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Somali Militant Group Executes Girls Accused of Spying

   VOA News 28 October 2010

   Somalia's  al-Qaida linked al-Shabab militants have executed two girls
   accused of spying for the Somali government.
   A  firing  squad killed the two teenagers in the town of Beledweyne on
   Wednesday while several hundred people watched.
   An  al-Shabab  judge  says the two were arrested last week and charged
   with spying for Somali forces.
   The  Islamic  militant  group  has  been trying to turn Somalia into a
   strict  Islamic  state.  The group has imposed a harshly conservative
   form of sharia, or Islamic law, in the areas it rules.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.

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