- PESHAWAR -- While the US
military is busy investigating media reports that its troops put bodies
of two Taliban on fire in Kandahar province in October, there are now fresh
allegations that American soldiers burnt alive two more Taliban fighters
in Zabul.
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- The second incident reportedly took place around a week
ago in Kharnay village in Khak-i-Afghan district of Zabul province. Details
are becoming available now that villagers from the area have reached Kandahar
and the Pakistani border town of Chaman in Balochistan province.
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- Haji Abdul Aziz, who belongs to Khak-i-Afghan district,
told The News that a number of villagers witnessed the burning alive of
Taliban fighters Mohibullah and Sibghatullah. He said the two men were
unarmed when the US Army and Afghan National Army soldiers caught them
in Kharnay village. He said the Americans sprinkled petrol on the two men
and torched them before shocked onlookers. He said the soldiers kept sayng
that anyone fighting them would meet the same fate.
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- According to Haji Abdul Aziz, one Mulla Abdul Salam from
the same village was tortured by burning different parts of his body. He
said Abdul Salam was alive but his condition was bad. He said Abdul Salam
was now undergoing treatment in Chaman.
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- This is the first time that allegations of such a serious
nature have been made against the US military, which is already under fire
for prisoners, abuse in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and Iraq,s Abu Ghraib
jail. The existence of CIA-run secret prisons in several countries including
Afghanistan has also put the US government and its intelligence in the
dock.
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- http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2005-daily/10-11-2005/main/main17.htm
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