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To: LindyBill who wrote (87300)11/19/2004 6:40:58 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (2) of 793715
 
In the Bullpen - Zarqawi Group Beheads Two Iraqis in Mosul
By Chad Evans on Terrorism

- The Australian (via Digger’s Realm)

THE group led by al-Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said it had beheaded two Iraqi National Guards in broad daylight in Mosul, according to a statement found on an Islamist site today.

“They were both slaughtered in Mosul in front of a large group of people,'’ the statement by Al Qaeda Organisation of Holy War in Iraq said, adding it happened yesterday afternoon.

The claim, dated November 18, could not be immediately verified.

“Just when the enemies of God thought they would crush us with their tyrannical military campaign in Fallujah … the al-Qaeda organisation in Iraq slaughtered two ‘National Guards’ on Thursday afternoon,'’ the statement said, adding the men killed were at the rank of major and lieutenant.

A clear change in format for the beheadings, most likely to spread fear in Mosul as well as make more of a political statement that Mosul is in the hands of terrorists as they claimed the other day. Digger believes the beheadings were done in public because they no longer have the safe houses in Fallujah. This is partially true, however I would point to the fact that these terrorists could have just as easily secured a safe house in Mosul through contacts or simply kicking out the residents
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