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According to a just-released UN report<\/a>, Taliban forces retaking the Yakoalong district earlier this year basically rounded up all the males they could find and had them executed. Oh, and tortured. And desecrated the bodies.<\/p>\n

And these are the folks crying bloody murder over heartless US aggression? These are the folks trying to rally the Muslim world around the virtue of their cause?<\/p>\n

Feh.<\/p>\n

(Via InstaPundit<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to a just-released UN report, Taliban forces retaking the Yakoalong district earlier this year basically rounded up all the males they could find and had them executed. 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