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Fallujah Hostage Slaughterhouse Find
HOSTAGE slaughterhouses have been discovered in the heart of Fallujah by coalition troops, the Iraqi government said last night. Westerners are believed to have been held in them before being beheaded by followers of terror chief Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. And yesterday three members of Iraqi interim prime minister Ayad Allawi's own family were abducted at gunpoint from their Baghdad home. Iraqi commandos found CDs and records of people who have been kidnapped and beheaded in the murder centres, an Iraqi official confirmed. Major General Abdul Qader Mohammed Jassem Mohan said: "We have found hostage slaughterhouses in Fallujah that were used by these people and the black clothing they used to wear to identify themselves, hundreds of CDs and records with names of hostages." It is not known if the records reveal the whereabouts of kidnapped British aid worker Margaret Hassan.The killing houses were located in the northern part of Fallujah, where US officials believe the hard-core fighters have been holed up. Premier Allawi's 75 year-old cousin, Ghazi Allawi, his cousin's wife and his cousin's daughter-in law have been threatened with death unless the Fallujah attack is abandoned. The previously unknown extremist group Ansar al-Jihad group claimed responsibility on an Islamic website, saying: "If the agent government doesn't respond to our demands within 48 hours, they will be beheaded." Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-11-11 |
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