Al Qaeda executes Yemeni accused of guiding U.S. drone strikes

Source: Reuters

Al Qaeda militants shot dead a man in southeastern Yemen on Thursday for allegedly giving the United States information used to carry out drone strikes against militants, witnesses and the SITE monitoring service said.

Residents said the man was found shot dead on a sandy football pitch in the town of Shahr in Hadramout province.

Pictures posted on the Internet showed his body, dressed in Yemeni traditional clothes, hanging by its arms from a bar suspended from a football goal, on which a black al Qaeda flag also hung. A crowd of onlookers stood nearby.

The man was captured a year ago and accused of working for American intelligence and helping to guide drone strikes in 2012 and 2013, notably one on December 25, 2012 that killed five Islamist militants, SITE reported.

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