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Taliban behead Afghan working for US forces

Taliban militants dumped the beheaded body of a man in western Afghanistan on Wednesday with a note saying that he was targeted for working with US forces.

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HERAT: Taliban militants dumped the beheaded body of a man in western Afghanistan on Wednesday with a note saying that he was targeted for working with US forces, police said.   

The body was found in western Herat province's Shindand district where more than 50 Afghan civilians were said to have been killed in days of anti-Taliban action led by the US military late April.   

The note read that "anyone working for the US forces will end up with similar fate," counter-criminal police chief for the western part of the country, Ali Khan, said.    

It was signed "Taliban mujahedin (holy fighter)," he said. Khan said he believed the Taliban group was responsible.

Attacks blamed on Taliban rebels including suicide and roadside blasts, kidnappings and beheadings have spread from southern and eastern Afghanistan this year into other areas including Herat, which borders Iran.   

The insurgents particularly target Afghan and foreign soldiers, and Afghan civilians working for the government or foreign forces here to assist the fragile government of President Hamid Karzai.   

They have previously admitted carrying out beheadings on men they accuse of spying, saying the killings are meant to instill fear in people.   

Investigations by the UN and Afghan government in the days after the fighting in Shindand last month found around 50 civilians, including women and children, were killed.

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