Posted on 08/27/2012 4:17:08 AM PDT by Moltke
Seventeen people including two women have been beheaded in a Taliban-controlled area of southern Afghanistan for taking part in a music festival.
The slaughter took place yesterday in a village in the Musa Qala district of Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan - an area said to be completely under the control of insurgents.
According to a local tribal chief the people had gathered for a celebration and were playing music and dancing and the insurgents wanted to stop the event.
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Wonder what they’d have done to anyone listening to Pussy Riot
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