Taliban kill Afghan woman after spying charge
Posted on: Wednesday, 10 August 2005, 02:33 CDT
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban guerrillas have executed an Afghan woman after accusing her of spying for U.S.-led forces, officials said on Wednesday.
The unidentified woman was shot dead in her house on Tuesday night in the southern district of Zabul, district chief Haji Mohammad Younus said, adding Taliban fighters also kidnapped the brother and father of the victim.
Abdul Latif Hakimi, a spokesman for the Taliban, confirmed the report and said the Taliban had killed the woman because "she was a spy for the Americans."
Ousted from power by U.S.-led forces in 2001, the Taliban have executed several men in the past after accusing them of being American spies. But Tuesday's execution was the first of a woman by the hardline Islamic group.
It comes amid an increase in attacks by the Taliban, who are active in southern and eastern parts of Afghanistan where hundreds of people, including at least 38 American soldiers, have died in violence this year, the worst since Taliban's fall.
The Taliban have vowed to derail next month's parliamentary polls, drive out foreign forces from Afghanistan and topple President Hamid Karzai's government.
Source: REUTERS
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