Terror Group Releases Video Allegedly Showing Capture of U.S. Soldiers in Iraq
CAIRO, Egypt — An Al Qaeda-front group released a video it said showed militants capturing three American soldiers, who went missing in Iraq in mid-May.
The video, which was made available to The Associated Press by the Washington-based SITE Institute, does not show the soldiers, and the black-and-white footage of what the group said was the ambush was grainy and unclear. The sounds of gunshots could be heard in the video clip.
The body of one soldier was later found in Iraq's Euphrates River, but the other two remain missing. A family friend of one of the missing soldiers said the U.S. military has briefed the soldier's father about the video.
SITE Institute, which monitors militant Web sites, said the 10-minute, 41-second video shows the planning stages and kidnapping operation as well as footage from after the attack that was shown on the pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera.
The video also shows the identification cards of two of the two missing soldiers. SITE released a still shot of the identification cards video that also displays the headline: "Bush is the reason of the loss of your POWs" written on the screen above the cards. SITE did not say how it obtained the video.
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