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Taliban Rebels Kill Nine; Relatives Stage Retaliatory Attack
 EFL:KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Suspected Taliban militants raided a village and killed nine tribesmen, and vengeance-seeking relatives killed four people in another hamlet, an official said Thursday, as violence simmered ahead of key parliamentary elections. The nine ethnic Hazaras were killed when rebels raided their village Monday in central Uruzgan province, Gov. Jan Mohammed Khan said. The victim's relatives staged a retaliatory raid Wednesday against a nearby ethnic Pashtun hamlet, killing four people, he said. The Taliban are mostly of Pashtuns, the dominant ethnic group in southern Afghanistan. Security forces were deployed to the region to reduce tension between the two communities, Khan said. Posted by: Steve 2005-07-21 |
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