Somali Militants Execute Alleged U.S. Intelligence Agency Spy
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Somalia Islamist militant group al-Shabaab said a man accused of working with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency to kill a senior rebel commander for a $1 million reward was one of four people it executed for spying.
Omar Mohamed Kheyr was shot dead by a firing squad in the southwestern town of Bardhere yesterday after admitting to cooperating with the CIA, according to pro-al-Shabaab Radio Andalus. Kheyr was intercepted before collecting the cash reward, Radio Andalus reported, without identifying the al-Shabaab target. The authenticity of the report can’t be independently verified. An e-mailed request for comment sent to the U.S. Embassy in Kenya today wasn’t immediately answered.