Wednesday, May 09, 2007

 

Islamic State of Iraq shows nine captured security guards

(SITE) - The Islamic State of Iraq, in several communiqués issued to jihadist forums between Monday, May 7, 2007, and Tuesday, May 8, reported harvest of operations reports for Baghdad and Diyala, and claims for attacks, of which in three, the group provides details for a large-scale operation Samarra and attacks in Baquba and Abu Ghraib.
The group also issued an 8:16 minute video today through al-Furqan Foundation, showing nine captured employees from the Iraqi Interior and Defense Ministries, including five officers ranging in rank from first lieutenant to captain. Each individual states their name and position, and the Islamic State makes the same demands of the Iraqi government for their release as they have made in prior arrests: giving a 72-hour deadline for the release of Sunni Muslim women from prison and for those Shi’ite police officers who allegedly raped Sabrin al-Janabi and women in Tal Afar to be turned over.
In Baquba, in the governorate of Diyala, yesterday, the Islamic State claims its Mujahideen detonated a large improvised explosive device (IED) on a Stryker armored vehicle that exploded with such intensity that it flipped a vehicle behind the Stryker. Fifteen American soldiers and a journalist who accompanied them are stated to have been killed, and vehicles on the scene were left burning for many hours. Media reports indicate that Dmitry Chebotayev, a Russian photographer, was killed in this attack along with six American soldiers. The previous day, Saturday, May 5th, a suicide bomber from the Islamic State detonated his car on a gathering of volunteers for the Iraqi army in Abu Ghraib. The attack, which was referenced in the statement of warning from the Islamic State’s Ministry of War to army volunteers, allegedly killed not less than 100 and injured another 150.

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