Beheading Room Found in Fallujah

The Sydney Morning Herald (free reg.) is reporting that U.S. Marines swept through Fallujah and found a beheading chamber with evidence that at least one person was beheaded in the room.


U.S. Marine shows snapshot found during search. [Photo: AFP]
In their search, the Marines also found AK-47s, shoulder-fired missiles, fake identifications, and a fully equipped bomb factory using C4 plastic explosives.

A hollowed-out plastic foam container about the size of two shoe boxes lay in the bomb lab, packed with plastic explosives and wires. The plastic foam box was covered in cloth to disguise it as an innocuous package.

Scattered on the ground nearby, mobile phones, walkie-talkies, Motorola handheld radios - all used as detonators - lay tangled in coils of wire. There was a computer without a hard drive and a box full of professional explosives-triggering.

The Marines also rescued two hostages, an Iraqi and a Syrian. The Syrian hostage had been the driver for the two French journalists, Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot, kidnapped in August. The location of the journalists is unknown, but they're believed to be alive. The rescued Iraqi hostage said the terrorists who kidnapped him were Syrian and that "the Syrians were always in charge."

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