Taliban Executes Afghan women accusing them for prostitution

The Taliban says, they have executed two women in Ghazni in central Afghanistan, accusing them of working as prostitutes on a US base.

A spokesman for Ghazni's Governor said, the women dressed in blue 'Burqas', were shot and killed late Saturday (July 12, 2008) just outside Ghazni city in Afghanistan. Taliban fighters have told Associated Press Television News, the two were executed for allegedly running a prostitution ring, catering to US soldiers and other foreign contractors at a US base in Ghazni city.

An Associated Press crew in the vicinity of the killing said, they heard gunshots and filmed the entire episode from some distance in the dark. The dead bodies of the women were filmed a day later on Sunday (July 13).

First Lieutenant Nathan Perry, a US military spokesman, says he has never heard of allegations "anything close to that nature."

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