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Accused by the Taleban of spying, they were killed to deter locals from mixing with Nato forces SHOT and hanged from the branch of a fruit tree, the mother and her teenage son were summarily tried, sentenced and executed for no bigger a crime than delivering clean laundry to a relative. The fate of the 45-year-old woman and her 13-year-old son on Monday shocked even war-hardened locals in southern Afghanistan, where people are killed daily in the raging battle between the Taleban and the Nato-backed Government. “These two people had been to visit a relative in the town of Musa...