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American Hostage Beheaded
« on: Sep 20^th, 2004, 2:59pm »

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Video shows American hostage beheaded
Group linked to al-Zarqawi threatens to kill 2 other captives

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- An Islamist Web site showed video of an American hostage in Iraq being beheaded by members of insurgent leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group.

The group gave a new 24-hour deadline for its demand that Muslim women be released from Iraqi prisons or its other hostages will be killed. The group previously released a video of three hostages -- included two Americans and a Briton.

On Saturday, the Arabic-language network Al-Jazeera broadcast video of the hostages with their abductors giving a 48-hour deadline for their demands to be met.

The United States said no women are in the two jails, Umm Qasr and Abu Ghraib, named by the militants. But it does hold two female "high-value detainees" -- former members of Saddam Hussein's regime -- at undisclosed locations. (Full story)

The wife of Jack Hensley, one of the three Westerners, begged for their safety after the video was broadcast Saturday.

"Please let them go," Patty Hensley said from her home near Atlanta, Georgia. "They need to come home." (Full story)

Jihad and Unification, which claims loyalty to al-Zarqawi, has taken responsibility for beheading U.S. businessman Nicholas Berg, South Korean translator Kim Sun-il and a Bulgarian hostage in Iraq.

The pace of terror groups taking hostages in Iraq has increased in recent weeks.

On Sunday, an influential Sunni Muslim cleric was captured and later killed.

Sheik Hazim al-Zaidi, the Sunni imam of Baghdad's al-Sajjad mosque, was kidnapped while leaving the temple in the capital's Sadr City, a heavily Shiite Muslim district, al-Zaidi spokesman Ammar al-Siger said.

His body was later delivered back to the mosque.

A second cleric, Sheik Mohammed Jado'ou, was gunned down Monday in southwest Baghdad's al-Baya'a district, al-Siger said.

Jado'ou was leaving prayers at his al-Kwather mosque when gunmen in a vehicle drove next to him and opened fire, the spokesman said.

The two clerics are members of the influential Sunni Committee of Muslim Scholars, a group that weighs in on key issues, provides religious interpretations and has helped with negotiating the release of hostages.

Al-Jazeera also broadcast video Saturday showing kidnappers who threatened to kill 10 employees of a Turkish company if their employer did not withdraw from Iraq within three days.

The company distanced itself from the United States on Monday, saying it has no business dealings with American companies or on U.S. military bases.

Vinsan General Manager Mehmet Akpinar said that the firm has been doing business in Iraq for 10 months and has sought out partnerships with Iraqis.

Akpinar and company spokeswoman Nalan Bayrak said initial reports that Vinsan was a joint U.S.-Turkish venture were untrue and that the company is wholly Turkish owned.

In addition, a previously unknown Islamic group claimed to have captured 15 members of the Iraqi national guard Sunday and threatened to kill them unless a jailed aide of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is released, according to a video aired on Al-Jazeera.

But second video aired Monday on Al-Jazeera claiming to show the release of the men, all dressed in white robes and carrying copies of the Koran. Iraqi officials said they were unaware of any missing guardsmen, and a spokesman for al-Sadr moved quickly to distance the cleric from the reported kidnappings.

Apparent decapitations
An Islamist militant Web site posted video Sunday purportedly showing the decapitation of three members of the Kurdish Democratic Party.

In the video, a group calling itself Ansar al-Sunna -- the same group that released video last month showing the purported killings of 12 Nepalese hostages -- said that members of the KDP and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan were traitors serving "Zionists" and "Christian crusaders" fighting against Islam.

The video statement said the three men, all truck drivers, were captured as they were hauling military vehicles near the town of Taji, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) north of Baghdad.

The group said it killed the men "to teach them a lesson they will never forget."

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« Reply #1 on: Sep 20^th, 2004, 4:38pm »

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« Reply #2 on: Sep 21^st, 2004, 1:47pm »

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oh what's a president to do??

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« Reply #3 on: Sep 21^st, 2004, 4:39pm »

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This is a horrid solution but does everyone remember when Kadafi kept causing trouble? President Reagan bombed! If the USA has to send in bombers to take out that whole area, then do it, whatever the consequenses.

This is not being heartless as I have a lot of heart and never wanted this war, but this needs to stop and stop now whatever it takes! These innocent men working over there to make life easier for their families shouldn't have to go through this torture, and torture it is!

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« Reply #4 on: Sep 21^st, 2004, 6:58pm »

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They've beheaded a second hostage. Cry

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« Reply #5 on: Sep 22^nd, 2004, 12:22am »

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I have a hard time working up ANY respect for a religion or group of people who enspouse, stand by and do nothing, tolorate, condone or participate in the kidnapping and SLAUGHTER of civilians. I am coming to the conclusion that the people of Iraq don't deserve freedom as we know it. Maybe what we need to do is stick around until January, let them have their elections and let them sink or swim.
We should leave and take our checkbook with us!

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