Tuesday, July 19, 2005

UK jails Afghan leader for 20 years

A British judge has sentenced a former Afghan militia leader to 20 years in jail for torturing and terrorising civilians in his homeland for more than four years.

That's not nearly as long as his victims will be dead, but I guess it's better
than nothing.

Prosecutors have said the case was the first of its kind in Britain. Farayadi Sarwar Zardad, 42, was convicted on Monday of running a private army that brutalised Afghans in the Sarobi district east of Kabul which he commanded in the 1990s before he was ousted by the Taliban.

I think the Afghans were going to hang "Zardad's Dog."

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