January 22, 2005

Al Qaeda in Iraq Releases Beheading Video (Images)

alqaeda1.jpgAbu Musab al-Zarqawi's al Qaedi in Iraq terrorist organization has released a video of the beheading murders of two Iraqi civilians. The victims identify themselves in the video as Ali Hussein Jassem Mohammad al-Zubaidi and Ahmad Alwan Hussein al-Mahmadawi. Graphic Images from the video are posted below.

The video begins with the taped 'confession' of the two victims who admit to the 'crime' of being truck drivers for a Lebanese firm servicing a US base in Ramadi. After the taped 'confession' the two are taking outside where they are slowly beheaded with a knife. The beheading appears to take place on a sidewalk in broad daylight.
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News.com.au puts the story this way:

THE group of al-Qaeda frontman Abu Musab al-Zarqawi posted a video on the Internet today showing the beheading of two Iraqis after they "confessed" to working at a US base in the country.

The men identified themselves as Ali Hussein Jassem Mohammad al-Zubaidi and Ahmad Alwan Hussein al-Mahmadawi, both residents of Sadr City, a teeming Shiite slum in Baghdad...

After making their "confessions" in front of a banner carrying the name of Zarqawi's al-Qaeda Group of Jihad in the Land of Two Rivers, the video showed each man having his head cut off.

The severed heads were held aloft by the men's slaughterers and put on their backs to shouts of Allahu Akbar, or God is greatest.

The grisly footage of the beheading, in which about four men appeared to be involved, was followed by a chilling written warning from the group that "anyone who helps the occupying enemy in any way" would meet the same fate.

UPDATE: Fellow blogger Interested Participant was already on the case, unknown to me, as well as Hyscience.

UPDATE: This comes on the heels of a slew of murders. Note that the two stories below are DIFFERENT MURDERS.

Army of Ansar al-Sunnah (linked to al Qaeda in Iraq) murders two.

Terrorists behead Iraqi policeman in broad daylight--Others ITB, Diggers Realm, OTB, JQuinton, Hyscience, Command Post, Daily Dish, Decision 08


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