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Taliban Hangs 7-Year-Old Boy in Grisly Warning

As thousands of American troops pour into southern Afghanistan, insurgents have launched a vicious offensive against the Afghans supporting the surge. In the last day a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a wedding hosted by an anti-Taliban tribal leader, and insurgents publicly hanged someone who they labeled a spy for local troops. The Afghan accused of spying was a 7-year-old boy. He was hanged from a tree in front of a crowd in Helmand's Sangin district, where more than a thousand...Full Story
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