Somalia’s hardline Islamist rebels beheaded seven people on Friday for being “Christians” and “spies” in the latest implementation of strict sharia law by the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab movement, witnesses said. Though al Shabaab has carried out such punishments before in regions it controls, the beheadings on Friday were thought to be their largest number of executions at one time, Somalis said. http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5691VU20090710