Video shows Afghan woman being executed for adultery

The public execution of a woman for adultery in what was once a peaceful region of Afghanistan raises questions about the power and influence of the Taliban.

By Hamid Shalizi and Amie Ferris-Rotman,?Reuters / July 8, 2012

Afghan women talk to a carpet vendor in his shop in Kabul July 8.

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A man Afghan officials say is a member of the?Taliban?shot dead a woman accused of adultery in front of a crowd near?Kabul, a video obtained by Reuters showed, a sign that the austere?Islamist?group dictates law even near the Afghan capital.

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In the three-minute video, a turban-clad man approaches a woman kneeling in the dirt and shoots her five times at close range with an automatic rifle, to cheers of jubilation from the 150 or so men watching in a village in?Parwan?province.

"Allah warns us not to get close to adultery because it's the wrong way," another man says as the shooter gets closer to the woman. "It is the order of Allah that she be executed."

Provincial Governor?Basir Salangi?said the video, obtained on Saturday, was shot a week ago in the village of?Qimchok?in?Shinwari?district, about an hour's drive from?Kabul.

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