Suspected Taliban blow up "U.S. spies" in Pakistan

[meegbear]

Source: Reuters.com

Taliban militants strapped explosives to two men accused of being U.S. spies and blew them up at a public execution in northwest Pakistan, intelligence officials and residents said on Friday. The killings took place on Thursday evening in North Waziristan, a lawless al Qaeda and Taliban sanctuary on the Afghan border where the United States has stepped up attacks with missile-firing drone aircraft, fuelling militant fears of spies.

Five masked militants paraded the hand-cuffed men before dozens of people in the Datta Kheil area and accused them of passing information to the United States on targets for its CIA-operated pilotless drone aircraft.

"They strapped explosives around their bodies and then blew them up," a Pakistani intelligence official in the region told Reuters by telephone. Militants have killed hundreds of people they suspect are spies for the United States or the Pakistani government over the past few years.

They usually decapitate or shoot the suspects. Residents said this was the first time the militants had blown up suspected spies.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64E0UB20100521

[Soylent Brice]

1. fucking crazy.

[Robb]

2. Datta Khel has been hit a few times recently

Drone strikes. Probably. If nothing else, it's making them paranoid.

[unblock]

3. gallagher only sprayed the front row with watermelons.

eeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

[Flaneur]

4. If they were really spies helping target drone attacks, they got their just reward.

But who knows? Just like who knows whether all those people we kill in drone attacks are "militants."

[Robb]

5. So now you're pro-death penalty?

Hm.

[gratuitous]

6. This is why we have to kill them

Because they ain't got no respect for human life.