RoP Beheads High School Teacher
Charles Johnson
Thu Jan 5, 2006 at 8:22 am PST • Views: 173
High School Teacher Beheaded in Afghanistan.
KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 4 - Suspected Taliban insurgents dragged a high school teacher from his house on Tuesday night and beheaded him, the latest killing in southern Afghanistan in what seems to be a campaign against educated community leaders, Afghan officials said Wednesday.
The headless body of Abdul Habib, a teacher at one of the two high schools in Zabul Province, the Sheik Mathi Baba School, was found Wednesday morning. Gunmen broke into his house near the provincial capital, Qalat, and killed him late Tuesday night, said a spokesman for the provincial governor, Gulab Shah Alikhel.
“It was the work of Afghanistan’s enemies,” he said, the term officials use for Taliban insurgents and other Islamic militants.
The killing follows a spate of attacks on teachers, mullahs, community elders and aid workers in recent months.
Mullah Naqibullah, a tribal elder in Kandahar Province, said in a recent interview that the campaign was aimed at undermining public trust in the Afghan government. “Killing one educated person is as effective as killing dozens of ordinary people,” he said.
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