Website shows beheading
2004-11-03 15:13
Dubai - The al-Qaeda-linked Army of Ansar al-Sunna posted a video on its website on Wednesday showing the beheading of "a senior Iraqi army officer" in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
"Your mujahedeen brothers in Mosul managed to capture a senior officer in the Iraqi army, the apostate Major Hussein Shanun," the extremist group said in a statement.
The statement was posted along with the video and photos showing the victim after he was decapitated with his head placed on his own back.
"At the behest of his American masters (Shanun) took part, along with his soldiers, in several operations against the mujahedeen in Mosul," it said.
It said the "despicable officer confessed to his actions" and warned that anyone who "dares back the crusader occupation forces" would meet the same fate.
The Army of Ansar al-Sunna has issued videos and pictures of several alleged Iraqi collaborators and foreigners it beheaded.
The group, which is linked to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, killed 12 Nepalese workers in late August after taking them hostage.
Several other foreigners have also been beheaded after they were abducted by Islamist militant groups in Iraq in the past few months.