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| Zarqawi group executes men in public |
| 2005-01-24 |
| SUPPORTERS of Iraq's most wanted man, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, have executed an Egyptian and two Iraqi drivers on a street in broad daylight, according to videos shown on a website. A first grisly video showed a man identified as Ibrahim Mohammed Ismail, born in 1966, on his knees, handcuffed and blindfolded on a street before a masked man shot him in the head. Mr Ismail was shown earlier saying he worked for a Kuwaiti company identified as Al-Shallahi, which provides US forces with drinking water, and urging his compatriots not to come to Iraq or work for the Americans. "Despite all the warnings from the mujahedeen ... these apostates continue to help the occupier shed the blood of those who refuse to submit," the militants, identifying themselves as members of al-Zarqawi's Al-Qaeda Group in the Land of Two Rivers, said in a statement after the execution. A second video showed the execution of two Iraqis. The first was identified as Ali Hussein Jassim Mohammed al-Zubeidi, a resident of Sadr City, a Shiite district of Baghdad, who worked for a Lebanese company which supplies American troops in Ramadi. The second Iraqi was named as Ahmad Alwan Hussein al-Mahmudawi, a colleague with the same company. The pair said they were paid $US150 ($195) a month, compared with average public sector monthly salaries of between $5 and $10 during the final decade of ousted president Saddam Hussein's rule under international sanctions. "We advise those working for the Americans to stop doing so. Don't come to Ramadi, the city of the mujahedeen, otherwise you will be killed," the two men could be heard saying. They were then taken to a road, probably in the Sunni Muslim stronghold of Ramadi, blindfolded with their hands tied behind their backs, and beheaded in public. Al-Zarqawi, a Sunni extremist who has a $US25 million bounty on his head, called in an audiotape attributed to him on Sunday for an all-out war on the January 30 elections set to be won by members of Iraq's Shiite majority. In the audiotape, the voice said the polls were a "wicked trap aimed at putting the Rafidha (a derogatory term for Shiites) in the seat of power. "Four million Rafidhi have been brought in from Iran to take part in the elections so that they realize their aim of taking most seats in the pagan assembly," the voice said. Also on Sunday, his group claimed in an Internet statement to have killed a leading member of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's party. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #11 heh, TW. Good point. I find it interestng that just prior to both their election and ours - there was a rumor of capture (OBL for USA, Zarqawi for Iraq), then a tape released and then.... I guess we'll have to wait and see how it plays out. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-01-24 2:05:59 PM |
| #10 What are the police and army guys paid? That's their competition, and the lines are much longer to join the good guys. Not to mention that for the IP and the ING death is possible... but not certain. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-01-24 2:00:14 PM |
| #9 plainsow - lol! it worked for the cold war! |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-01-24 11:23:58 AM |
| #8 2b, right on. We should be advertising that. Hell, pay them $195.00 a month, and a $25,000.00 life insurance policy. Make the mujahedeen compete. I'm sure we can beat them in a capitalist game. |
| Posted by: plainslow 2005-01-24 11:20:16 AM |
| #7 care to enlighten us, Old Spook? |
| Posted by: lex 2005-01-24 11:18:10 AM |
| #6 that's my guess, GK |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-01-24 11:12:47 AM |
| #5 #3 In Allawi's cellar. At least for a couple of more days. Then, surprise! Just before the Jan 30 elections he paraded out. |
| Posted by: GK 2005-01-24 10:58:06 AM |
| #4 Iran.. |
| Posted by: MacNails 2005-01-24 9:59:28 AM |
| #3 SUPPORTERS of Iraq’s most wanted man, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, oh...and speaking of which....where is Zarqawi these days?? He usually doesn't like to miss a good beheading and photo op. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-01-24 9:24:36 AM |
| #2 Beware the pagan Shite power. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-01-24 9:02:26 AM |
| #1 The pair said they were paid $US150 ($195) a month, compared with average public sector monthly salaries of between $5 and $10 during the final decade of ousted president Saddam Hussein’s rule under international sanctions. "We advise those working for the Americans to stop doing so. Don’t come to Ramadi, the city of the mujahedeen, otherwise you will be killed," the two men could be heard saying. That's good pay. Are they trying to recruit or to discourage? Either way, they are recruiting. Jeeze, some of these guys will agree to blow themselves up for a not-so-hot lump sum. Choices, choices these Iraqi's must make - take the lump sum from the Jihadi's or annunities with reduced risk from the Americans. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-01-24 8:55:45 AM |