shades of vlad the impaler?

Residents nicknamed it “khooni chowk” or “bloody intersection” because the militants would leave their victims’ bodies there — some decapitated, some killed in other brutal fashions. The dead often were left hanging from trees. Some had notes attached that accused the victims of spying and told local residents not to move the bodies until specified times.

good old vlad would do this kind of stuff to his own people to show the invading turks how brutal he could be. hundreds of years later, this is what’s happening in pakistan. brother to brother. kinsman to kinsman.

and to think the swat valley was, until recently, the switzerland of pakistan. what a mess…