1.   Pashtuns say they are being punished because the deposed Taliban, the hardline militia that was removed by the U.S.-led coalition last year, were ethnic Pashtuns.

2.   Pashtun tribal leaders in key areas of the south were reportedly in open revolt against the hardline Islamic militia.

3.   Pashtun tribal leaders in key areas of the south were said to be in open revolt against the hardline Islamic militia.

4.   Although executions are common under the rule of the hardline Taliban Islamic militia, it was a rare instance that the corpse was put on such public display.

5.   Any visit to the front lines north of Kabul reveals the hardline Islamic militia is alive and kicking.

6.   But the hardline Muslim militia that rules Afghanistan has refused to budge.

7.   French President Jacques Chirac on Friday praised the fall of the last Taliban stronghold of Kandahar and said there can be no amnesty for the hardline Islamic militia.

8.   He is the highest-ranking Taliban official known to have been captured so far and was considered a relative moderate within the hardline Islamic militia.

9.   In Afghanistan, next door to Pakistan, bin Laden has been given refuge by the hardline Taliban militia.

10.   Kandahar is the last city under control of the hardline militia that once ruled most of Afghanistan.