More Religion of Peace craziness in Afghanistan

AFP: Taliban, Al-Qaeda 'wanted' as scores killed in Afghanistan

The teenage boy was hanged in the southern province of Helmand, one of the strongholds of the Al-Qaeda-linked insurgents, and a US bill stuffed into his mouth, an official said.

"Taliban simply hanged him because they found a five-dollar note in his pocket," Sangin district governor Mohammad Wali told AFP.

"They said the boy was spying for foreign troops. But he was neither spying for foreign troops nor for us. He was just a kid."

The rebels also shot dead an elderly man from Sangin who had asked for government help to build a water channel, Wali said.

Also on Sunday, a man was beheaded in the eastern border province of Paktika, provincial police chief Farouq Sangari said, also blaming Taliban fighters.

Two children were killed and five wounded in the eastern province of Khost after playing a toy car that was really a bomb, provincial spokesman Wazir Padshah Mangal said.

He said authorities suspected the bomb may have been planted by insurgents because "the father of the kids is working for the government."

At least eight policemen were meanwhile killed in intense fighting with Taliban insurgents in the southern province of Ghazni that started late Sunday and continued into early Monday, provincial police chief Alishah Ahmadzai said.

In Helmand, US-led coalition troops along with Afghan forces killed more than 20 Taliban rebels in an early morning raid on a suspected rebel hideout. Two more were killed in Zabul province and seven captured, the coalition said.

In adjoining Uruzgan province, soldiers were ambushed by more than 30 insurgents Monday and repelled the attack with return fire and air strikes, killing "numerous insurgents," a coalition statement said.

Separately, two Afghans working for a Danish non-governmental organisation was kidnapped Sunday in Logar, adjoining Kabul. A Bangladishi development worker was abducted in the same area September 15.

Three Afghan drivers of trucks supplying foreign military bases were kidnapped Monday in Wardak, also near Kabul, according to officials. The Taliban claimed responsibility.

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