Zarqawi video shows execution of Iraq election candidate from PM's party

DUBAI, Jan 27 (AFP) - Supporters of Iraq's most wanted man, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, on Thursday posted a video on the Internet of their murder of a candidate in Iraq's elections from the party of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.
The Al-Qaeda Group in the Land of Two Rivers announced Sunday on a website that it had executed Salem Jaafar al-Kanani, "secretary of the traitor Iyad Allawi", and a video would be released at a later time.
In the video, Kanani makes a "confession" and calls for Iraqis, especially the young, "not to collaborate with the enemy occupier" before being gunned down with several bullets.

01/27/2005 17:04 GMT - AFP