| A militant Muslim group claimed Wednesday to have beheaded an Iraqi Army officer that they captured in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. The group, Ansar al-Sunnah, posted a statement and showed a video on their Web site where they decapitated a man they identified as Maj. Hussein Shanoun. It was impossible to verify the claim's authenticity. The statement called him an "apostate" and said he participated — by American orders — in attacks against insurgents in Mosul, located about 225 miles northwest of Baghdad. They claimed that he "confessed." |
