November 28, 2007
Afghan IED Murderers' Sentences Reduced from Death to 3 Months
With each passing day I become less and less convinced that anything good can come from Afghanistan. Ever. Seriously, I want to believe that the democracy project can succeed, but I'm losing faith.
Finland has issued a written diplomatic note to the government in Kabul, requesting an investigation into the basis of pardoning of the Afghan assailants whose roadside bomb killed a Finnish peacekeeper earlier this year.Hat tip: Fred Fry, who's back in the tip business.
Peacekeeper Sgt. Petri Immonen, 29, was killed in a roadside bomb attack in Maimana in the north of Afghanistan in May. The blast from an improvised explosive device or IED also killed a local passer-by and injured three Norwegian peacekeepers....Originally, the perpetrators were sentenced to death. Then the verdict was reduced to 20 years' imprisonment, and ultimately the men only served three months, the Norwegian daily VG reported yesterday in its online edition.
According to the Norwegian information, the secret decision to free the men was made by the Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
The accused were set free on October 9th.
By Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. at 11:08 AM |
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