(March 21, 2014)
Four young Taliban gunmen died Thursday night in a shootout with Afghan security forces hours after they slipped into a luxury hotel popular with Westerners in central Kabul and fired on guests during a new year's celebration, officials reported.
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Sources told NBC News that the nine guests were killed execution-style, including five women and two children. That claim could not immediately be verified.
Interior Ministry spokesman Sidiq Siddiqi said the four gunmen hid three hours in bathrooms at the Serena Hotel during a celebration of Nowruz, the Afghan and Persian new year marking the spring equinox.
He said the attackers, who appeared to be about 18 years old, had concealed pistols in their socks and slipped into the heavily guarded five-star hotel about 6 p.m. by claiming they were there for a special buffet. About 9:15 p.m., when the dining room would have been packed, the attackers emerged and fired at diners.
Commandos killed all four and secured the hotel two hours later, Siddiqi said.I don't know how anyone can claim that their religion mandates such a senseless slaughter of innocents.
I do know that in America there is at least one Baptist sects *(Westboro)* which goes around to the funeral of American servicemen and praise their deaths. They are entitled to their opinion, although it causes much grief to the families of the dead. Still ... they don't kill people!
That may be the defining difference between American religious extremists, and the Eastern Brand of religious extremists. I can't say that I find any personal affinity between my personal religious beliefs and either of these, but I can say that any religious conviction which deliberately causes harm/grief/death to other people is not one which I can accept.
Who ARE these people? And why are they so filled with hate? Both the Baptist and the Muslim faith claim to be the Religion of Peace.
I doubt them all.
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One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
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