 A militant videotape appeared on an Islamist Web site on Thursday, apparently showing the killing of a man described as the secretary of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. The tape, described as issued by a group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, shows Salem Jaafar al-Kanani speaking to the camera before he is shot several times while lying on the ground. Text in the video said the Al Qaeda Organisation of Holy War in Iraq was "implementing the ruling of God" against Kanani. "I advise all Iraqis, especially young people, not to back or cooperate with the occupying enemy," Kanani says before he is shot, adding that he had worked as an election organiser in Allawi's Iraqi National Accord party.| "I'm Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and I approved this message." |
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