'U.S. spy' killed by al-Qaeda is chained to football goalposts

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Man accused of spying for the U.S. killed by al-Qaeda in Yemen
Militants said he was planting microchips to guide U.S. drones
He was shot dead and tied to a football goal as a 'warning'
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES

PUBLISHED: 05:32 EST, 6 March 2014 | UPDATED: 13:13 EST, 6 March 2014

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Al Qaeda militants have executed a Yemeni man accused of being an infiltrator and tied him to a football goal as a ‘warning’ to others, security officials say.

The unidentified man was accused of spying on al Qaeda for the U.S. and was shot dead in the town of Shahr in Yemen’s southeastern Hadhramout province.

Security officials say the man was killed on Thursday by a militant firing squad and his body was tied to the goal for public display by the militants.

Horror: The body of a man accused of spying for the U.S. is seen tied to a football goal post outside al-Shihr city in Hadhramout, Yemen

Shockign: The dead man was accused of spying and as punishment for the alleged crimes, was shot in the head by al-Qaeda militants and strung to the goal as a 'warning'

An al Qaeda flier distributed to residents said the execution was in ‘retribution’ for anyone who deals with Americans.

The flier claims the man had been placing microchips in cars and safe houses used by al Qaeda members to guide missiles fired by U.S. drones.

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Al Qaeda wields significant power in some remote areas in southern Yemen, where state authority is almost non-existent.

The area is unstable, with government forces and militant rebel groups, with al Qaeda just one, are clashing on a regular basis.

The unidentified man was accused of placing microchips in al-Qaeda members' cars and safe houses to guide missiles fired by U.S. drones

An al-Qaeda flier distributed to residents said the execution was in 'retribution' for anyone who deals with the Americans.

On Sunday, unidentified gunmen ambushed a colonel in the security forces in central Yemen, south of the capital Sanaa, killing him and wounding his guard.

In a separate incident on the same day, armed tribesmen clashed with security forces on the southern edge of Sanaa, leaving two gunmen dead and three soldiers wounded.

Yemen is the main base of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, also known as AQAP or Ansar al-Shari'a, an offshoot of al-Qaeda believed to have several hundred active members.

In 2011, CIA officials branded AQAP 'the most dangerous regional node in the global jihad'.

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Wilde Man, Paris, France, 3 hours ago

These terrorists are animals and beyond redemption. They prove it every day. Murderers.

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An Englishwoman, Newcastle UK-Tampa FL, 3 hours ago

Those 'people' and I use the term loosely, are backward vicious degenerates with black souls if they have one, how could anyone do this to another human being.

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Shin, West Mids, 3 hours ago

This is just as savage as the Americans taking people to Guantanamo Bay, caging them and torturing them physically and mentally, without trial and with little evidence.

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Charles, Bradford, 3 hours ago

Typical occidental propaganda.

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Nickola, Somehete, 3 hours ago

Thats what Americans do they make people and nations turn on each other, provocauteures

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Sam Huston, Dominion of Canada, Canada, 3 hours ago

The executioners are the guys Obama and the EU are supporting against the legitimate government of Syria?

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Jockineseuk, Poole, United Kingdom, 3 hours ago

How would we feel and what would we do if some invisible foreign power was indiscriminately killing men, women and children maybe even your wives and children with missiles from afar and you caught a spy helping them? Think hard and be truthful, would you do the same?

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jolly tall, Shrewsbury, ENGLAND, 3 hours ago

religion stinks

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Green Silver, Kim Jong Un Votes For UKIP., 3 hours ago

Disgusting, savage animals, why isn't this war over? There was a surrender in hours after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the route they are using now is just making this war a perpetual drain on resources, men and women.