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Islamic Video Says U.S. Soldiers Killed

Insurgent Group Posted Notice On Internet

POSTED: 8:59 am EDT June 4, 2007
UPDATED: 1:43 pm EDT June 4, 2007

An Islamic militant Web site released a video showing the purported identification cards of captured American soldiers, including Lawrence's Alex Jimenez, which claims the soldiers have been killed, according to ABC News.

The speaker on the video released by the Islamic State of Iraq announced that soldiers were dead, reported ABC News, blaming the U.S. for their deaths.

According to the video, the Islamic State of Iraq "decided to put an end to this issue and announced the news about their death, so that this becomes the bitter result for the enemies of God after they were prisoners, who were alive they became dead bodies. The U.S. Army, its politicians and leaders are the only ones to be held responsible for what happened to the three soldiers."

The speaker goes on to explain that the soldiers may have survived if the U.S. Army had not done the search in such a way that included random arrests and "humiliation" of Muslims. He also said the bodies will be buried and they will not be given to the U.S. Army.

A banner posted on a prominent jihadist Web site announced earlier Monday that the al Furqan Foundation, a media committee of the Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella insurgent group comprised of al-Qaida and others, would release the video about "the clashes and the arrest of the three Americans" in Iraq.

The soldiers disappeared in May after their unit was ambushed in Iraq.

The two missing soldiers were Pvt. Byron Wayne Fouty and Spc. Alex Ramon Jimenez.

One of the soldiers, Pfc. Joseph Anzack, was found dead earlier, but the others -- including Jimenez -- remained missing.


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