Barbaric Somalian Islamists publicly behead 7 for spying

September 17th, 2009 PESHAWAR - Two out of the six family members of the killed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud, who were kidnapped by the Taliban for spying on their chief, have died. Sources said Mehsud's in laws were subjected to brutal torture in custody by the Taliban.

September 13th, 2009 BEIJING - A Chinese military expert Dai Xu has accused India of "spying" on Chinese military, saying that India violated diplomatic rights by inspecting a China-bound cargo plane of UAE's Air Force, which was detained by the Indian Security agencies in Kolkata after it was found carrying huge cache of arms and ammunition on board. "The actions by Indian authorities violated diplomatic rights as the cargo on board belong to China.

September 3rd, 2009 LONDON - US President Barack Obama and his daughter Sasha have been captured on camera in what is said to be an unusual yet oddly familiar pose at the Oval Office in the White House. The picture, taken by White House photographer Peter Souza, whose brief is to document the Obama presidency, shows eight-year-old Sasha spying on her father from behind a sofa, as he looks through his papers, reports the Telegraph.

August 18th, 2009 PRAGUE - Russia has expelled two Czech Republic diplomats Tuesday, following a move by Prague to dismiss two Russian diplomats over suspicion of spying. The two countries have been at loggerheads over Czech accusations of Russian spying - mentioned in reports by the Czech BIS secret service - connected to US plans to place parts of a missile defence system in the Czech Republic.

August 9th, 2009 TEHRAN - Britain's troubled relations with Iran suffered a further setback as a British embassy official confessed to spying during a trial in Tehran, saying that Britain had provided financial assistance to Iran's reformists to weaken the hardline clerical regime during the disputed presidential elections in June this year. Hossein Rassam, a political analyst with the embassy, said the embassy had allocated a budget of 300,000 pounds to set up links with political groups, individuals and activists.

July 14th, 2009 NAIROBI/MOGADISHU - Two foreign journalists were kidnapped by armed men in the Somalian capital Mogadishu Tuesday, witnesses said. According to eyewitnesses, some armed men wearing police uniforms entered a hotel in an Islamist-rebel controlled part of the city and took two men away.

July 12th, 2009 AU soldiers help Somali forces as fighting ragesMOGADISHU, Somalia — African Union peacekeepers in the Somali capital have directly intervened for the first time to support government forces fighting Islamist insurgents, a spokesman said. A witness reported at least eight people were killed on the second day of fighting.

July 6th, 2009 PARIS - France has demanded the immediate release of a French woman academician who has been arrested in Iran on charges of spying, the French foreign ministry said late Monday. "The charge of espionage is without foundation," the ministry said in a statement.

June 26th, 2009 LONDON - In an appalling incident in the Somalian capital, Mogadishu, pro-Al Queda insurgents on Thursday used a machete to slice off a hand and a foot from each of four men accused of stealing mobile phones and guns. The men screamed in pain, as some 300 spectators were compelled to watch the slaughter by the al-Shabaab fighters.

June 15th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan government has asked the Army to carry out an all out offensive to hunt down the Tehreek-e-Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, and Mehsud tribes. Addressing a press conference, the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Governor, Awais Ghani, said that a comprehensive military operation would be launched against Mehsud for harbouring terrorists, and killing innocent people.

June 12th, 2009 BEIJING - The China Central Television (CCTV) anchor Fang Jing has been suspected of spying for Taiwan. The 38-year-old face of CCTV's prime-time military program 'Defense Watch' is being investigated for possibly spying for Taiwan.

June 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested a former US State Department employee, along with his wife, on alleged charges of spying for Cuba for nearly three decades. Walter Kendall Myers, 72, and his wife Gwendolyn Myers, 71, were accused of being dedicated and ideologically-motivated agents on behalf of Cuba.

May 29th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Swat Taliban has engaged a band of private armed terrorists and is paying them handsome amounts to target security officials in Mingora and other adjacent areas. A suspected Afghan terrorist, Ghaniur Rehman, arrested by police from Mingora's Malukabad area told media persons that he was being paid 20,000 rupees to kill a policeman.

April 18th, 2009 TEHRAN - An American-Iranian journalist has been jailed for eight years in Tehran after being accused of spying for the United States. er lawyer and family revealed that 31-year-old Roxana Saberi had been convicted and sentenced.

April 18th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - In yet another incident of Taliban's brutal ways of handing out punishments to people according to its own rules, the outlawed insurgents shot dead a man and a woman on charges of having illicit relations in Hangu district near the border of Orakzai Agency in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). According to the Dawn, the masked Taliban insurgents first killed the woman aged 45 by pumping bullets in her chest, and then opened Kalashnikov fire at her and the man.