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Black Watch suicide attack video posted on web
Iraq



Published: 08-Nov-2004
By: Channel 4 News



A video purportedly showing a suicide attack on three British troops outside Baghdad has been posted on an Islamic website.






Followers of Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had earlier claimed responsibility for the Thursday attack that killed three British soldiers south of Baghdad.







A subtitle on the video claims "The first martyrdom operation against the British forces in Baghdad" before the video shows a car slowly driving down a road before it bursts into flames



No military vehicle is seen nearby.



Off-camera, a voice yells out "Allah Akbar," or "God is Great."



The tape then shows what appears to be military vehicles and a helicopter hovering nearby.



The video tape later appears to show a blown-off arm and a person, partially off-camera, kicks the arm.



A subtitle reads "these are some of the body parts that they have not seen because there were so many."



At one point, a voice proclaims: "I swear...that the head of America has been rolled in the dust and trampled on by our heroes."



On Thursday, soldiers from Britain's Black Watch regiment were manning a vehicle checkpoint east of the Euphrates River when a suicide bomber blew up his vehicle and other insurgents fired mortars at the position, killing three soldiers and wounding eight more, according to British officials.



The three deaths represented the worst combat loss suffered by British troops since August 23, 2003, when three Royal Military Police were killed in southern Iraq.



So far, 73 British troops have been killed.



An Iraqi interpreter who had postponed his wedding to travel to central Iraq with the troops was also killed, British officials said.



Al-Zarqawi's group are believed responsible for numerous car bombings and beheadings of foreign hostages, including Briton Kenneth Bigley.



The group, formerly known as Tawhid and Jihad is now believed to be formally aligned with al-Qaida since a recent announcement made on an Islamic website.



The British Black Watch had been sent to the high-risk area in central Iraq to free up U.S. forces for an expected assault on the militant stronghold of Fallujah.



The regiment's move from relatively peaceful southern Iraq to the American-controlled zone, where troops come under daily attack from insurgents, is politically sensitive for Prime Minister Tony Blair, who has come under opposition from politicians for supporting the U.S. in Iraq.




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