More Taliban war crimes

AP:

Taliban militants beheaded seven policemen Friday after overrunning their checkpoints in southern Afghanistan, officials said, while in a separate clash, an Australian soldier and three civilians were killed.

Six other police officers were missing after the Taliban attacked police checkpoints in Arghandab district, in Kandahar province, said Abdul Hakim Jan, a police officer.

The attack in the strategic area of Arghandab, 15 miles north of Kandahar city, came weeks after Afghan and foreign troops forced Taliban militants to relinquish control of the town, which they had briefly captured.

During Friday's attack, the militants ambushed police checkpoints set up to keep the Taliban fighters away from the town and beheaded the policemen, said Mullah Mohammad Nabi, a purported Taliban commander in the area.

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Again, the AP fails to note the Taliban violations of the Geneva Conventions and its war crimes. Why? Are the Geneva Conventions just a unilateral contract only enforcible against our side of the war? Are the AP writers just ignorant of their provisions that prohibit the kind of mutilation and murder of prisoners?

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