7 Suspects Confess to Beheading 3 Girls
From Times Wire Reports
Seven suspected Islamic terrorists have confessed to beheading three Christian schoolgirls on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, police said.
The Oct. 29 slayings took place in the town of Poso.
Two of the suspects said they had ties to Noordin Mohammed Top, a Malaysian seen as a key figure in the Jemaah Islamiah terrorism group, police said.
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