Thursday - July 21, 2005

Afghan Pizza Man Convicted In Britain

Londoners might be surprised to learn they have been getting their pizzas from a murderous Afghan warlord ....

(MIDDLE EAST TIMES)— Afghan warlord Faryadi Sarwar Zardad was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a London court on July 19 for torture and hostage-taking in Afghanistan in a landmark case for international law.

Zardad, 42, who lived in south London, had denied the charges, which included keeping a “human dog” to savage his victims. The ruling came as Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai met Prime Minister Tony Blair during a brief trip to London. In the first trial of its kind under a UN torture convention, Zardad, who fled to Britain in 1998 on a fake passport, was prosecuted at the Old Bailey even though he is not a British citizen and his crimes were committed overseas.

Treacy said he was sure Zardad had personally shot dead one man in the presence of his men. He was also present and knew what was about to happen when a bus containing men of different ethnic origins was shot up.

The British jury, who unanimously convicted the warlord on Monday, heard evidence of summary execution, the slaughter of 10 or 11 men in a minibus, and an old man imprisoned in a metal cupboard and whipped with a bicycle cable. The court was also told about the “human dog” kept by Zardad and his men, a man in chains who would be set on victims to bite them.

Zardad fled to Britain in 1998 to seek asylum after fighting both the Russians and the Taliban during Afghanistan’s civil war between 1992 and 1996. He ran a pizza take-out shop in Streatham, a suburb of south London, but two years later was confronted first by a BBC television crew and then by British anti-terrorist detectives.

Posted by The Skipper     on 07/21/2005 at 02:43 AM   
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