Two kidnapped Chinese men freed in Afghanistan

[Robb]

Source: Agence France-Presse (via MSN)

Two Chinese nationals kidnapped three months ago by the Taliban in Afghanistan have been freed and are in good health, the government in Beijing said on Tuesday.

The pair were kidnapped on January 16 as they were working on a road project in Afghanistan's northern province of Faryab. The Taliban had claimed responsibility for their abduction.

"The Chinese workers kidnapped in Afghanistan in January of this year were safely rescued and are in good physical condition," the foreign ministry said in a statement faxed to AFP.

"We express our gratitude for their safe rescue, and our thanks to all relevant sides who worked toward this," it said, giving no details on the circumstances or timing of their release.

Read more: http://news.ph.msn.com/regional/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4054849

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[Soylent Brice]

1. excellent news.

K&R

[Jumping John]

2. I bet they will have horrendous stories of torture and beatings. No wait they were........

Held by the Taliban - Never Mind.

[Robb]

3. Considering the fate of the last Chinese held by Taliban

...you sound rather uninformed.

[Jumping John]

4. And that would be important how??

[Robb]

5. (facepalm)

[Jumping John]

6. Question too hard for a real answer?

[Robb]

7. You can't be serious.

...You're asking what bearing earlier treatment of Chinese prisoners by the Taliban has on current treatment of Chinese prisoners by the Taliban? :crazy:

[Jumping John]

8. Well they are treating them nice now so that they can be ransomed for more arms - right?

And the ransom will be paid by China - right? So the war is escalating in Afghanistan and the result will be that the US is going to be fighting China in a way as they will be supplying the arms to the Taliban - right? . And they hold the purse strings of the US by the treasury bond debt - right. And the way that the US and Nato are killing innocent men, women, children and babies (sometimes pregnant women BTW), so the people will turn against Nato and the USA, this will surely cause the ranks of the Taliban to swell - right? And soon China will see that arming the Taliban will help their economy - right? And then China can laugh at the US as they become more friendly with the Taliban and start funding their arms needs without being prompted by a ransom demand - right. And the US will continue killing even more innocents - right? And the war will escalate further - right? And more attacks on the US Military will evolve - right? And George W Bush will be hosted on a campaign event of some war mongering Rethugblican and say,"See this is why we need to elect this candidate - right. And the war criminal that the Dems could not find the gumption to do their duty to impeach will be able to assert to all the Rethugblicans that the struggle that is ongoing is what he called it when he was in office, "A Never ending War" - right.

So now we see why it is important.........................................................Sadly .

It is time to leave Afghanistan.

[Robb]

9. Word salad - it's what's for dinner.

Staggering lack of truth, too. You should perhaps read the article.

As an aside, China is spending billions on infrastructure and investment in Afghanistan, mostly mining concerns. And they've not been cutting in the Taliban for about a year now.

[Jumping John]

10. Oh my bad. I hope that anything I said has not disrupted the great US plan for Afghanistan