Afghanistan: Road Workers Beheaded
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/world/asia/31briefs-behead.html
January 31, 2008
World Briefing | Asia
Afghanistan: Road Workers Beheaded
By ABDUL WAHEED WAFA [Afghanistan] [hydra] [Pakistan became the clear staging area for operations into Afghanistan during 2007] [tactics previously unseen in Afghanistan appeared—beheadings and the like—as the insurgency ramped up] [after far too many accidential noncombatants hit in early 2007, year ended with far fewer] [now another one mucks things up] [the winter lull is upon the region?] [while NATO coalition fight jihadis, Afghanis continue draconian responses to anything that challenges traditions] [return to the tactics of couple years ago] [******]
Four Afghan road construction workers were discovered beheaded in Kamdesh, [*****]in northeastern Nuristan Province, the provincial governor said. The Interior Ministry confirmed the beheadings and said the men were kidnapped last week and a ransom had been demanded. It blamed the Taliban. The army recently mounted an operation in the Kamdesh area and killed a number of Taliban fighters, including a commander, the governor said, and he suggested that the beheadings were an act of revenge. [********]
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/world/asia/31briefs-behead.html
January 31, 2008
World Briefing | Asia
Afghanistan: Road Workers Beheaded
By ABDUL WAHEED WAFA [Afghanistan] [hydra] [Pakistan became the clear staging area for operations into Afghanistan during 2007] [tactics previously unseen in Afghanistan appeared—beheadings and the like—as the insurgency ramped up] [after far too many accidential noncombatants hit in early 2007, year ended with far fewer] [now another one mucks things up] [the winter lull is upon the region?] [while NATO coalition fight jihadis, Afghanis continue draconian responses to anything that challenges traditions] [return to the tactics of couple years ago] [******]
Four Afghan road construction workers were discovered beheaded in Kamdesh, [*****]in northeastern Nuristan Province, the provincial governor said. The Interior Ministry confirmed the beheadings and said the men were kidnapped last week and a ransom had been demanded. It blamed the Taliban. The army recently mounted an operation in the Kamdesh area and killed a number of Taliban fighters, including a commander, the governor said, and he suggested that the beheadings were an act of revenge. [********]
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