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The article reports that six Taliban prisoners were executed following an order from Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai. It states that the six prisoners who were hanged at the Pol-e-Charki prison in Kabul, Afghanistan. It mentions that the prisoners have been convicted of terrorist attacks including kidnappings, assassinations, and suicide bombings.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on Friday at a supermarket in the capital frequented by foreigners. They said the strike was aimed at killing the head of the private security company Blackwater. Employees of Blackwater, now called Xe Services, were in the area at the time, but neither they nor anyone they were protecting were killed or wounded, said Harry W. Clark, an adviser to the company. Instead the attack killed at least nine other people, including five foreign women, four of them Filipinos, said Afghan and Western officials, and at least one child. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]