Afghans, Germans dispute Taliban report on hostage killings
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A purported Taliban spokesman said yesterday that the Islamic militia had killed two German hostages, a statement disputed by both Afghanistan and Germany. He also offered to trade 23 captive South Koreans for imprisoned Taliban fighters.
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The Afghan Government has said it believes that three kidnapped UN workers are in the hands of criminals and not the Taliban-linked militants who have threatened to kill them.
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Afghanistan's Taliban movement on Saturday killed two German hostages after the group's demands were ignored, a spokesman for the militant group said.
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Afghanistanâs Foreign Ministry insisted that one of the hostages had died of a heart attack and the other was still alive.
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NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop  Scheffer pledged on Tuesday to investigate civilian deaths in  Afghanistan, but contrasted NATO&#39;s record there with a Taliban  who &quot;behead people, burn schools, kill women and children.&quot;
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Italy&#39;s government doubts the reliability of a statement by an Iraqi group that said it killed two female Italian hostages, according to the humanitarian organization that employs the women.
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Suspected Taliban militants hanged a woman and her son from a tree after accusing them of spying for the government, while fighting between supporters of rival warlords in northwestern Afghanistan killed four people, officials said Wednesday.
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Eight people have been arrested after a German aid worker was shot dead in northern Afghanistan, a governor said Friday, adding it was not clear if the killers were Islamist militants or bandits.
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Kidnappers threatening to kill three  foreign U.N. workers in Afghanistan complained on Friday that  the government had yet to free 26 Taliban prisoners as part of  a deal they said it made to secure the trio's release.
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Afghan Taliban rebels have killed two German hostages after the German government did not respond to demands to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, a Taliban spokesman says.
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KABUL : A breakaway Taliban group claiming to hold three UN workers said they would be killed unless the hostages&#39; governments pull their troops out of Afghanistan and condemn its &quot;invasion.
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Asia News, KABUL - A militant group which has claimed responsibility for kidnapping three foreigners in Afghanistan says the hostages are safe.
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A Taliban spokesman said Saturday the militant group had killed a German hostage and threatened to kill a second unless the governments of Afghanistan or Germany entered negotiations.
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The US military looks into claims in a German magazine that US and Afghan troops abused a prisoner.
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KABUL -- Clutching scarves nervously around their faces, the women whispered details of Taliban atrocities taking place in their native Helmand province: A translator's body found in a sack, carved into pieces. A police officer taken hostage, blinded and garroted with wire. A woman shot and hanged...
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Gunmen ambushed two German journalists  traveling in northern Afghanistan on Saturday killing them  both, Afghan officials said.
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The U.S. military said Monday it was investigating the deaths of two Afghan civilians in U.S. custody in 2003, following a newspaper's report that Army Green Berets tortured some prisoners.