Three Kurdish Truck Drivers Executed
From the NYT
“They sent some of the scum of disbelievers to fight God’s soldiers, and here are their defeated brigades,” the militants wrote in the statement. They added that they were beheading the truck drivers to teach the Kurdish leaders “a lesson not to be forgotten.”More than 135 foreigners have been kidnapped in Iraq, many of them drivers transporting goods for the occupation forces or the interim government. Kidnappings are generally done for money, and most of those abducted have been released. But in several cases, the hostages have been killed by militant groups, and their executions shown in excruciating detail on Arabic-language television or on Internet sites.
On Saturday, a group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant, released a video showing two American engineers and a Briton who had been abducted earlier in the week. The insurgents said the men would be killed within 48 hours if women held in two American prison camps were not freed.
The fate of two kidnapped Italian relief workers remains unknown. Two kidnapped French journalists were scheduled to be freed to report on the activities of the insurgents, according to statements released Saturday by the Islamic Army of Iraq. The French government has yet to confirm that the journalists will be released.
Pray for them all.
