Sunni Group Beheads Iranian Security Agent

Muslims sure have an obsession with chopping heads off.

From The Courier-Mail:

A LITTLE-KNOWN Sunni Muslim group has beheaded an Iranian security agent it abducted last month in officially Shiite Iran and has issued a video tape of the killing, Al Arabiya television reported today.

Al Arabiya said the Organisation of God's Soldiers for Sunni Mujahideen (Holy Fighters) in Iran had issued the tape, but the satellite channel would not air the footage of the killing.

It broadcast parts of the video showing a masked man pushing the blindfolded hostage, identified as Shahab Mansouri, to the ground and another approaching him with a knife.

The tape's authenticity could not be verified immediately.

On June 20, Al Arabiya aired a video from the group threatening to "send the hostage's head as a gift to the elected president" if Iranian authorities did not free its imprisoned members within three weeks.

Well, it's been about three weeks and the Sunnis followed through on their threat, presumably carried out on orders from the group's leader, Abdul Malik Baluchi. Based upon his appearance in the video, Baluchi is believed to be from Iran's remote southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan province, an area of sporadic unrest.

It's interesting that Al Arabiya decided not to air the video. Could it be that the station is leery of offending the Iranian government?