Militants behead 'US spy'
18/07/2007 20:39  - (SA)  

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Khar - Suspected Islamic militants in a restive Pakistani tribal town on Wednesday beheaded a man accused of spying for US forces across the border, officials said.

The militants dumped the body of the unidentified victim aged in his 20s in an isolated area near the northwestern town of Khar in the Bajaur tribal district, said local administration official Fazle Rabbi.

"Local villagers found the beheaded body and informed us," he said.

The militants left a note near the body which read: "Those who spy for US forces will meet this fate," the official said.

It was the second killing this week of an alleged US spy in the area, after militants on Tuesday slit the throat of a 40-year-old Afghan refugee from the neighbouring Afghan province of Kunar.

Hundreds of extremists fled into Pakistan's mountainous border areas after the ouster of the hardline Taliban regime in the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, where they found support from conservative Pakistani tribesmen.

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