Taliban threaten more war crimes against captured soldier

Bill Roggio:

A senior commander in the Haqqani Network has threatened to kill a captured US soldier unless Coalition forces end operations in two districts in Paktika and Ghazni provinces in eastern Afghanistan.

Abdullah Jalali, a spokesman for Mullah Sangeen Zadran, who claimed to have captured the soldier in late June, said the US military must end the search operations in the Giro district in Ghazni province and the Khoshamand district in Paktika or the soldier would be killed. Jalali made the statement in a telephone interview with the Associated Press.

But Jalali also said the fate of the soldier will ultimately be decided by Mullah Omar, the overall leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The US military has launched an intensive operation in eastern Afghanistan in an effort to recover the soldier, who went missing on June 30 after leaving a small combat outpost in Paktika province along with three Afghan soldiers. The US has designated one platoon per battalion throughout the eastern theater to search for the soldier, who has not been named.

The US military has continued operations in Paktika and Ghazni. Just last night, US and Afghan forces captured nine Haqqani Network fighters during raids in Paktika and neighboring Khost province, another Haqqani Network stronghold. Combined forces also detained a Haqqani Network fighter in Ghazni province on July 12.

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The soldier is probably not in Afghanistan, a US intelligence official familiar with the search told The Long War Journal. The official believes the soldier has been moved into a Haqqani Network safe house in the Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan in Pakistan.

There is much more.

So, are the enemy bound by the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners or not? Where are all those who have deemed it so important for the US to follow the Conventions when it comes to the actions of our enemy? Why doesn't the US demand a Red Cross visit with this guy?

If nothing else such talk would take the propaganda value away from the Taliban's use of this prisoner.

Comments

  1. Artfldgr3:54 PM

    the geneva convention only applies to signatories that agreed. outside of that, its anything goes, technically.

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