Friday, June 11, 2004

Infrastructure -- The Great Satan . . .

. . . or wait, maybe it is China. They are, after all, Godless communists. The New York Times reports on the Chinese engineers and construction workers who were killed in Afghanistan by the Taliban. The Chinese were building a road.

A senior Afghan military commander in southern Afghanistan, Hajji Mir Wali, said Mullah Dadullah, one of the top Taliban commanders, recently issued orders to his fighters to strike at road builders. "His orders were: 'First, you have to kill engineers to stop the building of the roads. Second, you have to burn schools and spread out leaflets. Third, you have to put mines and attack government officials; and fourth, if you can, you have to attack American forces,' " Mr. Wali said. He said he was told of the orders by a member of the Taliban who was present at the meeting in which they were issued.

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