Posted on 04/17/2006 12:12:27 AM PDT by jmc1969
Residents of a troubled Pakistani border region found the beheaded body of a man with note saying he was an American spy and a warning others would face the same treatment, an official said on Sunday.
The body was found on Saturday in a market area in the North Waziristan region on the Afghan border, where Pakistani forces have been battling al Qaeda-linked militants.
"He was American spy and all of you will face this if you follow him," a government official who declined to be identified quoted the note as saying.
Many al Qaeda militants fled to Pakistan's semi-autonomous border region after U.S. and Afghan opposition forces ousted the Taliban from power in Afghanistan in late 2001.
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Hmmm. I wonder if he was a Canadian.
Might have been a "peacenik" and they got tired of his flowers and flute playing.
I doubt he was a spy...he was probably some poor guy who wiped himself with his right hand instead of his left one, and thus found himself at odds with Islam and was promptly dispatched by the local Islamic enforcement goon.
You forgot the "TROP Alert"!!!!
Reuters is a great quilting circle, ain't it? This article is so full of facts- that it's almost, kinda, certainly could be- JIHADI GOSSIP.
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