Some 40 were killed in a suicide attack on a wedding party in Nagahan village in Arghandab district of Afghanistan's Kandahar province, June 9. The groom and 17 of the guests were members of an anti-Taliban arbeki, or self-defense militia, organized by US Special Operations forces. Official say the aim of the attack was to be to undermine support for the group. (NYT [2], Bloomberg [3], June 10)
Meanwhile, officials said Taliban militants executed a seven-year-old boy, accusing him of spying for the government, in the Sangin district of Helmand province. A provincial government spokesman said militants have carried out similar killings of those accused of spying. Three years ago, a 70-year-old woman and a child in the Musa Qala district of the province were executed following the same allegations, the spokesman said. (CNN [4], June 10)
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