Taleban guerrillas behead two

Taleban insurgents have beheaded two former Afghan government officials in the southern province of Helmand, officials said on Saturday. Local officials said the bodies were dumped on Saturday morning beside a road in Lashkargah, the provincial capital of Helmand where British troops have started deploying as part of Nato's expansion plan.
One of the dead men was Abdul Razaaq, a former pro-government militia commander for the province, they said. The interior ministry in Kabul said the beheadings were carried out by "Afghanistan's enemies", a term usually used by Afghan officials to describe Taleban and al Qaeda allies.
A Taleban commander said Taleban militants were behind the beheadings. "We beheaded them because they had committed heinous atrocities," the commander said.
4 ALBANIANS KIDNAPPED Taliban insurgents abducted four Albanian nationals on Saturday in southern Afghanistan, a spokesman for the Islamic movement said.
The four people whose identities were not immediately clear, were kidnapped at gun point in Maiwand district in the southern province of Kandahar, spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousuf said.