ISI Kidnaps Nine Iraqi Officers, Threatens to Execute Them Within 72 Hours Unless Its Demands Are Met

In a video released May 7, 2007, the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) announced that it had kidnapped nine officers affiliated with the Iraqi Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Defense in Diyala, and that they would be executed within 72 hours unless its demands were met. The demands are: The Iraqi government must release all Sunni women prisoners from its jails, and must hand over to the ISI the officers who were involved in the February 2007 rape of Sabrin Al-Janabi, as well as the officers responsible for the killing and expulsion of the Sunni inhabitants of Tal'afar (a town in northwest Iraq) and those who participated in the rape of Sunni women in that town.

The video also gave the names of five high-ranking officers among the nine hostages:

Lieutenant Colonel 'Abbas 'Awad Hadi

Major Muhammad 'Adnan Ibrahim

Major 'Adnan Ibrahim Karim

Captain Hussein Qasim Jarf Hussein

First Lieutenant Rafid Farhan Fadel

The video can be viewed at http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ClipMediaID=826895&ak=null .

Below are images taken from the video: