Afghanistan: CNN, translator was beheaded by the Taliban

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 23 - CNN reconstructs the death of one of the Afghan translators who worked for Americans for a long time in the country and, through testimonies, tells how he was beheaded by the Taliban.

The episode in question dates back to last May, but only now are the pieces put back together, providing the American network with the opportunity to return to a theme that takes on dramatic contours for all those who remain in the country and fear, with the withdrawal of foreign forces, persecutions and revenge.

    CNN then tells the story of Sohail Pardis who, last May 12, was driving from Kabul to the nearby province of Khost to pick up his sister and then celebrate the Eid festival together, the end of Ramadan. Along the way there was also a stretch of desert along which the 32-year-old was stopped at a Taliban checkpoint. A few days earlier Pardis had confided to a friend that he had received death threats from the Albanians who had discovered that he had worked as a translator for the US military. "They told him he was an American spy, that he was an infidel, that they were going to kill him and his family," his friend and colleague Abdulhaq Ayoubi told CNN. On May 12, as he approached the checkpoint, Pardis stepped on the accelerator. He was never seen alive again.

    Villagers who witnessed the scene told the Red Crescent that the Taliban fired at his car before it stopped. They then rushed to the vehicle to find the body of Pardisdecapitated. (HANDLE).