http://paktribune.com/news/print.php?id=152075 Taliban militants hang woman, son in southern Afghanistan, official says KABUL: - 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. The 70-year-old woman and her 30-year-old son were killed Monday in the village of Daigh, about five miles north of Musa Qala in the southern province of Helmand, said Amir Mohammad Akhunzada, the province's deputy governor. Akhunzada did not identify the two but said the woman's son-in-law worked for the police. After the slaying, the militants threatened to kill anyone working for the government, he said. ''This hanging is totally against Islam,'' Akhunzada said. ''They use the name of Islam to go against Islam. ''The Taliban have stepped up attacks in southern Afghanistan this year. More than 900 people have died in violence since May, mostly militants killed in fighting with security forces. The violence, the deadliest since the Taliban regime's ouster in late 2001, has underscored the weak grip of the government of U.S.-backed President Hamid Karzai, particularly in the volatile south and east of the counury. Also in Musa Qala, British troops in a NATO-led security force accidentally shot and killed an armed Afghan policeman wearing civilian clothes after mistaking him for an insurgent outside a base on Tuesday, the British Ministry of Defense said.
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