Two beheaded in Pakistan as US 'spies'

Militants decapitated an Islamic cleric and an Afghan refugee in north-western Pakistan on suspicion of spying for US and Afghan authorities, an intelligence official said today.

The men's beheaded bodies were found early today in two villages near Miran Shah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan, the official said on condition of anonymity because of the secretive nature of his work.

Notes written in the locally spoken Pashtu language were left on the bodies that accused the men of being spies for US and Afghan authorities, he said.