CNN.com:
The editor of Bangladesh's first LGBT magazine, who was also a USAID worker, was one of two men hacked to death Monday evening in Dhaka, officials say.
Ansar al-Islam, the Bangladeshi division of al Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent, claimed responsibility for the killings in Bangladesh's capital. The claim was made in a statement distributed on social media.
A statement from USAID, an American government agency for poverty prevention, identified the slain editor as Xulhaz Mannan. "Today, USAID lost one of our own," it said.
"He was the kind of person willing to fight for what he believed in, someone ready to stand up for his own rights and the rights of others," USAID Administrator Gayle Smith said in a statement.
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