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Afghanistan/South Asia
Militants kill Afghan woman 'spy'
2005-08-10
Suspected Taleban militants have killed an Afghan woman they accused of spying for the Americans, officials say. Gunmen shot the woman dead near her house on Tuesday night in southern Zabul Province. She has not been named. Rebels have killed many men in a rising wave of intimidation, but this is the first time a woman has been targeted since the Taleban fell in 2001.
Just catching up on their backlog, how many women did the Taleban kill before 2001, mister BBC?
Meanwhile, a US soldier has died from wounds sustained in a bomb attack in central Afghanistan on Tuesday.

Six militants burst into the woman's house in Mizan district of Zabul Province on Tuesday night, district chief Haji Mohammad Younus said.
They dragged her out of her house and shot her dead before leaving on motorcycles, taking her brother and father with them, he said. Abdul Latif Hakimi, who claims to speak for the Taleban, said the guerrillas killed the woman "because she was spying for the American invaders".
He confirmed that two male relatives of the victim had been kidnapped but said they were alive.
"For now"
The death of the US soldier following Tuesday's bomb attack in central Ghazni Province brought to five the number of US troops killed in Afghanistan in the past week. He died of his wounds shortly after arrival at the US military base at Bagram where he had been airlifted for treatment, a US military statement said. Another soldier wounded in the attack is in a stable condition. The US unit was conducting an operation to "disrupt enemy activity in the region" when they came under attack, the statement said.
Posted by:Steve

#4  
BBC
Burquas are
Best
Club
Posted by: BigEd   2005-08-10 13:42  

#3  But it won't be the last. If this is bad, imagine if we let them ever gain power again. There would be a lot of women killed.
Posted by: plainslow   2005-08-10 10:42  

#2  They dragged her out of her house and shot her dead before leaving on motorcycles, taking her brother and father with them, he said.

I'd bet that if someone took a random shot at any person on a motorcycle, the Taliban would lose another member. :D
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-08-10 10:36  

#1  "but this is the first time a woman has been targeted since the Taleban fell in 2001."

BBC,

You just can't report the news without the "Finger In The Eye Syndrome," can you?

"Six militants burst into the woman's house"

Art thou bravest among all of Allah's children.
Posted by: Poison Reverse   2005-08-10 10:20  

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