Source: SMH
The Iraqi branch of al-Qaeda has put a video on the internet showing the mutilated bodies of two US soldiers kidnapped in June and executed to “avenge” a young Iraqi woman raped near Mahmudiyah south of Baghdad.
“Here is a film on the remains of the bodies of the two American soldiers kidnapped near Yussufiyah (south of Baghdad). We are showing it to avenge our sister who was raped by a soldier belonging to the same division as these two soldiers,” said a preamble by the Mujahideen Al-Shura Council, an al-Qaeda dominated alliance of armed Sunni groups in Iraq.
When guerillas learned of the rape, “they repressed their sighs to avoid news of the affair spreading but they swore to avenge their sister,” the council said on its usual website today.
“Praise God, they captured two soldiers from the same division as this vile crusader. Here are the remains … to rejoice the hearts of the faithful,” the statement said.
The nearly five minute film shows the horribly mutilated bodies of the two soldiers, who had had their throats cut. The head of one was held high by an armed man, like a trophy. The head of the other was being stamped on by another armed man.
The film is accompanied by extracts of old speeches by the head of the al-Qaeda terror group, Osama bin Laden, and the ex-head of its Iraqi wing Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, who was killed on June 7 in a US strike.
The Iraqi branch of al-Qaeda announced on June 20 it had executed the two American soldiers, whose bodies were found south of Baghdad.
AFP
