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Taliban Are Filmed Killing Pakistani Lovers

Film captured on cell phone in mountain village

By Mary Papenfuss, Newser Staff

Posted Apr 26, 2009 7:54 AM CDT

(Newser) – Taliban enforcers in Pakistan have been filmed in a chilling video shooting down two lovers charged with committing adultery, reports the BBC. The man and woman are seen talking to members of the Taliban, and then move away as they appear to sense the danger they're in. Both are shot several times, then shot again when the gunmen see they are still moving. The cell-phone video, which has stunned Pakistanis, was shot by a reporter in a village controlled by the Taliban.

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Image from a cell phone video by a reporter showing Taliban in Pakistan shooting down a man and woman believed to be having an adulterous affair. (1redthread)

Pakistani Taliban leave Buner on Friday and head back to a stronghold as part of a peace negotiation with the government. (AP Photo/Naveed Ali)

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riffran

Apr 27, 2009 11:39 AM CDT

Yall forgot Ghengis Kahn, Alexander the great, the Aztecs, Toltecs, and other different "civilizations" in the distant past.........but this is today...it wasn't right then, it isn't right now.....

Mad

Apr 26, 2009 7:24 AM CDT

To Annie: You GO Girl, always using reality to slam your points home! --- To TC: I was going to say the exact same thing. Today;s Taliban remind me greatly of Christains of 1000 years ago. The only thing different is the cell phone

AnnieChrist

Apr 26, 2009 5:54 AM CDT

In 'civilized' societies such as ours, we have people like gonzales, bybee and yoo to render opinions calling thes tactics 'enhanced interriogation techniques.' I'm sure the taliban's justice department has the same type of 'legal experts.'

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Taliban Are Filmed Killing Pakistani Lovers