Video purportedly shows Americans burned By OMAR SINAN, Associated Press Writer.
CAIRO, Egypt - An al-Qaida-linked group posted a Web video Saturday purporting to show the bodies of two American soldiers being dragged behind a truck, then set on fire in apparent retaliation for the alleged rape-slaying of a young Iraqi woman by U.S. troops from the same unit.
The Mujahedeen Shura Council — an umbrella organization of insurgent groups, including al-Qaida in Iraq — posted a previous video in June showing the soldiers' mutilated bodies, and claiming it killed them. It was not clear whether Saturday's video was a continuation of that footage, or why it was released.
The new footage came hours after the posting of another al-Qaida video, an apparent re-release of a tape showing the execution of a Turkish hostage — by the man purported to be the new leader of Al-Qaida in Iraq.
The soldiers, just before they died, ask the world to forgive them for the Iraq war.
2006-09-23
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