Jurf Al Sakhar 5-15-2005 Police on Saturday found three beheaded corpses in the town of Jurf al-Sakhar, south of Baghdad, police said. Hospital officials said the victims had been tortured. Insurgents have shot or beheaded scores of Iraqis they suspect of working with American forces.
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4/29/06 Iraq Jurf al-SakharIslamic radicals abduct a policeman and his brother, then dump their bodies by their house two hours later.
Today (October 24, 2005) a particularly heinous crime has been committed. I am referring to the slaying of building laborers slain near the accursed village of Jurf Al Sakhar, south of Baghdad. 12 men mostly belonging to same two families were slain for no reason other than pure sectarian and racist hate. These poor laborers were slain as they were toiling for their daily bread. This abominable village mentioned above has been the source of many of such acts and is inhabited by certain well known murderous and callous Sunni tribes. These are thieves and criminals by tradition and a place from which many of the actual thugs and torturers of Saddam torture chambers used to be recruited.
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Qaeda-linked group says abducted US soldiers in Iraq
Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:16am ET
DUBAI (Reuters) - A key Iraqi militant body linked to al Qaeda said on Monday it had abducted two American soldiers near Yusufiya, in the same region where the U.S. military reported two of its men went missing last week.
"Your brothers in the military wing of the Mujahideen Shura Council kidnapped two American soldiers near Yusufiya," the group said in a statement posted on the Internet.
"We will provide you with more details about the incident in the next coming days."
U.S. and Iraqi forces are searching for two U.S. soldiers who went missing on Friday after an attack on a checkpoint near Yusufiya south of Baghdad that killed another soldier.
Divers searched the Euphrates River and U.S. aircraft combed the surrounding area near Yusufiya, an al Qaeda stronghold south of Baghdad.
"The American army, using different kinds of machines and armor, raided the area where the incident took place but the army of 'the world's strongest country' returned without success, humiliated," said the statement which was posted on a Web site often used by Islamist militants.
The statement, whose authenticity could not be verified, said the event showed "the weakness of U.S. intelligence".
The posting did not provide any proof of the kidnapping. Iraqi militant groups have often posted pictures of identification cards of hostages or issued video tapes of them.
The Council, an umbrella body composed of al Qaeda in Iraq and some other Sunni Islamist militant groups, has pledged to continue a holy war against U.S.-led forces despite the killing of the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Al Qaeda in Iraq has killed a number of foreign hostages, some by beheading.
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