Senior Officer, Three Iraqi Guardsmen Beheaded

The Brigades of the Iraqi Honorables (also called the Brigades of Iraq's Honorable People), a previously unknown group, has beheaded three Iraqi National Guardsmen and gave a video to al-Jazeera. The Arabic-language television station reported the murders but declined to show the grisly video. Video of each hostage was shown when they were still alive along with their identification. Three headless bodies were found in Baghdad earlier today.

Also today, The Army of Ansar al-Sunna posted a videotape on their website showing the beheading of Maj. Hussein Shanoun, a senior Army officer, who was seized 10 days ago in northern Iraq. His headless body was found three days later.

According to Interior Ministry spokesman Col. Adnan Abdul Rahman, the American kidnapped on Monday at the Saudi Arabian Trading and Contracting Company in the Mansour district of Baghdad has been identified as Radeen (Radim) Sadeq. A Lebanese-American, Sadeq worked as a contractor for a mobile communications company.

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