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    Afghan mother and daughter stoned and shot dead after Taliban accused them of ‘moral deviation and adultery’

    Armed men stoned and shot dead a widow and her daughter in Aghanistan after the Taliban accused the women of 'moral deviation and adultery', according to reports.

    The killing happened on Thursday in the Khawaja Hakim area of Ghazni city, the BBC reported, and 2 men have now been arrested.

    Officials - who blamed the Taliban for the attack - told the Corporation that armed men went into the house where the 2 women lived, took them to the yard outside and they were stoned and then shot.

    'Neighbours did not help or inform the authorities on time,' an official told the BBC.

    A neighbour of the executed women told M&G.com he heard shots but was afraid to go out.

    'When the women in the neighbourhood washed the bodies of the killed women, they saw signs of stoning, and the doctors at the local hospital also confirmed to us,' the man, named only as Rahimullah, said.

    However, Ghazni provincial police chief Zilawar Zahid denied the reports that the women were stoned to death.

    He told reporters: 'They were killed inside their house.

    'An investigation is under way to find out why they were killed and Afghan police have arrested 2 men in connection with the case.'

    Officials told the BBC that religious leaders had been issuing fatwas - edicts - asking for reports on anyone who was 'involved in adultery'. Earlier this year horrific video footage emerged of Taliban insurgents stoning a couple to death for alleged adultery in northern Afghanistan.

    It took place in the district of Dashte Archi, in Kunduz, and was met with outrage in the West.

    However, a Taliban spokesman defended the practice, saying: ‘Anyone who knows about Islam knows that stoning is in the Koran, and that it is Islamic law.

    'There are people who call it inhuman - but in doing so they insult the Prophet. They want to bring foreign thinking to this country.'

    Source: Daily Mail, November 11, 2011

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    Taliban publicly execute woman near Kabul: officials

    A man Afghan officials say is a member of the Taliban shot dead a woman accused of adultery in front of a crowd near Kabul, a video obtained by Reuters showed, a sign that the austere Islamist group dictates law even near the Afghan capital.

    In the three-minute video, a turban-clad man approaches a woman kneeling in the dirt and shoots her five times at close range with an automatic rifle, to cheers of jubilation from the 150 or so men watching in a village in Parwan province.

    "Allah warns us not to get close to adultery because it's the wrong way," another man says as the shooter gets closer to the woman. "It is the order of Allah that she be executed".

    Provincial Governor Basir Salangi said the video, obtained on Saturday, was shot a week ago in the village of Qimchok in Shinwari district, about an hour's drive from Kabul.

    Such rare public punishment was a painful reminder to Afghan authorities of the Taliban's 1996-2001 period in power, and it raised concern about the treatment of Afghan women 11 years into theNATO-led war against Taliban insurgents.

    "When I saw this video, I closed my eyes ... The woman was not guilty; the Taliban are guilty," Salangi told Reuters.

    When the unnamed woman, most of her body tightly wrapped in a shawl, fell sideways after being shot several times in the head, the spectators chanted: "Long live the Afghan mujahideen! (Islamist fighters)", a name the Taliban use for themselves.

    The Taliban could not be reached for comment.

    Despite the presence of over 130,000 foreign troops and 300,000 Afghan soldiers and police, the Taliban have managed to resurge beyond their traditional bastions of the south and east, extending their reach into once more peaceful areas like Parwan.

    HARD-WON WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN JEOPARDY?

    Afghan women have won back basic rights in education, voting and work since the Taliban, who deemed them un-Islamic for women, were toppled by U.S.-backed Afghan forces in late 2001.

    But fears are rising among Afghan women, some lawmakers and rights activists that such freedoms could be traded away as the Afghan government and the United States pursue talks with the Taliban to secure a peaceful end to the war.

    Violence against women has increased sharply in the past year, according toAfghanistan's independent human rights commission. Activists say there is waning interest in women's rights on the part of President Hamid Karzai's government.

    "After 10 years (of foreign intervention), and only a few kilometres from Kabul... how could this happen in front of all these people?" female lawmaker Fawzia Koofi said of the public execution in Parwan.

    "This is happening under a government that claims to have made so much progress in women's rights, claims to have changed women's lives, and this is unacceptable. It is a huge step backwards," said Koofi, a campaigner for girls' education who wants to run in the 2014 presidential election.

    Salangi said two Taliban commanders were sexually involved with the woman in Parwan, either through rape or romantically, and decided to torture her and then kill her to settle a dispute between the two of them.

    "They are outlaws, murderers, and like savages they killed the woman," he said, adding that the Taliban exerted considerable sway in his province.

    Earlier this week a 30-year-old woman and two of her children were beheaded in eastern Afghanistan by a man police said was her divorced husband, the latest of a string of so-called "honour killings".

    Some Afghans still refer to Taliban courts for settling disputes, viewing government bodies as corrupt or unreliable. The courts use sharia (Islamic law), which prescribes punishments such as stonings and executions.

    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/s...,4276937.story
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    Taliban beheads 17 civilians in Afghanistan

    Seventeen people were found beheaded in a small town in southern Afghanistan following a party attended by both men and women.

    The beheaded corpses of 15 men and two women were found in the Musa Qala district of Helmand province.

    Local officials told Reuters the victims were killed by Taliban insurgents as punishment for attending the mixed-sex party, where there was music and dancing.

    http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches...ns-afghanistan
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    Since 1979 the west have been involved one way or the other in "civilising" the Afghans. It hasn't worked.
    Its a nation of bandits hence suited to guerrilla warfare.

    The quicker the west gets out the longer our sons will live for a real purpose. Not for stone age bandits.

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    Afghanistan executes eight prisoners: officials

    Afghanistan executed eight prisoners on death row Tuesday with more executions expected soon, officials said, marking a rare use of the death penalty in the war-wracked country.

    The eight had been convicted of crimes including murder, kidnapping and rape, deputy attorney general Rahmatullah Nazari told AFP. They were hanged in Kabul's main Pul-e-Charkhi prison, he said.

    President Hamid Karzai has approved the execution of a total of 16 people after their death sentences were confirmed by three courts, presidential spokesman Aimal Faizi said.

    "They were involved in rape of women and children before killing them, murder and also attacking and killing our security officers," he said, without elaborating.

    Executions have been infrequent since the fall of the Taliban Islamist regime in 2001, which put people to death for adultery and other infringements of Islamic law.

    Karzai, who has the final say over whether executions ordered by Afghan courts will be carried out, is on record as saying he is reluctant to sign death warrants.

    Afghanistan's justice system remains weak and compromised, and relies heavily on confessions, including some obtained through torture, rights groups have said.

    The executions came just days after a military court rejected an appeal by an Afghan soldier sentenced to death for killing five French troops in an insider attack in January, but it is not known whether he will be in the next group to be hanged.

    So-called green-on-blue attacks have spiralled this year, with a total of 61 NATO troops killed by members of the Afghan security forces, fuelling distrust between the allies in the war against Taliban Islamist insurgents.

    The French casualties prompted France to withdraw combat forces from Afghanistan earlier than planned.

    http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsCont...officials.aspx
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    Afghanistan hangs 'terrorists'

    Afghanistan on Wednesday executed six "criminals and terrorists", an official said, a day after eight other death row prisoners were hanged in rare mass executions in the war-wracked country.

    The Taliban, which is leading an insurgency against the Western-backed government, had warned there would be reprisals if any of their militants were executed.

    President Hamid Karzai approved the executions of the six who were sentenced to death "on charges of terror, conducting attacks, explosions and organising suicide attacks", a government spokesman said in a statement.

    The Taliban, who are fighting Karzai's government and 100 000 NATO troops, said if what they called "prisoners of war" were executed there would be "heavy repercussions" for government officials.

    It urged the United Nations, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, the Red Cross and international rights groups to prevent the executions.

    The Taliban, ousted from power by a US-led invasion in 2001, were notorious for executing people in public for "crimes" including adultery. The executions were often carried out at half-time during games in the main football stadium in Kabul.

    The European Union and international rights groups condemned Afghanistan's execution of the first eight prisoners - described as murderers, kidnappers and rapists - and urged Kabul to drop plans to hang any more.

    "The Afghan government should end its sudden surge of executions and institute a moratorium on further executions," Human Rights Watch said.

    "The weakness of the Afghan legal system and the routine failure of courts to meet international fair trial standards make Afghanistan's use of the death penalty especially troubling," it said.

    Amnesty International said "the sheer number of people who could be killed by the state is a particularly shocking use of what is the ultimate cruel and inhuman form of punishment".

    The EU mission in Afghanistan called on the government to commute all death sentences and to reintroduce a moratorium on executions as a first step towards abolishing capital punishment.

    The government's emailed statement attached pictures of the men who were hanged and a description of the crimes for which they were convicted.

    Three of the men were found guilty of organising suicide attacks in Kabul that killed eight people, two for murdering two Afghan UN employees and one for killing three provincial education officials and eight border police.

    The Kabul attacks included the deaths of two foreigners and a young Afghan girl in Kabul's famed Chicken Street, a popular shopping area for expatriates, the statement said.

    It was not immediately clear when the attacks took place or how long the men had been on death row.

    Executions have been infrequent since the fall of the Taliban Islamist regime in 2001, but have several times involved multiple deaths.

    Since 2001 there had been four sets of executions.

    One man, Abdullah Shah, was executed in 2004 for murder, 15 were killed by firing squad in October 2007 and seven in 2008. Last year, two Taliban militants were executed for an attack on a bank that left 38 people dead.

    Amnesty International said some 200 prisoners are reportedly on death row in Afghanistan.

    A military court on Monday rejected an appeal by an Afghan soldier sentenced to death for killing five French troops in an insider attack in January - the first such conviction for a so-called 'green-on-blue' attack, but he was not among those executed.

    The foreign ministry in France, which does not use the death penalty, said at the time said it "took note" of the sentence, adding its thoughts were with the soldiers who were killed and their families.

    http://news.iafrica.com/worldnews/828701.html
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    That leaves two more upcoming hangings...

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    Afghan 'revenge' attack kills three, wounds 90

    A suicide car bomber killed three people and wounded dozens near a NATO-run training base on Friday, in an attack claimed by the Taliban as revenge for the execution of its militants.

    Several NATO soldiers were lightly wounded, a spokesman for the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said, without giving further details.

    A police spokesman said the blast was near "a joint coordination office" for the Afghan army, police and NATO troops in Maidan Shar, the capital of Wardak province, some 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Kabul.

    "From this centre they go for military operations," Abdul Wali told AFP.

    The base is close to the provincial governor's office and two of his bodyguards were among the dead, his spokesman Shahidullah Shahid told AFP.

    "We have three killed -- two bodyguards of the governor and a 10-year-old girl. Ninety people were wounded, 75 men, 11 women and four children."

    Taliban insurgents claimed responsibility for the blast, saying it was to avenge the execution on Wednesday of four Taliban members on death row in Kabul.

    "It was a car bomb by our mujahed on a military training centre," Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told AFP.

    "It was a revenge attack by our mujahed in response to the execution of four mujahedeen by the Kabul administration."

    The four executed Taliban members were among a total of 14 prisoners hanged over two days this week in rare mass executions.

    The Taliban, who are leading an insurgency against the Western-backed government and 100,000 NATO troops, had warned there would be "heavy repercussions" for government officials if any of their militants were executed.

    President Hamid Karzai approved the executions of the men who were sentenced to death "on charges of terror, conducting attacks, explosions and organising suicide attacks", the government said.

    The executions were condemned by the European Union, the United Nations and human rights groups, with many pointing out that Afghanistan's justice system is notoriously weak.

    The Taliban described the hanged men as "prisoners of war" and had called on the UN and rights groups to prevent their deaths.

    The Islamists, ousted from power by a US-led invasion in 2001, were notorious for executing people in public for "crimes" including adultery. The killings were often carried out at half-time during games in the main football stadium in Kabul.

    Suicide attacks are a Taliban trademark.

    On Wednesday, a suicide bomber on foot blew himself up near a NATO base in Kabul's heavily-fortified diplomatic district, killing two Afghan security guards and wounding two government officials.

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    Afghan TV Shows Video of Apparent Execution of Afghan Soldier

    Mohammad Jan’s killers did not even do him the decency of looking him in the eye.

    In a distressing video aired on national television stations here on Thursday night, the Afghan National Army soldier first has his army identity card stuck in his mouth and is then ordered to say his name out loud, but can only mumble unintelligibly because of the card.

    The scene cuts and one of the killers stands behind him and shoots him in the head with a pistol, five times. Another man stands off to the side, out of his victim’s view, and fires three bursts from his AK-47 rifle into his torso, which convulses at each round.

    It was yet another example of a terrible truth, one that has been a commonplace for so long that it is seldom commented upon: insurgents in Afghanistan rarely take any prisoners.

    While the Afghan government and the American military are holding thousands of Taliban prisoners, there is no evidence that the Taliban are holding any, other than a lone American, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, whom they have been trying to exchange for high-level Taliban prisoners. Asked about this, a spokesman for the Taliban, Zabiullah Mujahid, insisted that the insurgents follow Islamic law in the treatment of prisoners and do not summarily execute them. He maintained that the insurgents had “many” prisoners, but declined to say how many, or where they were being held. The only case he could cite was that of Sergeant Bergdahl, who was captured in eastern Paktika Province on June 30, 2009.

    “We do not kill prisoners, we try our best to keep them alive as long as we can,” Mr. Mujahid said, in an interview by cellphone from an undisclosed location. He confirmed, however, that the Taliban do not allow the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit their prisoners; he said it would be unsafe for them to do so. The I.C.R.C. does routinely visit prisoners held by the Afghan government and by American forces.

    “For instance, we have an American we have kept alive for years, Bergdahl,” he added.

    So what about Mohammad Jan and his apparent execution?

    “We are going to investigate this case. Was it really an execution, or just a propaganda operation?” Mr. Mujahid said. “We will inform the news media.”

    Far more persuasive than the video, however, is the Afghan National Army’s tally of its soldiers listed as missing: zero.

    “They don’t keep prisoners alive, so we don’t have any missing soldiers, we don’t think,” said Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi, the spokesman for the Defense Ministry. He said the Afghan military has not yet determined whether the video of the execution was genuine, but in any case, “I call this a crime against humanity and a war crime.”

    Mr. Mujahid also maintained that in some cases the insurgents had released Afghan government prisoners on receiving assurances from elders or family members that the prisoner would not return to the fight. One example is Maulavi Shafiullah Nuristani, now a prominent member of the government’s High Peace Council, who was captured by the Taliban when trying to visit a Taliban commander in Kunar Province to discuss a peace deal. “For a month, I was thinking of death every moment,” Mr. Nuristani said. “They were cursing me, beating me and telling me that I have been helping invaders and the puppet government.” He was finally released because of the intercession of powerful tribal relatives in the area.

    The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission also condemned the video, and the Taliban’s practice of summary executions. “This sort of execution without trial, it’s against international humanitarian law, against human rights law, against all Islamic values to protect war prisoners,” said Mohammad Farid Hamidi, a commissioner.

    “Unfortunately, in many cases like this they capture people from the road and then they kill them,” he said.

    The Taliban have, however, been quick to protest on those relatively rare occasions when the government has executed Taliban prisoners. One of those took place last month, when six Taliban prisoners were hanged, along with another eight criminals.

    The Taliban prisoners had been convicted of assassinations of public figures and participation in suicide bombing plots. While Human Rights Watch criticized the executions, it did so on the grounds that the death penalty is always wrong, and that Afghanistan’s justice system is so poor that the convictions could not be trusted — rather than because they were prisoners of war, according to the group’s Afghanistan representative, Heather Barr.

    When plans for the Taliban executions were announced, the Taliban released a statement the day before calling for them to be stopped. “Since executing war prisoners is an action contradicting every civil law, therefore the Islamic Emirate is gravely disturbed and regarding it urges the United Nations, Islamic Conference, International Red Cross and every other international human right organization to prevent this action,” the statement said.

    However imperfect their trials, the Taliban prisoners did at least get them.

    Mr. Mujahid maintained that the insurgents would only kill prisoners after a proper trial under Shariah law, and then only if they had committed an actual crime other than simply belonging to the other side. But there is little evidence such trials actually take place.

    When Taliban insurgents stopped a bus in the Ahmadkhel district of eastern Paktia Province last August, they found three Afghan National Army soldiers on leave onboard, and took them away. Their bodies were found the next day, shot to death.

    Based on a hadith, or saying of the Prophet Muhammad, Islamic law is pretty much in concord with current international standards, said Mr. Hamidi, the commissioner. “You must respect the person, feed him from your own food, clothe him from your own clothing, and they have the same rights you have.”

    That will have been little solace to a soldier named Mohammad Jan.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/29/wo...n-tv.html?_r=0
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    Hopefully one of y'all can find that video!
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