Beheaded "US spy" found on Pakistan border

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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 Afghanistanin late 2001.

Many of the foreign militants joined forces with ethnic Pashtun tribesmen, who inhabit both sides of the porous border, many of whom sympathize with the Taliban. The Pakistani army killed an Egyptian al Qaeda member, wanted for involvement in the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, in an air strike in North Waziristan on Wednesday.

A government spokesman identified the man as Abdul Rehman, one of the aliases used by Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah, for whom the United States had offered a $5 million reward. He was killed along with six other Islamist militants in a missile attack on their hideout, according to officials. Osama bin Laden is believed to have passed through North Waziristan during his escape from Afghanistan in late 2001.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060416/wl_nm/security_pakistan_dc_4

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1. I wonder if his name was on any of the flash disks for sale on the

Afghan street? I know some had the names of spies on them.

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2. ‘American spy’ beheaded (Pakistan-Afghanistan border)

MIRAMSHAH, April 16: 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 an 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 border region after US and Afghan opposition forces ousted the Taliban from power in Afghanistan in late 2001.

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3. How convenient.

Bombs allegedly blow up these alleged al-Qaeda dudes who have multimillion dollar rewards out on them.

No one gets to collect, almost like it was planned that way.

Has anyone ever collected one of these multimillion dollar bounties on any of these alleged al-Qaeda dudes?

If he really was a Merkan spy, I guess no one there holds them in high regards.

This may be because the Pakistanis might think they're responsible for directing the Merkan warplanes, helos, or drones to bomb their villages, effectively killing many civilians in the process.