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| Taliban kill four 'US spies' in North Waziristan |
| 2010-03-22 |
| [Dawn] The bullet-riddled bodies of four tribesmen killed for allegedly spying for the United States were found Sunday in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region, witnesses and officials said. Officials said the four were kidnapped by the Taliban about ten days ago. Gul Akber Khan, who lives in the village of Srakhula, just outside of Mir Ali in North Waziristan, said he heard gunshots in the middle of the night. When he went to the mosque for morning prayers a few hours later, he found the bodies dumped along the road into Miramshah, the main city in the tribal region. Intelligence officials said a note was found by one of the corpses. It warned, in Pashto: ''Spies are spies, and they will come to the same fate as these men. ... Do not spy for America.'' The tribal regions along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, strongholds for al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters, have seen bloody fighting and regular attacks by American drone aircraft as the Pakistani and US governments try to defeat the militants. |
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