Qaeda in Iraq claims killing of four Shiite Badr members

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DUBAI, Dec 13 (AFP) - Al-Qaeda in Iraq said it killed four members of the
Shiite movement Badr in the northern city of Mosul, in a video posted on an
Islamist website on Tuesday.

The video of the Al-Qaeda group which is headed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,
Iraq's most wanted man, shows two masked gunmen shoot four men crossing a
busy shopping street.

One of the men appears to have been gunned down outside a garage, while one
of the assailants shoots two victims sprawled on the pavement while cars and
trucks pass by.

The video, whose authenticity could not be verified, shows documents,
including two marked "interior ministry - police academy". One is marked
Samir Shihab Ahmed and the other Hussam Abdel Khaleq Hussein Qorra.

They were killed because they had signed up to the Mosul police, it said.

The Badr Brigade is the militia of one of Iraq's top Shiite parties, the
Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, and has officially been
turned into a political movement.

Sunni religious leaders have repeatedly accused the Badr Brigade of
involvement in the killing of Sunni Arabs in Baghdad, despite its denials.
 
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