posted on September 20, 2004 02:06:16 PM new
Posted on AOL News 9/20/04
American Hostage Killed in Iraq
DUBAI (Sept. 20) - A militant group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said on Monday it had beheaded an American hostage and it posted a video of the killing on the Internet.
The video, on an Islamist Web site, identified the hostage as Eugene Armstrong and showed a masked man sawing his head off with a knife.
A U.S. official said Armstrong's body had been recovered.
The video showed the banner of Zarqawi's Tawhid and Jihad group, which said it had kidnapped the hostage along with another American and a Briton and set a 48-hour deadline on Saturday to kill them.
In the video, five armed and masked men stood around the hostage, who was dressed in an orange overall typical of U.S. jails and associated around the world with images of Muslims detained at Guantanamo Bay.
After reading a lengthy statement, during which the hostage sat rocking on the floor, one of the gunmen decapitated him.
Tawhid and Jihad, in a video posted on the Internet on Saturday, said it would slit the throats of Armstrong, American Jack Hensley and Briton Kenneth Bigley -- unless Iraqi women were freed from the Abu Ghraib and Umm Qasr prisons by Monday.
The U.S. military says no women are being held in the two prisons specified, but that two are in U.S. custody and are accused of working on ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's weapons programme.
Zarqawi's group has said it was responsible for most of the bloodiest suicide bombings in Iraq since the fall of Saddam. It has beheaded several hostages, including U.S. telecoms engineer Nicholas Berg in May and South Korean driver Kim Sun-il in June.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (Sept. 20) - Insurgents fired on a U.S. patrol with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades Monday, killing an American soldier, the military said.
The soldier, who was serving with the Army's 1st Infantry Division, was killed near Sharqat, 168 miles north of Baghdad, a military statement said.
The name of the soldier was withheld pending notification of the next of kin.
posted on September 20, 2004 04:34:21 PM new
All the more reason to remove the restraints & allow the military to kick azz & clean house.
Hey, hey Ho, ho Kerry - sign the 1-8-0
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The person who has nothing for which he is willing
to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
--John Stuart Mill
