Pictures capture Iraq attackers in act

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,7977920%255E2703,00.html

Intelligence agencies are trying to track down the "smiling killer" - believed to be a former Iraqi secret service agent - behind the November 12 suicide bombing of the Italian police headquarters in Nasiriyah that left 19 people dead.

Italian newspapers yesterday published photographs taken immediately after the attack in the southern Iraqi city. Two men can be seen walking away from the scene, one of whom is smiling. He has been identified as Kassem al-Sadoun, a former Iraqi intelligence operative loyal to Saddam Hussein.

In a separate development, a video showing a masked militant firing the missile that hit a DHL civilian cargo jet over Baghdad at the weekend was delivered to a French journalist yesterday.

The six-minute footage, received by Sara Daniel, correspondent of Paris-based weekly Le Nouvel Observateur, shows 10 militants, with their faces concealed by chequered keffiyeh headdresses or white scarves, carrying out the attack from scrubland south of the capital. The shoulder-launched missile is seen shooting up into the sky after being fired by one of the cell and then homing in on the Airbus-300 freighter. The vapour trail makes a sharp U-turn as the missile homes in on the infra-red or radio signals from the Baghdad-to-Dubai courier flight.

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[cosmicdot]

1. hopefully, a link to the stills will emerge

not sure why Murdoch's paper didn't secure copies to print ..

I'm not sure what to make of this.

Is it chilly at night? faces concealed by chequered keffiyeh headdresses or white scarves

based on "10 militants", they're guilty

Don't go around 'smiling' - you'll be tagged a militant, a terrorist, and/or an insurgent???

I can't help being a cynic in these times.