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AFGHANISTAN: SIX MORE DEATH-ROW PRISONERS EXECUTED
November 21, 2012: Afghanistan executed six “criminals and terrorists", an official said, a day after eight other death row prisoners were hanged.
The Taliban, which is leading an insurgency against the Western-backed government, has warned there would be reprisals if any of their militants were executed.
President Hamid Karzai approved the executions of the six who were sentenced to death “on charges of terror, conducting attacks, explosions and organising suicide attacks", a government spokesman said in a statement.
The Taliban, who are fighting Karzai’s government and 100,000 NATO troops, said if what they called “prisoners of war” were executed there would be “heavy repercussions” for government officials. (Sources: AFP, 21/11/2012)
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