signed the order on Monday, the spokesman added.
CNN's Nic Robertson said that the execution is thought to have taken place at a jail just outside Kabul. Most likely it was carried out by shooting, he said.
Shah, also known as "The Sarobi Dog," was second in command at a deadly checkpoint outside the town of Sarobi on the Kabul-Jalalabad road in eastern Afghanistan.
He earned his nickname during the Mujahadeen era, from 1992 to 1996, for barking like a dog at travelers who refused to pay illegal roadside tolls. He reputedly killed thousands who failed to hand over cash and goods.
Shah was sentenced to death by the Afghan Supreme Court in a high-profile televised trial a year ago. Karzai has twice tried to have its ruling overturned but ultimately, in line with the constitution, cleared the way for Shah's execution by signing the death warrant Monday.
This is the first execution authorized by Karzai since he came to power in December 2001. Aides said that in the past year he has managed to get a stay of execution for two other criminals sentenced to death.
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[Miss Authoritiva]

1. Welcome back to Texas!

n/t

[maddezmom]

2. discussed here today

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x512381

[leesa]

3. Post-Taliban era, that's a hoot! Taliban is alive and well and bigger

than ever thanks to the foolish neocons.

[IndianaGreen]

4. It gets easier after this

once a country embarks on the death penalty, it gets easier to execute people.

The US is more barbaric than Afghanistan for unlike them, we execute children and the mentally impaired!