The Taliban tracked down and killed 4 Afghan counterterrorism agents, in one case pulling out all their fingernails, report says

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Looks like Americans to me.

• Taliban death squads are hunting down Afghan counterterrorism agents, The Sunday Times reported.

• Four victims, trained by US and UK forces, worked for the National Directorate of Security.

• the Taliban's rule in Afghanistan has been characterized by violence.

"Elite Taliban death squads have tracked down and killed at least four Afghan counterterrorism agents since August 22, The Sunday Times reported.

"The men were members of two units working out of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) and had been trained by British and US forces, the newspaper said.

"A brother of one of those killed told The Sunday Times the Taliban came for his brother at their home outside Kabul in August.

" 'My brother was shot three times in the head and once in the chest and I was shot twice in the left shoulder and arm," the man said, per the newspaper. "I don't know how I survived.' ". . .