SOMALIA'S SHEBAB EXECUTES TWO GIRLS FOR 'SPYING'

Somalia's Al-Qaeda-inspired Shebab group publicly executed two teenage girls by firing squad in front of hundreds of local residents in the central town of Beledweyne on charges of spying, witnesses said. "These women were arrested last week... and confessed” Sheikh Yusuf Ali Ugas, the insurgent group's regional commander, told the crowd after the execution. The two were believed to be 17 or 18 years old.