Manhunt for Taliban Executioners

President Hamid Karzai has ordered the arrest of Taliban members who publicly executed a woman for adultery in Afghanistan. The video of the brutal execution, which surfaced last week, shows a burqa-clad woman crouching on the ground as she’s shot nine times in front of a cheering mob. Afghan officials say a manhunt is underway for the Taliban executioners, who are believed to have been fighting over the woman they executed for adultery. The incident has raised international outrage and concern over what the 2014 withdrawal of NATO troops in Afghanistan will mean for women in the country. The United States issued a statement condemning the killing “in the strongest possible terms,” calling it a “cold-blooded murder.”