Jordanian hostage released, one Turkish killed in Iraq
Iraq, Local, 10/15/2004

"Ansar al-Sunnah" ( the Sunni Supporters) group in Iraq yesterday implemented a second beheading screened on the Internet against a Turkish citizen introduced as "a truck driver who transports supplies to the American forces" in Iraq.

The group said in its on the Internet that "the brave lions in Ansar al-Sunnah army were able to capture a Turkish truck driver while transporting supplies for the American forces," and screened the tape showing his slaughtering as "an implementing of the rule of God." The site showed one of the veiled four men behind while beheading the hostage and then put his head on his body.

Meantime, the Iraqi police in Sameraa city said that gunmen kidnapped on Monday two Turkish truck drivers and two Iraqis in separate ambushes in the downtown of Iraq yesterday.

Meantime, kidnappers released the Jordanian hostage Hisham Talab al-Ezza on Wednesday evening after his family paid a ransom of $ 50,000.

In his house in Irbid, al-Ezza said "all what I know is that I was held in Falluja by a group calling itself Imam Ali groups. But he stressed that his kidnappers were Sunni.

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