Taliban blow up 'spies'

Taliban militants strapped bombs to two men they accused of spying for the United States, blowing them up at a public execution, security officials said Friday. The Taliban frequently kidnap and kill tribesmen in tribal belt shadowing the Afghan border, but traditionally slit their throats or shoot them. Locals said it was the first such killing with bombs.
The incident took place in the Degan area of North Waziristan, a district that has attracted increasing US attention as a nexus of al Qaeda-linked and Taliban militants, following a failed bomb plot in New York.