Seven shot dead in pre-election Taliban attack, official hanged

[maddezmom]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) - Taliban militants have shot dead seven Afghan civilians after finding a registration document for Sunday's elections in their car, a provincial governor said.

The attack on Tuesday in the central province of Uruzgan is the latest in a wave of violence ahead of the parliamentary and provincial council polls which has left more than 1,000 people dead this year.

Governor Jan Mohammad Khan told AFP that the rebels stopped a vehicle with seven people inside in Gizab district.

"They searched everybody, and found an official document, a car registration for election day, on one of them. Then the Taliban killed the seven people," Khan said.

more;http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050914/wl_asia_afp/afghanistanattackstalibanvote;_

[ladylibertee]

1. We are definitely living in the last days

[HKTech]

2. After seeing the movie Osama...

About the girl growing up in Taliban controled Afghanistan, I came to a momement of pure enlightenment - Arm all the women to the teeth. An islamofascist tries to give a woman sh*t, the last thing the motherf*cker would see is a burst of gunpowder flowing out from under a burka.

This is insane. The one place in the world where everybody is willing to help us succeed and * is f*cking it up.

[acmavm]

3. Afganistan is lost. It was lost when we pulled troops and resources and

went in after Iraqi oil. All we can say we control is probably one square block in Kabul. Screw the liars and all their propaganda.

[Missy M]

4. Sometimes I think some in the Taliban enjoy the act of killing people....

more than for any ideological reason. They are a bunch of thugs, nothing more.