Web Site Shows Iraqi Militants Beheading Man

CAIRO, Egypt — Iraqi militants beheaded a man, presumably Iraqi, who said he worked for the U.S. military in the northern city of Mosul (search) for the past 10 months, according to a videotape posted on Islamic Web sites Saturday.

The killing was claimed by the Ansar al-Sunnah Army (search), a group that claimed responsibility for beheading a Turkish driver and an Arab Shiite Muslim in two tapes that surfaced earlier this month and 12 Nepalese construction workers, whose killings were shown in a video posted Aug. 31.

The authenticity of the latest tape and the claim of responsibility could not be independently verified.

The tape posted Saturday showed a man wearing what appeared to be a U.S. military-issue brown T-shirt. Speaking in Arabic, he identified himself as Seif Adnan Kanaan, saying he worked as a vehicle mechanic and beverage deliverer for U.S. forces based at Mosul airport.

The tape showed him with his hands tied behind his back seated in front of three armed, masked militants. The militants were before a black banner with white Arabic script bearing the militant group's name.

One militant described Kanaan as a "crusader spy recruited by the American troops to follow and carry information about the mujahedeen in Mosul." The militant also accused the captive of cursing Islam's Prophet Muhammad (search).

Shortly before he was killed, the hostage said, "I am telling anybody who wants to work with Americans to not work with them. I found out that the mujahadeen have very accurate information [and] strong intelligence about everything. They are stronger than I thought."

The tape then shows a militant slitting the victim's throat before severing his head and placing it on his back. The tape did not specify the man's nationality, but he appeared to be Iraqi. It was unclear when he was captured or killed.

In their campaign to force U.S.-led forces out of Iraq, insurgents have targeted people, including Arabs, they regard as supporting the American military.

GLOBAL JIHAD

"If a kafir person (non-believer) goes in a Muslim country, he is like a cow," explains Hamza. "Anybody can take him. That is the Islamic law...I say the reality that's in the Muslim books anyway. Whether I say it or not, it's in the books." -Muslim cleric

Posted: January 26, 2003
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In November, Sheik Abu Hamza, long affiliated with Finsbury Park, was caught on film urging his followers to kill non-Muslims – particularly Americans – and to commit other acts of terrorism

As WorldNetDaily reported at the time, in a tape converted to digital files and smuggled onto the Internet, Hamza tells an audience that non-believers should be killed or sold into slavery.

"If a kafir person (non-believer) goes in a Muslim country, he is like a cow," explains Hamza. "Anybody can take him. That is the Islamic law."

"If a kafir is walking by and you catch him, he's booty," he says on one tape. "You can sell him in the market. Most of them are spies. And even if they don't do anything, if Muslims cannot take them and sell them in the market, you just kill them. It's OK."

Praising the al-Qaida bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people, Hamza adds: "If Muslims are having a war against these people, than yes, it is legitimate" to kill them. He also praised attacks against ships from non-Muslim countries: "If a ship which loses its way and comes to a Muslim land, they'll take it as booty."

In fact, the 2000 terrorist attack on the USS Cole killed, which killed 17 American sailors, has been linked to Muslim militants in Britain. But Hamza has never been charged.

When confronted with such charges, Hamza scoffs, saying he can't be accused of inciting people to commit violent acts because he's a cleric who only preaches Muslim law. "I say the reality that's in the Muslim books anyway. Whether I say it or not, it's in the books."

Despite accusations he recruits for al-Qaida, Hamza's only punishment in Britain has been a High Court order banning him from preaching at the Finsbury Park mosque. However, when the Ottawa Citizen visited the mosque recently, worshippers had his phone number handy, the newspaper reported.

Two of Hamza's devotees include failed suicide bombers Richard Reid - who tried to detonate a shoe bomb while flying from Paris to the US - and Zacharias Moussaoui, who the FBI claims was to have been the 20th hijacker in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.

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