High School Teacher Beheaded in Afghanistan

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High School Teacher Beheaded in Afghanistan

Posted on Jan 4, 2006

NYT: Suspected Taliban insurgents dragged a high school teacher from his house on Tuesday night and beheaded him, the latest killing in southern Afghanistan in what seems to be a campaign against educated community leaders, Afghan officials said Wednesday.

The headless body of Abdul Habib, a teacher at one of the two high schools in Zabul Province, the Sheik Mathi Baba School, was found Wednesday morning. | more

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