Taliban fighters in Afghanistan murdered and beheaded 17 people over the weekend, reportedly for throwing a party with music, dancing, and mingling of men and women. The bodies of 15 men and two women were found in Helmand province on Monday, in an area that even the provincial governor admits is under the control of the Taliban. The Taliban outlawed most music and socializing between unmarried men and when the ruled the country in the late 1990s.
Elsewhere, the "green on blue" attacks continue to plague NATO and American forces as two more soldiers, possibly Americans, were shot dead by an Afghan fighter they were working with in Laghman province. That would bring the number of deaths of foreign troops at the hands of "friendly" Afghan soldiers to 42 this year, arguably making the government troops they work alongside the most dangerous part of serving in Afghanistan these days. NATO soldiers are now told to be armed at all times, even in their own base, as the task of training and handing power to local troops is becoming compromised by enemies infiltrating their ranks. Also on Monday, an Afghan army in the same province as the beheadings was overrun by Taliban fighters who were apparently aided by soldiers already inside the base.
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