Two hostages beheaded 'for aiding US'
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An al-Qaeda linked group has named a Turkish contractor and an
Iraqi Kurdish man shown beheaded on a video posted on the Internet. The
Army of Ansar al-Sunna says it's killed Maher Kemal after he confessed
to being a contractor for US forces at Al-Bakr airbase, north of
Baghdad. The Turk was taken captive on the highway between Mosul and
Baghdad on October the 8th. A separate statement by the group posted on
the same website identified the beheaded Kurdish translator as Lukman
Hussein, a native of Dahuk and member of Massoud Barzani's Kurdistan
Democratic Party. It said Hussein, who worked with US forces in the
Sunni Muslim rebel bastion of Ramadi, confessed to taking part in the
night raids and arrests carried out against women, elderly men and
children in Ramadi. [more 
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- More than
two-thirds of the people living in Australia, Britain and Italy -- three
countries allied with the United States in the Iraq war -- believe the
war has increased the threat of terrorism. [more ]
