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Iraq group shows tape of beheading 3 Kurds
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-09-20 09:25
An Iraqi Islamist group said on Sunday it killed three members of the
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), which cooperates with the Iraqi government,
and posted a video tape on its Web site of the apparent beheadings.
The tape from the Army of Ansar al-Sunna appeared to show the heads of three
young men being severed and placed on top of their bodies. The three men were
shown introducing themselves as KDP members and showing their identification
papers.
Three members of the Kurdistan
Democratic Party (KDP) are shown in a combination video image released
September 19, 2004 moments before they were apparently
beheaded.[Reuters] |
The militant group
said in a statement the bodies of the three "agents" were left near Mosul to
serve as an "example."
"The puppet Kurdish groups...have pledged allegiance to the crusaders and
continue to fight Islam and its people," said the statement signed by the group
and dated Sunday.
The group said it had ambushed the three men near Taji, a town just north of
the Iraqi capital Baghdad, as they were moving military vehicles to a base in
northern Iraq.
A Kurdish political source said the three men were ordinary Kurds who had
been abducted when their car broke down.
The source said the men shown on the tape were believed to be those whose
decapitated bodies were found Wednesday dumped in bags by a roadside north of
Baghdad.
The KDP is one of two main Kurdish groups represented in Iraq's interim
government. Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari is a top KDP
member.
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