TALIBAN - Hangs "American Spy"

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Thursday November 29, 01:01 PM

"Taliban hang alleged spy in Kandahar"

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The Taliban hanged an Afghan in Kandahar after he was found with a satellite telephone and accused of spying for the United States, according to the Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press (AIP).

AIP reported on Thursday that a witness arriving at the Pakistani border said the man had been hanged on Wednesday night in a city square.

The witness was quoted as saying the Taliban told the crowd the man was a spy who had been giving information to the United States and directing their bombing.

The witness was also quoted as saying that Kandahar and surrounding areas were heavily bombed on Wednesday, with 15 people killed in three villages near Kandahar airport.

AIP said more bombs targeted the city on Thursday.

Kandahar, birthplace of the Taliban movement and home of its supreme leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, is the last major city still under the control of the fundamentalist militia.

-- Anonymous, November 29, 2001


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