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Message: <blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 993340" data-attributes="member: 1246">Via <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/9387477/Nato-prepared-to-hunt-Taliban-fighters-who-executed-woman-for-adultery.html" target="_blank">Telegraph</a>:Nato troops were prepared to join a manhunt for the Taliban fighters who publicly executed a young woman for adultery in an incident that has drawn worldwide condemnation. Footage of the execution of 22-year-old Najiba showed men cheering as she was shot several times in the back and head. The incident in the Shinwari area of Parwan province recalled similar public executions which were commonplace during the Taliban’s government of the 1990s. General John Allen, commander of American and Nato forces, said: “Let’s be clear, this wasn’t justice, this was murder, and an atrocity of unspeakable cruelty. “The Taliban’s continued brutality toward innocent civilians, particularly women, must be condemned in the strongest terms.” He added that his troops were “ready to assist the Afghan security forces in tracking down and holding accountable the perpetrators of this heinous act”. In the mobile phone footage, a man is seen reading verses from the Koran condemning adultery, before saying: “We cannot forgive her, God tells us to finish her. Juma Khan, her husband, has the right to kill her.” As the young woman squats, huddled in a burka facing away from the camera, a man walks up behind her to within a few feet and opens fire with his assault rifle. The first two shots miss her, but on the third she collapses and he continues to fire into her motionless body. A crowd of around 100, looking on from a hill, cheer her death, shouting “Long live Islam”, “Long live Mujahideen (holy warriors)”. </blockquote>

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