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The Taliban beheaded 17 people, including two women, for attending a mixed-gender party where there was music and dancing, Afghan officials reported today. The decapitated bodies were abandoned at a roadside in southern Afghanistan, according to Mullah Sharafuddin, the governor of Kajaki district in Helmand province. All 17 bodies, including those of two women, were decapitated, but it was not clear if they had been shot first.

The use of the death penalty to implement the Sharia, Islamic law, continues to increase year by year: in 2010 there were at least 714 executions, against 658 in 2009 and around 585 in the previous year, in 13 countries with a Muslim majority, many of which ordered by religious tribunals. ... The Sharia has been applied through hanging, decapitation and execution by firing squad. In Iran, Nigeria and Pakistan people have been sentenced to death by stoning, but there are no reports of actual executions by this method, though stoning is used without regular trials in Somalia, Afghanistan and...

BRAMPTON, Ont. (CP) - One of the suspects in a Toronto terror plot is accused of wanting to behead Canada's prime minister, his lawyer said Tuesday. Lawyer Gary Batasar says the allegations against his client are very serious and include his personal threat against the prime minister. Steven Chand is also accused of plotting to storm and bomb various buildings, he says. Chand is among 17 people accused of plotting to stage a massive terrorist attack in southern Ontario. Fifteen of the 17 people facing charges are in court today. Family members who arrived to support them were met by...

During the discussion of the 'amnesty' announcement it was announced the 4 diplomats from Russia had been executed. Now posted as breaking banner on CNN.com headline.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1133908/posts The Beheading of an Innocent FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 5/12/04 | Walid PharesThe slaughtering of Nick Berg is one small step for terrorists and a major leap for the West’s encounter with Jihadism. The videotape, posted on the Ansar web site, was one of many horrifying acts perpetrated by the followers of Osama bin Laden. It ended up becoming a shameful benchmark in the West’s liberal media reporting.     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1133894/posts Islamic website shows beheading of American (U.S. Media says Abu Ghraib more important)WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Wednesday, May 12, 2004     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1133906/posts Images of an Execution (WARNING Graphic Images)FrontPageMagazine.com...

An elderly Buddhist man has been beheaded and two other Buddhist men shot dead by suspected Islamic insurgents in separate attacks in Thailand's southern provinces, police said today. The grisly death of 66-year-old Song Fangpetch, whose headless body was found early this morning in Pattani province's Mayo district, brings to 15 the number of people decapitated in 21 months of unrest. Song was attacked while taking his cattle to a field in nearby Panare district and a note left on his body, police said. "He was slashed with a sharp knife probably at 6:00 am and people found his body...

Italian intelligence officials who secured the release of two hostages in Iraq are working with their British counterparts to try to free Kenneth Bigley, the captive Briton. They believe that Sunni Muslim insurgents who kidnapped Simona Pari and Simona Torretta, the aid workers freed last week, have links with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of Tawhid wal Jihad, the group holding Mr Bigley. The engineer, 62, was captured 16 days ago with two American colleagues, who have been beheaded. An Italian diplomat said: "Italy's intelligence is working very closely with Britain's to lend every assistance to free the hostage. It has...

Kidnappers beheaded British hostage Kenneth Bigley after twice releasing videos in which he wept and pleaded with Prime Minister Tony Blair for his life. A U.S. official said Friday there was credible information that Bigley had tried to escape with the aid of one of his captors. The attempt failed and Bigley was killed a short time later as was shown on a video of his beheading, the Washington official said on condition of anonymity. There was no word on the fate of his captor. A Western official in Baghdad refused to talk about the escape attempt report. The 62-year-old...

"We have executed the death penalty of God", states the terror group. (Dagbladet.no:) Wednesday, the Swedish security analyst was to travel to the Iraqi town Baijo from the capital Baghdad. He did not get that far. His convoy was attacked by the terrorist organisation Ansar al-Sunna, and the Swedish man was captured along with a British collegue. - We have implemented the punishment of God, the terrorists writes on their homepage - We in Ansar al-Sunna has succeded, with the help of God, to take the heads of the enemy crusaders". They also promise that pictures of the beheadings will...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq (news - web sites)'s military said on Wednesday it had found houses in northern Falluja where hostages had been held and killed by their militant kidnappers, and records of those abducted. "We have found hostage slaughterhouses in Falluja that were used by these people and the black clothing that they used to wear to identify themselves," newly appointed provincial military governor Major-General Abdul-Qader Jassim said. Jassim, briefing reporters at the main U.S. military base outside the city that thousands of U.S. and Iraqi troops are fighting to wrest from rebel control, said "hundreds" of CDs and...

If killing enemies is a precept of Islam, then "live-broadcast decapitations" are the result of a "radical leap" in fundamentalism. According to Professor Francesco Zannini, an expert on Islam, this type of killing finds justification nowhere in the Koran nor in any traditional maxim. The choice to decapitate and use telecommunications is a way "to bring the West to its knees...By cutting off a person's head, [fundamentalists] inflict, thanks to mass media, mass destruction by striking the psychology and the fear of the Western world". Professor Zannini, who teaches at the Pontifical Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies in Rome...

BELGRADE -- Monday – Serbia’s prime minister has called on the international community to react to a photo published in a Belgrade newspaper today showing a group of people dressed in uniforms of the outlawed Kosovo Liberation Army holding a number of severed heads. Zoran Zivkovic used the continuation of a no confidence debate in his government today to appeal to the United Nations mission in Kosovo, the multinational peacekeeping force and the international community as a whole to identify the people in the photo in Vecernje Novosti, arrest and convict them. “We kept being told in The Hague [war...