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Filipino rebels behead two Jehovah's Witnesses

Patikul, Philippines - Al-Qaida-linked Muslim rebels beheaded at least two of the six Jehovah's Witnesses they kidnapped in the southern Philippines in late August.

The two men, whose heads were found by authorities in an open-air market on the island of Jolo, were abducted along with four women as the group visited homes around the southern town of Patikul.