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| 2005-01-01 |
| Militants from a group led by Al Qaeda ally Abu Musab Al Zarqawi said they had killed five men and warned those who work with the US-backed government they faced the same fate. Video footage showed five men in civilian clothes lined up and shot repeatedly in the back. It was posted on the Internet on Saturday from the Al Qaeda Organisation of Holy War in Iraq. "Five men in civilian clothes were found shot dead in Ramadi, capital of Anbar province, on Monday. A note said they were policemen killed by guerrilla fighters. A US Marine was killed in action on Friday in the volatile province of al-Anbar west of Baghdad, the US military said on Saturday. It gave no further details. Iraqi security forces foiled an attempt on Saturday to fire Katyusha rockets at an oil refinery in southern Iraq, killing one attacker, the Oil Ministry said. Members of the ministry's protection unit also arrested two men among the group that had mounted rockets on a truck and approached the refinery near the city of Basra, ministry spokesman Assem Jihad said. Gunmen assassinated a leading local Iraqi government official for Diyala province northeast of Baghdad on Saturday, shooting him dead and wounding his brother near the town of Baquba, police said. Iraqi police found beheaded two bodies in western Baghdad on Saturday along with a note that said they were truck drivers killed because they were working with the US military. It was not yet known whether the two men were Iraqis or foreigners, police said. Iraq's national carrier Iraqi Airways made its first post-Saddam Hussein era flight from Baghdad to the southern port of Basra Saturday, a British military spokesperson said. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |