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Video Shows Beheading of 3 Iraq Hostages
A videotape posted by on a Web site Saturday showed the beheading of three hostages said to be members of an Iraqi Kurdish party, slain for cooperating with American forces, according to their Islamic militant captors. A statement with the video was signed by the Ansar al-Sunna Army, which in August released footage showing 12 Nepalese hostages being killed. The statement identified the hostages as three truck drivers who belong to the Kurdistan Democratic Party, captured in a roadblock near Taji, 15 miles north of Baghdad, as they were transporting military vehicles to an American base in Taji. The video shows three young men showing their identity cards. Seconds later, each has his throat slit. A man is seen cutting off each hostage's head. The heads are then seen placed on the backs of the victims. The "renegade military men, affiliated with the traitor Kurdistan Democratic Party" were beheaded, and their bodies were left on the road to Mosul "for them to be an example to others, and for us to revenge our women, children and elderly who die daily from American raids," the statement said.The Ansar al-Sunna Army has been accused in a number of attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces as well as on Kurds - including Feb. 1 bombings against Kurdhish political offices in the northern city of Irbil that killed 109 people. On Aug. 31, the group killed 12 Nepalese workers, releasing a video showing one of the hostages being beheaded and the remaining ones shot with an assault rifle. In the statement Saturday, Ansar al-Sunna Army said it has targeted Iraqi Kurdish parties because they have "sworn allegiance to the crusaders and fought and are still fighting Islam and its people." It accused them of protecting American forces in Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, as well as near the Taji military base just north of the capital, and elsewhere. The statment also accused the leaders of Iraq's two main Kurdish parties, Massoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani of being servants of Israel. Posted by: tipper 2004-09-19 |
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