A branch of al-Qaeda on Tuesday said it killed a U.S. government employee who was editor of an LGBT magazine and his friend in Bangladesh.

 

A branch of al-Qaeda on Tuesday said it killed a U.S. government employee who was editor of an LGBT magazine and his friend in Bangladesh.
A group of attackers stormed the home of Xulhaz Mannan, a staffer for the U.S. Agency for International Development, stabbing him and Tanay Majumder to death in the capital Dhaka on Monday.

 Mannan was a senior editor of Roopbaan, the first gay rights magazine in the country.
Ansar-al Islam, the Bangladeshi branch of al-Qaeda on the Indian subcontinent, said in a Twitter message Tuesday that it was responsible for the killings.
It said the two were targeted because they were “pioneers of practicing and promoting homosexuality in Bangladesh” and were “working day and night to promote homosexuality."