Sinai militant group says it beheaded four Egyptians

Reuters ^ | 8/28/2014 | MICHAEL GEORGY

[markomalley]

A Sinai-based militant group said on Thursday it had beheaded four Egyptians, accusing them of providing Israel with intelligence for an airstrike that killed three of its fighters.

Four headless corpses were found in the Sinai Peninsula earlier this month, security sources said -- the first time that any decapitations had been made public in Egypt.

The men had been abducted by gunmen two days earlier while driving in the town of Sheikh Zuwaid, which is just a few kilometers from the Gaza Strip.

In a video released on Twitter, Egypt's most dangerous militant group, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, said the four men had been spying for Israel's Mossad spy agency.

Armed men in black masks stood over the kneeling captives as one of the militants read out a statement. Minutes later, the four men had their heads cuts off.

[markomalley]

And the common element? the Religion of Pieces.

[Travis McGee]

Link to the full-text Free Republic thread.

[hal ogen]

But I thought the spokes-idiot for the US government said the “radicals” have nothing to do with religion?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks markomalley.