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Islamic Group Beheads Assyrian Priest, Crucifies 14 Year Old Boy in
North Iraq

Mosul, Iraq (AINA) -- On Monday, October 9, a prominent Assyrian (also
known as Chaldean and Syriac) priest, Fr. Paulos Iskander (Paul
Alexander), was kidnapped by an unknown Islamic group. His ransom was
posted at either $250,000 or $350,000. This group had demanded that
signs be posted once again on his church apologizing for the Pope's
remarks as a condition for negotiations to begin.


Father Alexander was beheaded on Wednesday.


An email from a priest in Sweden, Adris Hanna, describes the Muslim
terror campaign against the Christians in Iraq:


The Syriac-Orhtodox priest Paulos Iskandar was kidnapped this Monday,
October 9, and beheaded today Wednesday October 11.


The Bishop in Mosul wrote me an email tonight and told me that the
funeral will be held in Mosul tomorrow.


Christians are living a terrified life in Mosul and Baghdad. Several
priests have been kidnapped, girls are being raped and murdered and a
couple of days ago a fourteen year old boy was crucified in the
Christian neighborhood Albasra.


I have also spoken to a group of nuns that were robbed and treated
brutally on their way between Baghdad to Amman in Jordan.


The murder of father Paulus is the final blow for Christians, and now
only hell is expected for the Christians of Iraq.


We the oriental Christians in Sweden and the rest of the Western world
must protest against the genocide. We must do what we can to stop the
rape, threats, hatred, robberies, murders... We must do something.


These latest murders continue an escalating pattern
(http://www.aina.org/news/20060924135352.htm,
http://www.aina.org/news/20060924135137.htm,
http://www.aina.org/news/20060917014616.htm) of attacks against Iraq's
Christians. On October fourth a bomb ripped through an Assyrian
neighorhood, killing 9 (AINA 10-11-2006).


Regards Bruun