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| Ansar al-Sunnah threatens to kill Turkish hostage |
| 2004-12-09 |
| Al-Qaeda linked militant group Ansar Al-Sunna threatened in an Internet video shown on Wednesday that it would soon kill a Turkish hostage it said was working for a company under contract to US forces in Iraq. "The entrepreneur Fattah Narjess, who came into Iraqi territory across the border (from Turkey)... aided by Massoud Barzani's clique, will be executed by the army of Ansar Al-Sunna," it said in a statement on an Islamist website accompanying the video. Barzani is one of the main Kurdish leaders in Iraq and head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. The tape featured a young man showing his passport and other official documents with a banner bearing the name of the group in the background. Ansar al-Sunna, which presents itself as an alliance of several Islamist jihad groups, has claimed several attacks in Iraq. Scores of Turks, mostly truck drivers, have been kidnapped in Iraq, but most have been released. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |