Murder, torture, and rape via Islamic sharia law and Reuters only says you're an "austere" group. Rape isn't even mentioned until til later in the article. "Two Taliban commanders were sexually involved with the woman in Parwan, either through rape or romantically, and decided to torture her and then kill her to settle a dispute between the two of them."
7/7/12, "Taliban publicly execute woman near Kabul: officials," Reuters,
"A man Afghan officials say is a member of the Taliban shot dead a woman accused of adultery in front of a crowd near Kabul, a video obtained by Reuters showed, a sign that the austere Islamist group dictates law even near the Afghan capital.
In the three-minute video, a turban-clad man approaches a woman kneeling in the dirt and shoots her five times at close range with an automatic rifle, to cheers of jubilation from the 150 or so men watching in a village in Parwan province.
"Allah warns us not to get close to adultery because it's the wrong way," another man says as the shooter gets closer to the woman. "It is the order of Allah that she be executed".
Provincial Governor Basir Salangi said the video, obtained on Saturday, was shot a week ago in the village of Qimchok in Shinwari district, about an hour's drive from Kabul.
Such rare public punishment was a painful reminder to Afghan authorities of the Taliban's 1996-2001 period in power, and it raised concern about the treatment of Afghan women 11 years into the NATO-led war against Taliban insurgents.
"When I saw this video, I closed my eyes ... The woman was not guilty; the Taliban are guilty," Salangi told Reuters.
When the unnamed woman, most of her body tightly wrapped in a shawl, fell sideways after being shot several times in the head, the spectators chanted: "Long live the Afghan mujahideen! (Islamist fighters)", a name the Taliban use for themselves.
The Taliban could not be reached for comment.
Despite the presence of over 130,000 foreign troops and 300,000 Afghan soldiers and police, the Taliban have managed to resurge beyond their traditional bastions of the south and east, extending their reach into once more peaceful areas like Parwan....
Violence against women has increased sharply in the past year, according to Afghanistan's independent human rights commission. Activists say there is waning interest in women's rights on the part of President Hamid Karzai's government.
"After 10 years (of foreign intervention), and only a few kilometres from Kabul... how could this happen in front of all these people?" female lawmaker Fawzia Koofi said of the public execution in Parwan.
"This is happening under a government that claims to have made so much progress in women's rights, claims to have changed women's lives, and this is unacceptable. It is a huge step backwards," said Koofi, a campaigner for girls' education who wants to run in the 2014 presidential election.
Salangi said two Taliban commanders were sexually involved with the woman in Parwan, either through rape or romantically, and decided to torture her and then kill her to settle a dispute between the two of them.
"They are outlaws, murderers, and like savages they killed the woman," he said, adding that the Taliban exerted considerable sway in his province.
Earlier this week a 30-year-old woman and two of her children were beheaded in eastern Afghanistan by a man police said was her divorced husband, the latest of a string of so-called "honour killings".
Some Afghans still refer to Taliban courts for settling disputes, viewing government bodies as corrupt or unreliable. The courts use sharia (Islamic law), which prescribes punishments such as stonings and executions." via Atlas Shrugs, video of murder/execution per sharia law for being a victim of rape, alleged adultery, or whatever, as crowd cheers.
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Ed. note: There has been no US 'war' with Afghanistan this past decade, it's been a war to kill America. $6 billion a month is diverted from US taxpayers to a recognized mafia run country, one of the most corrupt in the world. The goal has been to drain the American economy, punish US taxpayers. To which taxpayers cheer, USA! USA! US taxpayer billions have enriched the Taliban. Everyone knows this:
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10/13/10, "Afghan firms "pay off Taliban with foreign [American] cash," Reuters
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9/25/11, "Government by crime syndicate," LA Times, Op-ed, Sarah Chayes,"In Afghanistan and elsewhere, rampant corruption threatens security and the rule of law."
"Afghanistan is controlled by a structured, mafiaesque system, in which money flows upward via purchase of office, kickbacks or "sweets" in return for permission to extract resources (of which more varieties exist in impoverished Afghanistan than one might think)."...
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9/27/2009, "Insurgents play a perilous mountain game," TheAge.com, (Australia), by Paul McGeough and David Brill
"Deals in which the Taliban top up their coffers by demanding as much as 30 per cent of the value of a contract as protection money are rife.
As project manager for the US contractor Louis Berger Group, Mr Yahn is aware of the Taliban pressure on his local contractors - their staff get kidnapped and their vehicles burnt, they are harassed and threatened, and many of their workers fear for their lives....
The Taliban rules insist on maximum local employment and, among other things, that
It is easy to be shocked by all this. But Mr Yahn says he has seen it all before - in another place, at another time. "You do construction work in New York City and you'll find the same thing, just different labels - there, the factions are politicians, the Mafia and labour unions. In New York, Boston, on the Baltimore docks, there's a lot of this stuff at work," he says.
"They're not all bad," he says of the Taliban, drawing a parallel with the
"They have their beliefs and maybe they don't want to send their children to school, but if they're not disrupting my project, they are moderate Talibs.""...
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7/25/11, "U.S. trucking funds end up in Taliban hands," Reuters
"Cash from part of a $2.16 billion U.S. transportation contract in Afghanistan has ended up in the hands of Taliban insurgents, the Pentagon said on Monday."...
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8/16/10, "Taliban 'kill adulterous Afghan couple'," BBC
"A spokesman for Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Waheed Omar, said if the incident (stoning to death) was confirmed it would be condemned in the strongest terms by the government.
- "Even in Islam this [stoning] has to be done
- through proper judicial systems," he said....
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10/26/10: "US slips to historic low in global corruption index," Reuters
"Somalia was judged the most corrupt country, followed by Myanmar and
Afghanistan at joint second-worst and then by Iraq, in the Berlin-based watchdog TI's annual corruption perceptions index (CPI)."
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