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| Militant Group Says It Kills 3 Turk Hostages in Iraq |
| 2004-09-02 |
| A militant group calling itself Tawhid and Jihad has killed three Turks it was holding hostage in Iraq, Al Jazeera television reported Thursday. The Arabic television channel said it had received a video from the group showing the hostages being killed. But it only aired a brief segment showing the men clutching their passports and sitting on the floor in front of three masked gunmen, one of whom was reading a statement. The gunmen were standing in front of a black banner which looked similar but not identical to the flag of Jama'at al-Tawhid and Jihad, which is headed by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Iraqi police earlier said they had found the bodies of two Turkish truck drivers on the side of a road north of Baghdad. The body of an unidentified man, possibly also Turkish, was found next to them. |
| Posted by:Steve |