On this day last year, Al-Qaeda’s Ansar Al-Sharia group (Partisans of Islamic Law) executed an alleged American spy in the town of Shahr, in southeast Yemen.
Al-Qaeda also released a video (titled “An American Spy in the Arabian Peninsula”) in which a man calling himself Amin Abdullah Mohammed Al-Mu’alimi denounced himself as a spy and saboteur, who had placed tracking chips that enabled the U.S. to target militants with drones.
His bullet-riddled body was found lashed to the goalposts on a dirt football pitch.
On this day..
- 1966: Leftists during the Guatemalan Civil War - 2020
- 1855: Manuel da Mota Coquiero, the Beast of Macabu - 2019
- 1943: Leen Kullman, Soviet hero - 2018
- 1731: Six malefactors at Tyburn - 2017
- 845: The 42 Martyrs of Amorium - 2016
- 1868: Joseph Eisele, honest, kind-hearted triple murderer - 2014
- 1673: The effigy of Charles Alexis dit Dessessards - 2013
- 1906: The would-be assassins of General Rafael Reyes - 2012
- 1968: Three blacks in Rhodesia, notwithstanding Queen Elizabeth II - 2011
- 1900: Ada Chard Williams, the last woman hanged at Newgate - 2010
- 1836: The defenders of the Alamo, much remembered - 2009
- 1952: Jurgen Stroop, the Warsaw Ghetto's destroyer - 2008