More Taliban Barbarism
Charles Johnson
Mon Oct 1, 2007 at 10:11 am PDT • Views: 242
Afghan Teenager With US Dollars Hanged.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Taliban militants hanged a teenager in southern Afghanistan because he had U.S. money in his pocket, and they stuffed five $1 bills in his mouth as a warning to others not to use dollars, police said Monday. Taliban militants elsewhere killed eight police.
The 15-year-old boy was hanged from a tree on Sunday in Helmand, the most violent province in the country and the world’s No. 1 poppy- growing region.
“The Taliban warned villagers that they would face the same punishment if they were caught with dollars,” said Wali Mohammad, the district police chief in Sangin.
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