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Kyre
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 Fri Oct 08, 2004 9:24 am Kenneth Bigley: Dead |
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| Quote: | Video shows Bigley being killed
Fri 8 October, 2004 15:12
By Fadel al-Badrani
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A video released by Muslim militants shows them beheading British hostage Kenneth Bigley, a Reuters witness says.
Bigley was shown making a statement as six militants stood behind him before one cut his head off with a knife.
Guerrilla sources in the rebel-held city of Falluja said earlier that he was killed on Thursday afternoon in Latifiya, a Sunni Muslim town southwest of Baghdad.
The tape showed Bigley wearing an orange jump suit of the type worn by detainees in U.S. prisons including the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
The 62-year-old engineer was kidnapped in Baghdad on September 16 by the Tawhid and Jihad Group which has beheaded two American hostages who were seized along with the Briton. Militants have launched a spate of kidnappings as part of attempts to undermine the U.S.-led coalition ahead of January elections.
The kidnappers had demanded U.S.-led forces in Iraq release women prisoners in Iraqi jails to spare Bigley's life. Washington says it holds only two women in Iraq, both top weapons scientists from the days of Saddam Hussein.
The British government says it is not holding any women.
Asked to comment on Friday on reports Bigley had been killed, his brother Paul told Reuters in London: "I have heard nothing at all. I have been optimistic and remain optimistic. I am praying this news is not true."
Iraqi Interior Ministry officials in Baghdad said they had no information on the report.
FATE OF FRENCH UNKNOWN
Two Western hostages are still held in Iraq -- French journalists Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot. They were held by a different group, the Islamic Army in Iraq.
Last week, Bigley appealed, in a video tape released by his kidnappers, to Prime Minister Tony Blair to meet the captor's demands to save his life.
"Tony Blair is lying, he is lying when he said he's negotiated. He has not negotiated. My life is cheap. He doesn't care about me," Bigley said while squatting behind metal meshing and looking distraught.
"I am begging you for my life. Have some compassion please," he said, his voice cracking with emotion.
Blair has said his government will not negotiate with the hostage takers.
Several groups and individuals have tried to negotiate Bigley's release. This week, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi appealed to the kidnappers to free him.
The United States says Zarqawi is its top enemy in Iraq and has launched several strikes on suspected strongholds for the al Qaeda-linked leader in recent months.
Zarqawi's group has claimed responsibility for many of the bloodiest suicide attacks in Iraq since Saddam Hussein was overthrown, and for killing several hostages.
Bigley was seized from a house in Baghdad along with two Americans, Eugene Armstrong and Jack Hensley last month. Tawhid and Jihad posted videos of the beheading of the Americans.
Some 30 foreign hostages are thought to have been killed in Iraq since a wave of kidnappings started in April. |
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Founder
Dominion Leader
Joined: 21 Jun 2004
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Location: Gamma Quadrant
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| Fri Oct 08, 2004 1:30 pm |
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Sad. I saw Blair make a statement about that just a little while ago. They also showed the man's mother sending a tape to those terrorist begging for her son's life.
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madlilnerd
Duchess of Dancemat
Joined: 03 Aug 2004
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Location: Slough, England
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| Fri Oct 08, 2004 2:59 pm |
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What's really sad is that those people had to shout that loudly to get a point across. If everyone listened to each other just a little bit more, than the world would be nicer. We should be able to resolve our differences without lobbing each others heads off. What are we, cavemen?
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Pah-Wraith
Sheikh
Joined: 30 Nov 2001
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Location: Londonistan.
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| Fri Oct 08, 2004 4:40 pm |
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Sick Bastards that did that  Astagfirullah.
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Sonic74205
Rear Admiral
Joined: 01 Feb 2004
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Location: England
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| Fri Oct 08, 2004 5:22 pm |
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I saw it on the news a while ago. It's ashame and is going to make things alot worse for Tony Blair now
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harrykims#1fan
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Joined: 08 Feb 2002
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Location: Leicester UK
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| Mon Oct 11, 2004 5:56 am |
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There's gonna be a lot of finger pointing and blair won't be in office much longer
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CJ Cregg
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| Mon Oct 11, 2004 10:56 am |
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| harrykims#1fan wrote: | | There's gonna be a lot of finger pointing and blair won't be in office much longer |
His ratings have gone up in recent months. There 7 points ahead of the *beep* concervatives and the lib dems are trailing. Labour is still the best and im gonna stick with them. The only thing i dont like is Iraq war. But i cant base my entire view on one war.
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