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Taliban: Key Afghan Opposition Leader Executed
Friday, October 26, 2001
(9:49 AM ET) (13:49 GMT)
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In a recent interview with CNN's Rebecca MacKinnon, Haq said he was not interested in fighting the Taliban, but he was trying to build a political coalition to bring down the regime.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- CNN
A Taliban Foreign Ministry spokesman in Peshawar, Pakistan, said Friday that the Taliban executed key opposition leader Abdul Haq in Kabul.

The official said Haq, a former mujahedeen commander who was reportedly on a peace mission in Afghanistan when he was arrested, had two satellite phones and lots of U.S. currency on him when he was arrested.

According to an independent, non-Taliban source in Pakistan, the Taliban convicted Haq and two associates of spying for the United States, after a brief trial Friday afternoon. After their sentences were read, all three were executed.

The Taliban have warned that anyone showing support for the former king could face death. Haq's brother, Hajid bin Mohammad, told reporters Friday that his brother "had no arms and he was not prepared for any battle" when he and the six or seven others he was traveling with were "attacked by the Taliban without any provocation." A source said one of Haq's business associates also was arrested.
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When they said he was arrested, I was thinking there might be a trial of some sort.

Silly me,
Dan