ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />Taliban insurgents intercepted two minibuses travelling through central Afghanistan and killed at least 14 passengers overnight, officials said on Friday (July 25).<br/> <br />One survivor of the attack says armed men stopped the buses and separated the passengers into two groups before opening fire. Three women and a three-year-old child were among those killed.<br/> <br />Local officials in the remote, mountainous province of Ghor said most of the passengers were from the ethnic Hazara Shi'ite minority, but that could not be independently verified.<br/> <br />The Taliban, an austere Sunni militant group that ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, has been fighting U.S.-led and Afghan forces since they were removed after the Sept 11, 2001 attacks on U.S. targets.<br/> <br />The Taliban, made up mainly of ethnic Pashtuns, have often targeted Shi'ites, whom they see as infidels who deserve to die.<br/> <br />Many of the Hazaras - believed to be descended from Mongol invader
