A purported Taliban spokesman said the hard-line militia on Saturday shot and killed two German hostages because Germany's government didn't announce that its troops would leave Afghanistan. Qari Yousuf Ahmadi said the Germans were shot to death. They had been kidnapped on Thursday, along with five Afghan colleagues, in the southern province of Wardak while working on a dam project. «The German and Afghan governments didn't meet our conditions, they didn't pull out their troops,» Ahmadi told The Associated Press by telephone from an undisclosed location. Ahmadi offered no proof for the claim of the killings. He said the Taliban would give further information about the two bodies later.
