Taliban hangs man for spying
18/01/2008 17:45  - (SA)  

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Kandahar - Taliban militants hanged a man from an electricity pole in southern Afghanistan after accusing him of spying for US troops and the Afghan government, a district chief said on Friday.

A man who identified himself as a Taliban commander confirmed the murder in Musa Qala district, which Afghan and international soldiers took from the rebels in December after it had been in rebel control for 10 months.

Musa Qala district chief Haji Abdul Salaam said the man who was hanged was an ordinary civilian.

"He had nothing to do with the government or anyone. The Taliban have hanged him for spying," said Salaam, a former Taliban member who has joined the government.

Taliban militants have hanged, beheaded and killed scores of people they have accused of spying for foreign forces and Afghan government, including elderly women and children.

The ultra-Islamic fighters were forced from government in late 2001 in a US-led invasion of the country that drove the Taliban into mountain hideouts and the semi-autonomous tribal areas of Pakistan.

 

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