At the Qala-I-Gulai battlefield outside Kabul, at least...

At the Qala-I-Gulai battlefield outside Kabul, at least half of 30 dead fighters that the International Committee of the Red Cross found had been shot in the head, officials close to the investigation of the deaths said.
The dead came into Afghanistan from places like Pakistan and Arab nations to fight for the Taliban, the officials said. The Northern Alliance, which took this area from the Taliban last week, particularly loathes those foreign volunteers.
Four of the dead appeared to have been executed, with one shot between the eyes and one apparently shot in the side of the head. At least one other had been decapitated.The full extent of the killings across Afghanistan will not be known for weeks. Pierre-Andre Junod, a Red Cross official in Kabul, said roughly 70 bodies had been found in the Kabul and Bagram areas.
How many of the deaths were due to execution and how many may have been caused by battlefield injuries may never be known. Mr. Junod said the Red Cross, to maintain neutrality, would not detail the nature of the killings. He said the organization was collecting the bodies for humanitarian reasons.
During the Northern Alliance attack on Qala-I-Gulai, the execution of one prisoner was witnessed by journalists, and the bodies of three men shot in the head were also discovered. One body appeared to have been pulled from a ditch onto a roadside and set on fire.
Northern Alliance soldiers denied shooting any prisoners and said a rocket was responsible for the decapitation of the Taliban soldier. Officials familiar with the investigation cautioned that the Taliban soldiers could have been shot in the head by passing soldiers after they were dead. But one official said executions might have happened in revenge.