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Taliban kill 7 Afghans accused of spying
The Taliban have shot dead at least seven Afghan civilians whom they captured on suspicion of working for the government or other organisations, police and the militants said on Monday.The civilians were taken from cars, buses and taxis that were stopped on the main road between Kabul and the southern city of Kandahar on Sunday, said the Deputy Police Chief for Zabul province Jailani Khan. "They have shot them dead. Their bodies are with the police," he said. The seven were abducted in Ghazni province, south of Kabul, and killed in neighbouring Zabul, he said. The Police Chief of Ghazni Khan Mohammad Mujahed, said he had reports that 15 people were taken from the road and all been killed. His men were trying to locate the bodies, he said. Mujahed said the men were dragged from cars along the highway over the past several days. A spokesman for the Taliban, Zabihullah Mujahed, also said the militants had killed 15 "spies of the government" who had been captured on the road in recent days. Prostitutes: The hard-line militia on Sunday shot dead two women whom they said were prostitutes and had worked for the police, a claim rejected by the government. President Hamid Karzai condemned the killing and several other recent militants attacks in his country, his office said in a statement. The Taliban imposed a harsh version of Shariah law during their 1996-2001 rule of Afghanistan that included executions for various offences. They are now waging an insurgency against the new government and have killed several Afghans who work with the administration as part of a violent intimidation campaign that has also seen a wave of suicide bombings. In June, the Taliban based in Pakistan beheaded Afghans whom they had also accused of spying. Karzai met the families of the men in Kabul on Monday and vowed afterwards that their deaths would be "avenged." Posted by: Fred 2008-07-15 |
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