Iraq Qaeda-led group kills abducted officers-Web

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Source: Reuters

DUBAI, May 10 (Reuters) - The self-styled Islamic State in Iraq, an al Qaeda-led militant group, posted a video showing the killing of nine abducted police and army officers, after an ultimatum it gave to the Iraqi government expired.

The footage posted on the Internet showed a militant shoot them in the head with a pistol as they kneeled in an open field. The group had demanded that the government surrender within 72 hours officers involved in the suspected rape of a Sunni Muslim woman, among other demands.


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1. FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, May 10

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, May 10
10 May 2007 07:54:25 GMT
More May 10 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 0700 GMT on Thursday:

BAGHDAD - Police said they found the bodies of 21 people shot dead in different districts of Baghdad on Wednesday.

MOSUL - A hospital received the bodies of three people, two women and a man, from one family in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - The bodies of two police officers were found in Mosul, police said.

MAHAWEEL - The bodies of two people shot and tortured were found in the town of Mahaweel, 75 km (50 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

ISKANDARIYA - A roadside bomb wounded five people on Wednesday in the town of Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
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2. Video shows killings of 9 seized Iraqis

Source: Associated Press

CAIRO, Egypt - An al-Qaida front organization posted a video Thursday showing the killings of nine Iraqi security officers who were lined up blindfolded with their hands bound behind them and shot in the back of the head.

The Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella group of Iraqi insurgents including al-Qaida, had issued a video on Tuesday threatening to kill the men unless the government responded within 72 hours to their demands, including the release of all Sunni Muslim women from Iraqi prisons and the handover "of those who raped the Iraqi woman and killed our brethren in Tal Afar."

"As the deadline given by the Islamic State of Iraq ended, the jurisdiction court decided to execute God's verdict against those apostates," a statement posted with the video read.

The grisly video showed the deaths of five army officers and four police officers at the hands of a masked militant dressed in black, who was accompanied by two similarly attired colleagues. The bodies were shown on the ground afterward.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070510/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_killings