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Nickdfresh
01-02-2005, 10:12 AM
al-Qaida Video Shows Police Execution
Saturday, January 1, 2005 11:30 PM EST
The Associated Press
By DUSAN STOJANOVIC

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Al-Qaida's arm in Iraq released a video Saturday showing its militants lining up five captured Iraqi security officers and executing them in the street, the latest move in a campaign to intimidate Iraqis and target those who collaborate with U.S.-led forces.

Also Saturday, a U.S. soldier belonging to the Task Force Baghdad was killed and another was wounded in a roadside explosion north of the capital, the military said. No other details were given.

In a surprise visit to northern Iraq, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage met Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani to discuss this month's crucial elections, Kurdish officials said.

Ethnic Kurds, who make up about 20 percent of Iraq's 26 million people, are eager to take part in the Jan. 30 vote for a national assembly so that they can play a large role in the drafting of a new constitution and carve out broad autonomy in the future Iraq. The United States has sought a unified Iraq and does not want the Kurds pushing for independence _ something that Iraq's neighbor Turkey, with a large Kurdish population of its own _ would reject.

A statement posted on an Islamist Web site along with the video denounced the five security officers as "American dogs" and warns other Iraqis they would meet the same fate if they join the security forces. In the video, the five men are seen lined up, their hands bound behind their backs, and shot in the back on a street in front of passers-by.

Insurgents have carried out a string of attacks focusing on Iraqi armed forces in recent weeks, aiming to wreck security ahead of the elections.

Guerrillas have proven increasingly adept at managing the Internet as part of their propaganda campaign against the United States and its ally, the government of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, posting technically proficient footage of attacks on convoys and military bases, as well as executions of members of the Iraqi security forces or government officials.

The U.S. military and the interim government in Baghdad want the Iraqi police and National Guards to provide security for the election, and mass desertions from those forces could scuttle such plans.

The video and statement _ issued by al-Qaida in Iraq, the group led by Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi _ did not say where the executions took place, but separate photos of the executions indicated they occurred in the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, on Dec. 26.

In the footage, one of the prisoners identified himself as Lt. Bashar Latif Jassim and said his mission was to "prevent terrorists from entering Iraq."

When asked by one his captors _ who did not appear on camera _ who the terrorists are, Jassim said: "Those who sabotage the country."

The five prisoners, wearing civilian clothes, were shown sitting on the ground with five masked gunmen behind them, one reading a statement. A banner emblazoned "al-Qaida in Iraq" hung in the background.

"Here is another bunch of apostates in the land of Iraq, another group of the doomed soldiers who came to the blessed jihad land of Ramadi to support the apostate Allawi government and help the unjust American enemy," said the man reading the statement.

"As usual, jihadists have no mercy when it comes to such infidel souls," he said.

The video then showed the execution. After the men fell to the ground, the gunmen kicked them to see who was still alive, then pumped more bullets into the bodies.

People and cars are visible in the video, passing by during the shooting, and some even stop to watch. One of the masked shooters left a paper, apparently a statement, on the back of one of the bodies.

In a separate statement posted on the Web on Saturday, al-Zarqawi's group also claimed responsibility for a number of attacks targeting security forces around Iraq earlier in the week. In one of the bloodiest days in recent months, militants killed some 20 policemen on Tuesday in attacks in various Iraqi provinces.

The group also said it was behind an attack on American post in Samarra the same day. The U.S. military had said three militants were killed in that operation, but al-Qaida claimed that two were only injured. The statement said al-Qaida in Iraq was behind the attacks, which it said were part of a larger operation called "Killing the Mercenary Dogs."

In the southern province of Najaf, security forces captured 11 people who had allegedly crossed illegally crossing into the country from Saudi Arabia, police Lt. Bahaa al-Jazaeri said. The men, three of whom were Saudi citizens, were carrying explosives and advanced telecommunications equipment, he said.

Meanwhile in Baqouba, 30 miles northeast of Baghdad, gunmen killed the head of the city council, Nawfal Abdul-Hussein al-Shammari, said Abdullah al-Jbouri, governor of Diyala province, of which Baqoubah is the capital.

Elsewhere, a roadside bomb struck an Iraqi National Guards patrol south of Mahmoudiya, a town about 25 miles south of Baghdad, killing a guardsman and wounding six others.

In Baghdad's western neighborhood of Adl, police found two beheaded bodies on a main street Saturday, witnesses said. Police said they couldn't identify the victims.


From AP (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ?SITE=TNMOR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT)

Car Bomb Kills 19 Iraqi Guardsmen

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC
Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb north of Baghdad on Sunday, killing 19 Iraqis - all but one of them National Guardsmen - in another strike against Iraqis cooperating with American forces, the U.S. military said. Four Iraqi policemen were killed in a separate attack further north.

The car bomb blast near Balad, 50 miles north of Baghdad, also wounded six guardsmen, U.S. military spokesman Maj. Neal E. O'Brien said. The bomb detonated as their bus passed close to a U.S. base.

An Iraqi civilian - the bus driver - was among the 19 killed while the other casualties were members of Iraq's 203rd National Guard Battalion. The driver of the car that exploded also died.

"Those responsible for suicide attacks are seeking to halt Iraq's progress on the path to democracy," O'Brien said.

Meanwhile, the United States said it had significantly increased troop strength in Mosul to provide security ahead of the Jan. 30 elections for a constitutional assembly. The city has seen stepped-up insurgent attacks on both American and Iraqi forces in the weeks since U.S. troops captured the guerrilla stronghold of Fallujah in mid-November.

Two brigade-sized units, consisting of Iraqi forces and elements of the 82nd Airborne Division, were deployed to augment the 8,000 troops already in Mosul, military spokesman Lt. Col. Paul Hastings said. Brigades can include 2,000-4,000 soldiers.

"It's just a matter of we want to make sure elections can be conducted and the high level of terrorist activity is eliminated," Hastings said.

In the other attack, four policemen were killed while on patrol in Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, the military said. A fifth was wounded. Both Samarra and Balad are in the so-called Sunni Triangle, the scene of frequent assaults on U.S. and Iraqi security forces.


In other violence Sunday, Col. Abdel Karim Riyadh, the police chief in Jebala, a town 40 miles south of Baghdad, was killed when gunmen stormed his house, police said.

Assailants also killed a police officer in a drive-by shooting in southern Baghdad late Saturday, police commissioner Najm Eid said. A Shiite cleric also was killed in the Baghdad neighborhood of Amil, he said.

Gunmen shot dead a deputy governor of the eastern Diyala province in his car, doctor Ahmed Fouad at the Baqoubah General Hospital said Sunday.

The attacks came a day after al-Qaida's arm in Iraq issued a video showing militants executing five Iraqi security officers in the street, the latest move in their campaign to intimidate Iraqis and target those collaborating with U.S.-led forces.

A statement posted Saturday on an Islamist Web site along with the video denounced the officers as "American dogs" and threatened other Iraqis with the same fate if they joined security forces.

The U.S. military and the interim government of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi want the Iraqi police and National Guard to provide security for the vote, but mass desertions from those forces could scuttle such plans.

The insurgents' video and statement were issued by al-Qaida in Iraq, the group led by Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The United States has offered a $25 million reward for al-Zarqawi's capture - the same amount as for Osama bin Laden.

Separate photos of the executions indicated they occurred Dec. 26 in the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi, west of Baghdad.

One of five masked gunmen behind the doomed men reads a statement describing them as a "bunch of apostates" who came to Ramadi to support "the apostate Allawi government and help the unjust American enemy."

"As usual, jihadists have no mercy when it comes to such infidel souls," he said.

The video then shows the men being shot in the back. After they fall to the ground, the gunmen kick them before pumping more bullets into their bodies.

In a separate Web statement posted Saturday, al-Zarqawi's group also claimed responsibility for a number of attacks targeting security forces around Iraq earlier in the week.

In other developments Sunday, the U.S. military said Iraqi security forces "decisively defeated" insurgents attempting to seize a police station in southeast Mosul on Saturday - the fifth such attack in a week.

U.S.-led forces from 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division detained 14 people "for anti-Iraqi activities" during operations Saturday in northern Iraq, a statement said.

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DEMON CUNT
01-02-2005, 12:39 PM
A similar CNN article (http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/02/iraq.main/index.html) states the following:

Particularly problematic, Goran said, is the lack of a police force in Mosul. Of the city's original 14,000 officers, he said, the number has fallen to 600 active policemen.

This Pentagon driven "fake election" doesn't appear to be very popular. How are they going to secure their polling places? With our soldiers? That means even more of them will be slaughtered in the name of an illegal invasion.

The attacks are getting worse and worse.

If you voted for Bush- you voted for death and failure!

FORD
01-02-2005, 01:36 PM
Al Qaida's arm in iraq???? This is what the ASSociated Press calls it now??

What a crock of shit.

LoungeMachine
01-02-2005, 01:43 PM
Our forces dying in Iraq are all part of God's plan.

He's just thinning the herd.

Just ask the Independent Moderate BigBlindBrian.

Any executions of Iraqis must also fall under this category.

Hey, whatever the Big Guy wants, I guess.

BigBadBrian
01-02-2005, 01:47 PM
Originally posted by DEMON CUNT


If you voted for Bush- you voted for death and failure! [/B]

If you voted for Kerry, you voted for sending more troops over there...and an idiot. :gulp:

LoungeMachine
01-02-2005, 01:55 PM
Originally posted by BigBadBrian
If you voted for Kerry, you voted for sending more troops over there...and an idiot. :gulp:

You're ACTUALLY going to throw in the IDIOT CARD when comparing Kerry to Junior???????

seriously?
Hey, "moderate independent", your con is showing again.

BigBadBrian
01-02-2005, 02:10 PM
Originally posted by LoungeMachine
You're ACTUALLY going to throw in the IDIOT CARD when comparing Kerry to Junior???????

seriously?
Hey, "moderate independent", your con is showing again.

One idiot CAN be bigger than the other.

Take you and Nick for instance. I can't decide on which is the bigger idiot. :gulp:

LoungeMachine
01-02-2005, 02:14 PM
Originally posted by BigBadBrian
One idiot CAN be bigger than the other.

Take you and Nick for instance. I can't decide on which is the bigger idiot. :gulp:

I'm a much bigger idiot than Nick.

Just as YOU far and away out idiot Big Train and all the others.:D

LoungeMachine
01-02-2005, 02:17 PM
Originally posted by BigBadBrian
One idiot CAN be bigger than the other.

:

Just for grins and giggles, how about actually answering a direct Q:D

Who's more intelligent in your opinion?

I just for ONCE would like one of you "moderate independents" to come out and ADMIT he's a fucking dolt.

Nickdfresh
01-02-2005, 02:20 PM
Originally posted by BigBadBrian
If you voted for Kerry, you voted for sending more troops over there...and an idiot. :gulp:

Eh? I CAN'T HEAR YOU WITH ALL THESE JETS SCREECHING ON THE FLIGHT DECK! THIS SOUND IS MAKING ME AN IDIOT!

BigBadBrian
01-02-2005, 02:21 PM
Originally posted by LoungeMachine
Just for grins and giggles, how about actually answering a direct Q:D

Who's more intelligent in your opinion?



I am, of course. :D

LoungeMachine
01-02-2005, 02:24 PM
Originally posted by BigBadBrian
I am, of course. :D

See, this is why I cant hate your facist, right wing wacko self:D

BigBadBrian
01-02-2005, 02:25 PM
Originally posted by LoungeMachine
See, this is why I cant hate your facist, right wing wacko self:D

I told you I'm a Moderate though. :D

LoungeMachine
01-02-2005, 02:28 PM
Originally posted by BigBadBrian
I told you I'm a Moderate though. :D

You're a moderately right wing facist wacko.

Let's leave it at that.:cool:

DEMON CUNT
01-02-2005, 06:21 PM
Originally posted by BigBadBrian
If you voted for Kerry, you voted for sending more troops over there...and an idiot. :gulp:

Kerry? Who's that?

Try to stay on subject!

jojo2371
01-02-2005, 06:44 PM
john kerry is the vietnam veteran who ran for president i think he did something else not sure though

ODShowtime
01-02-2005, 07:14 PM
[QUOTE]Originally posted by LoungeMachine Just for grins and giggles, how about actually answering a direct Q


Originally posted by BigBadBrian
I am, of course. :D

Wow! Smarter than gw and John Kerry. mad props bro! :rolleyes:

Nickdfresh
01-02-2005, 08:26 PM
Link (http://www.ogrish.com/archives/execution_video_al_qaida_arm_executes_five_iraqi_p olice_officers_Jan_01_2005.html/Download_5-policemen-executed-by-al-qaida.wmv)

Warning: Graphic site is NOT WORK friendly.

LoungeMachine
01-02-2005, 08:37 PM
Can we call these "militants" what they actually are.


Iraqis.