Provincial officials have reported finding six bodies of government contractors in the Kandahar Province, all of them beheaded after apparent capture by the Taliban.
According to police spokesmen, the contractors were working for the Afghan National Police force to construct police compounds and checkpoints across the province. The Taliban have yet to confirm responsibility for the killings.
The bodies were initially found by villagers, dumped by the side of the road. The Taliban regularly target contractors working on large government projects, either holding them up for “protection” money or killing them outright.
The Taliban did confirm involvement in a separate attack in Kabul, hitting the Loya Jirga which is discussing continuing the US occupation beyond 2014. The weekend bombing killed 12, according to officials, including three soldiers.
A cruel tune though it may be, if you listen very closely you can hear the world's smallest violin playing the National Anthem over the corpses of these soldiers of fortune…without whom our democracy (and the safety of US interests abroad) would not be possible.
Probably time to start getting sized for a blue greeter's vest at Wal-Mart, huh? When you play football in a minefield, every now and then a play isn't going to end well. I hate it for the men who were killed, but they knew the risks going in there and doing those kinds of jobs.