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| Al-Qaeda-linked group claims killing of two Iraqi Kurds: website |
| 2004-11-21 |
| DUBAI, Nov 20 (AFP) An Islamist group linked to the Al-Qaeda network said it has killed two Iraqi Kurds it accused of being spies, in a website statement Saturday that showed pictures of the pair's identity cards. "Your mujahedeen brothers of the Ansar Al-Sunna Army captured two members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (and) having interrogated them continuously for seven days, they confessed to being spies working for a special network whose job it is to monitor mujahedeen movements in Mosul," the statement said. US-led forces have been chasing down insurgents in the Kurdish city of Mosul since rebels over-ran police stations there more than a week ago. The statement was accompanied by photos of two blindfolded men holding their identity cards and kneeling in front of a banner of the Army of Ansar al-Sunna. "The two spies supplied the information they obtained to their American masters who then carried out raids on mujahedeen houses to arrest them." "After interrogation, they were shot," it continued, adding that the group would "work relentlessly toward the physical liquidation of the network's other members". Ansar Al-Sunna, which presents itself as an alliance of several Islamist groups, has claimed several attacks in Iraq, including an attack on Iraqi Kurdistan that killed over 100 people in February and the killing of 12 Nepalese hostages in August. |
| Posted by:Mark Espinola |