Al-Qaeda’s barbarity touches new low

SANAA: Al-Qaeda’s Yemeni branch has killed two men accused of spying for the United States and hung their bodies off a bridge.
They were accused of planting tracking chips in vehicles and clothes used by Al-Qaeda leaders, allowing drones to target them, a local official in southeastern Mukalla said.
Witnesses say Al-Qaeda gunmen in the city read out charges before shooting the two men, one of whom was accused of guiding the US drone that killed commander Nasr Al-Ansi and a media specialist known as Muhannad Ghalab in April.
Images posted on social media showed armed militants on a beach carrying banners surrounding two blindfolded men kneeling on the sand.
"They executed two Saudis, named Al-Mutairi and Al-Khaledi. They put the two men on the corniche in the city of Mukalla ... they opened fire at them in front of a big group of residents," one resident, who was present on the beach, told Reuters by telephone. The men's corpses were later pictured tied to wooden planks and hung from a bridge beneath a banner.
Later on Wednesday, residents reported that a suspected US drone bombed a Mukalla hotel used by Al-Qaeda militants, killing six people.