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September 24, 2000
KABUL (AP) - Two men convicted of planting bombs in the capital were hanged Saturday in front of a Kabul hotel, with several hundred people watching. The men, Meya Gul and Amir Sardar, both in their 30s, were arrested a week ago as they were attempting to plant explosives at the Kabul airport, said Maulana Dadallah, a senior commander with the ruling Taliban. During interrogation, the men confessed to being members of the opposition fighting the Taliban, and said they were responsible for several recent bomb blasts in the capital, Dadallah said. A crowd looked on as the men, their faces covered with white cloth, were hanged in an open space in front of the Ariana Hotel in central Kabul. The Taliban, who practice a rigid style of Islamic law, have conducted public executions since coming to power four years ago. |
