Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq 16/ Sep/ 2004

Villagers found three decapitated bodies north of Baghdad on Wednesday.
The bodies were found in nylon bags, the heads in bags alongside them, near Dujail, about 25 miles north of Baghdad, said Col. Adnan Abdul-Rahman of the Interior Ministry.

An Associated Press photographer saw the three corpses lined up with their heads by their sides on the floor at the guard compound before U.S. troops collected them and handed them over to police. Two wore jeans and shirts and the third wore sweat pants and a T-shirt. All appeared young.

Iraqi police said two of the bodies had tattoos written in the Roman alphabet - one saying "HECER", and the other a letter "H". The third body had tattoos in Arabic script but the words were not Arabic. There were no documents on the corpses.

A U.S. military official said the bodies appeared to be Iraqis and had their hands tied behind their backs. While Islamic Terrorists have often beheaded foreign hostages in their fight against the government and coalition forces, it is not a tactic usually used against Iraqis, who are more often abducted for money (-However it should be noted that these two men are Assyrian Christians and not Muslims).

Firas Petrous

Rimon Shimoun

Ankawa.com has obtained a movie from its sources in Iraq, which shows an Islamic Terrorist group named 'The Brigades of Salaheddin Al-Eyobe the armed faction'. Committing a hideous and inhumane crime of beheading two Assyrian Christian men from Mosul, and the movie also shows the beheading of a third unidentified man. The criminals' sons of Darkness filmed their unarmed captives stating their names and identifying themselves in terrified and shaky voices before decapitating them in a horrendous and savage scene.

The two victims are: Reemon Farouq Sham'aoun, which the movie didn't show any of his identifications, except him stating his name before being beheaded and the second is Feeras Moufaq Potros born in Mosul 1978. The movie showed his identity card from the University of Mosul.

(note- Salaheddin Al-Eyoby which the group is named after: was a known Kurdish Islamist leader. I believe that the goals of such Islamic groups are to ethnically cleanse the Assyrian Christians from their native lands and replace them with Kurds by terrorizing them, which has been a systematic method adopted by all Assyrian neighbors since the Islamic invasion into Iraq.

May all our Martyrs rest in peace in paradise, and may God and our lord Jesus Christ protect and guard our nation and church against the sons of darkness, which their end is near.