Team Infidel
Forum Spin Doctor
DUBAI, Oct 17 (AFP) - Al-Qaeda in Iraq on Monday released a video purporting
to show the execution of an Iraqi who worked for US forces, days after
Washington said the group had been told such killings cost the movement
support.
The video was released by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group after US authorities
said they had seized a letter from Al-Qaeda's overall number two, Ayman
al-Zawahiri, telling him his campaign of executions and attacks on Muslims
was damaging popular, mainly Sunni Arab, support for the insurgency.
The letter was swiftly denounced as untrue by Al-Qaeda in Iraq, with an
Internet statement calling on "Muslims to ignore such cheap propaganda",
adding that the killing of "infidel" Muslims was allowed.
Monday's video on an Islamist website showed a man with his hands tied
behind his back being shot twice in the head and dumped in a wasteland.
The undated film, whose authenticity could not be verified, was titled
"Application of Divine Judgement on a Contractor Working for the Crusaders,"
in reference to US-led forces in Iraq.
It showed identity papers belonging to Mahmud Alwan Hussein, including a
membership card for an association of Iraqi contractors and a provisional
licence to carry a weapon.
Iraq's most-wanted man Zarqawi has a 25-million-dollar US bounty on his head
and his group has claimed responsibility for some of the most brutal attacks
and kidnappings in Iraq.
His group declared all-out war against Iraq's majority Shiite population
last month.
to show the execution of an Iraqi who worked for US forces, days after
Washington said the group had been told such killings cost the movement
support.
The video was released by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group after US authorities
said they had seized a letter from Al-Qaeda's overall number two, Ayman
al-Zawahiri, telling him his campaign of executions and attacks on Muslims
was damaging popular, mainly Sunni Arab, support for the insurgency.
The letter was swiftly denounced as untrue by Al-Qaeda in Iraq, with an
Internet statement calling on "Muslims to ignore such cheap propaganda",
adding that the killing of "infidel" Muslims was allowed.
Monday's video on an Islamist website showed a man with his hands tied
behind his back being shot twice in the head and dumped in a wasteland.
The undated film, whose authenticity could not be verified, was titled
"Application of Divine Judgement on a Contractor Working for the Crusaders,"
in reference to US-led forces in Iraq.
It showed identity papers belonging to Mahmud Alwan Hussein, including a
membership card for an association of Iraqi contractors and a provisional
licence to carry a weapon.
Iraq's most-wanted man Zarqawi has a 25-million-dollar US bounty on his head
and his group has claimed responsibility for some of the most brutal attacks
and kidnappings in Iraq.
His group declared all-out war against Iraq's majority Shiite population
last month.