Video shows trio's Iraq execution

A video surfaced on the internet today showing three drivers employed by a Jordanian trucking company being shot dead execution style by a militant Islamic group in Iraq.

One of Iraq’s most feared insurgent groups, Ansar al-Sunnah, posted the video on an Islamic website known as a clearing house for militant movement’s material. The three men were shown being shot in the back of the head in a desert-like area.

The identities and nationalities of the dead men were unclear due to the poor quality of the tape, but their accents appeared to be Iraqi.

“We don’t see any difference between them and the Americans,” a statement attached to the video said. “On the contrary, they work night and day in aiding the Americans to find the houses and locations of the mujahedeen (holy warriors).”

One of the men interviewed on the tape before being shot claimed he worked for the Jordan-based Shaheen Company contracted by US forces to supply Iraqi police academies in Hillah and Kut, south of Baghdad.

“I am filled with remorse,” one of the men said during a taped interrogation. “This company is contracted by American troops.” The driver claimed he was not forced to confess.

“This is the fate of every agent,” a voice said on the tape after the executions were shown.

Ansar al-Sunnah is one of Iraq’s most violent insurgent groups. It has claimed responsibility for attacking US and Iraqi forces, including a December suicide bombing killing 22 people, mostly US soldiers, on a military mess tent in the northern city of Mosul.