Qaeda-led Group Posts Executions Of Abducted Officers On Web

(Dubai, Iraq) -- A video of the executions of nine abducted Iraqi police and army officers has been posted to the Internet. The footage showed a member of the Islamic State in Iraq shooting the hostages in the head with a pistol as they kneeled in an open field. The executions were carried out after the Iraqi government failed to meet a 72 hour deadline to surrender officers suspected of raping a Sunni Muslim woman. The militant group also demanded the release of additional officers suspected of violence against Sunni Muslims.