The Taliban in Afghanistan have publicly killed a young couple

The Taliban in Afghanistan have publicly killed a young couple who they said had tried to run away to get married, officials say. They put the love birds against a wall, took out some AK-47's and opened fire!

I am in total shock. Granted these Taliban are nut jobs but now they have done the entire world a favor and very directly proven what we in the West have known all along.

They are beyond the point of fanatics....they are animals pure and simple.

The man, 21, and woman, 19, were shot at point blank range on Monday in front of a mosque in the province of Nimroz.

Nimroz is an area where the Taliban have an obviously very strong influence.

Governor Ghulam Dastageer Azad told the AFP news agency the killings followed a decree by local religious leaders and were an "insult to Islam".

Mr Azad said: "An unmarried young boy and an unmarried girl who loved each other and wanted to get married had eloped because their families would not approve the marriage."

These kids were tracked like animals after trying to get to Iran and safety.

"Three Taliban mullahs brought them to the local mosque and they passed a fatwa (religious decree) that they must be killed. They were shot and killed in front of the mosque in public," the governor said.

He said there were some reports that the families of the young couple may have links with the Taliban. The Taliban could not be immediately reached for comment.

What would they say? Praise Allah we killed two kids who were....in love!

Correspondents say that the killings took place in a remote and dangerous region, where the government has no access, can you blame them? They show up there they are most likely shot on site also.

The Taliban did rule Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001 with an iron fist of there personal view on the Islamic Sharia law, carrying out public killings and torture.

Unmarried men and women were forbidden from talking or meeting in public and women were not allowed out of their homes without a male relative. Girls were discouraged from going to school, makes sense doesn't it? If they go to school they get educated and slowly realize what nut jobs these animals truly are. Keep them ignorant eh boys.....unreal.

Extrajudicial "honour killings" have been widely carried out in Afghanistan since then by conservative families angered by a relative who has brought them shame - usually by refusing to marry a chosen partner.

The coalition needs to step up presence there. I know NATO troops are doing their best, I am sure those brave soldiers would just love to drop a bomb there and be done with it, however that would kill a lot of innocent people who are to afraid to do anything and rightly so, they live in a prison type state, where death looms at any time.

What a horrible way to live.