KABUL 197 Afghanistan's ruling Taleban regime Saturday publicly hanged two men convicted of being involved in a series of recent bomb blasts in the Afghan capital, AFP quoted officials and witnesses as saying.
Taleban officials said the two men from Kabul Province confessed to their involvement in the attacks and were convicted by a military court.
The pair, handcuffed and blindfolded, were hanged from two military cranes at the capital's Ariana roundabout close to the presidential palace after approval of the sentences by the religious militia's supreme leader Mulla Mohammad Omar, they said.
A senior Taleban military commander Dadullah told reporters the executed men were in the service of opposition military commander Ahmad Shah Masood.
"Anybody involved in the bomb blasts would be punished like this," he said, before the two bearded men, apparently in their early 30s, were lifted by the cranes as hundreds of shocked Kabul citizens watched.