Alle som går inn for forhandlinger med Taliban eller tilbaketrekning fra Afghanistan bør overveie hvilken skjebne de utleverer afghanerne til. Et 30-tall menn blir tatt av en sivil buss, og halshugget. Slektningene blir underrettet om deres skjebne. Den er helt bevisst: Terror.

The attack follows a pattern of intimidation and brutality that Taliban insurgents have pursued, spreading terror in an attempt to undermine support for the Afghan government.

A Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, confirmed that the group was responsible for the killings and said that 27 passengers were taken from a bus three days ago and killed after appearing before a Taliban court.

«We discovered solid proof and documents that they were with Afghan National Army, and also we had solid information that they were going to Lashkar Gah to help the army,» he said when contacted by telephone. He said the Taliban had called the men’s families to announce that they had been caught and would be slaughtered by cutting their throats.

Afghan officials angrily denied that the passengers were military or police and said they were all men traveling to Iran to find work. Thousands of Afghans travel every year to neighboring Iran to seek work, via the city of Herat.

Taliban behead 30 men pulled from bus