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| Afghanistan |
| Taliban hangs three men |
| 2007-04-02 |
| Taliban has announced it hanged three men in the small town of Musa Qala in south of Afghanistan. The town has been controlled by Taliban for two months now. Taliban claims responsibility for the incident, announced a commander of the group, who identified himself as Mullah Nizam. He said the three were found guilty of espionage in a Taliban court. One body was strung up in the center of the town and the other two at its entrances. "They confessed they were spying for the government and foreign forces. We hanged them to set an example for others not to spy on us," Nizam said. He claimed the three had in particular spied on late commander Mullah Abdul Manan, whose forces took control of the town early February. Manan was killed February 11 in a precision air strike by NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which is attempting to fight a growing Taliban insurgency. Afghan police forces have been particularly hard-hit this year, as they comprise the bulk of more than 130 members of Afghan security forces killed by the Taliban. |
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