Taliban behead Afghan man and woman

[Pastor Dale Morgan]

*Perilous Times

Taliban behead Afghan man and woman*

03 Nov 2007 12:35:46 GMT
Source: Reuters

GHAZNI, Afghanistan, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Afghan police have found the
beheaded bodies of two Afghan civilians in Ghazni province, southwest of
the capital Kabul, the provincial police chief said on Saturday.

Taliban insurgents have beheaded dozens of people in Afghanistan in the
last two years, accusing them of aiding the pro-Western Afghan
government and foreign forces the hardline Islamist insurgents are
battling to oust.

"We were informed by local residents that the bodies of a man and a
woman were found beheaded in the Rashidan district," said Ghazni police
chief Ali Shah Ahmadzai. "The Taliban kidnapped them from the same
district three days ago.

"The Taliban insurgents accused them of spying and providing information
about the Taliban to foreign and Afghan forces in the area," he told
Reuters.

But a Taliban spokesman denied any involvement in the killing and said
it might have been the result of tribal enmity.

"It must have been the work of the Taliban militants," said Ahmadzai.
"The Taliban kill people by beheading, no one else."

So far this year, Afghan authorities have found about 15 beheaded bodies
of Afghans in Ghazni province.

Further south, a Dutch soldier was killed by a bomb in the province of
Uruzgan, the Dutch military said on Saturday.