April 08, 2007

Translator Beheaded by Taliban

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Sad news out of Afghanistan: Adjmal Nakshbandi, the translator for Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo, who was abducted last month in Helmand province, has been beheaded by his Taliban captors.

The Taliban said it killed Adjmal because the Afghan government refused to release any more prisoners in exchange for his freedom. President Hamid Karzai was criticized after freeing 5 Taliban terrorists in order to win Mastrogiacomo's release.

Shohaabuddin Atal, a spokesman for Taleban commander Mullah Dadullah, said: "We killed Ajmal today because the government did not respond to our demands."

During the abduction, the Taliban murdered Mastrogiacomo's driver, Sayad Agha, accusing him of spying for the British forces in southern Afghanistan.

The Taliban currently hold at least 10 other captives: 5 government medical workers, as well as 2 French aid workers and their 3 Afghan assistants.

H/t George

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