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Old 07-11-2009, 07:56   #10
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The headline suggests the seven were killed for apostasy. No more information about the religious motivation for the killings is given in the story.

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Islamist insurgents behead 7 Somalis for 'spying on government and abandoning Islam'
Islamist fighters beheaded seven Somalis accused of renouncing their Muslim faith and spying for the government.

Published: 12:03AM BST 11 Jul 2009

The public killings in the southwestern town of Baidoa followed weeks of fierce fighting as the Islamists try to seize Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.

The beheadings were the largest mass execution since the Islamists were pushed from power two and a half years ago, but they follow many individual executions, amputations and stonings...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ing-Islam.html
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