Thursday, February 15, 2007
Video of kidnapped American-Iraqi soldier found
Security
(SITE) A posting to a Shi’ite jihadist forum, made in the name of a previously unknown Iraqi Shi’te insurgency group, Ahl al-Bayt Brigades, on February 13, 2007, contained a 10 second video showing abducted U.S. Army Sgt. Ahmed Qusai Altaie.
Sergeant Altaie, an Iraqi-American soldier serving as a translator for the U.S. military in Iraq, was declared “duty status whereabouts unknown” after he and a cousin were abducted in the Karrada neighborhood in central Baghdad on October 23, 2006. His cousin was later released. Sergeant Altaie is the nephew of Entifadh Qanbar, a former advisor to Ahmed Chalabi.
Though the video carries no audio, a document was also issued, in which the group states “we warn the American people of the result of sending their soldiers to Iraq so they don’t face the same fate…”
Sergeant Altaie, an Iraqi-American soldier serving as a translator for the U.S. military in Iraq, was declared “duty status whereabouts unknown” after he and a cousin were abducted in the Karrada neighborhood in central Baghdad on October 23, 2006. His cousin was later released. Sergeant Altaie is the nephew of Entifadh Qanbar, a former advisor to Ahmed Chalabi.
Though the video carries no audio, a document was also issued, in which the group states “we warn the American people of the result of sending their soldiers to Iraq so they don’t face the same fate…”
Labels: kidnap, security, U.S. soldier
