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| More on Zarqawi killing the second hostage |
| 2004-09-22 |
| An al-Qaida-linked group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed Tuesday to have killed the second of two American hostages - back-to-back slayings that have notched up the Jordanian militant's ruthless campaign of terror. The claim, posted on an an Islamic Web site, could not immediately be verified. Al-Zarqawi's group, Tawhid and Jihad, kidnapped two Americans - Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong - and Briton Kenneth Bigley on Thursday from a home that the three civil engineers shared in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood. Al-Zarqawi beheaded Armstrong, and the militants on Monday posted a gruesome video of the 52-year-old man's death. The new posting followed the passing of the militants' 24-hour deadline for the release of all Iraqi women from prison, and after anguished relatives in the United States and Britain begged for the lives of Bigley, 62, and Hensley, who would have marked his 49th birthday Wednesday. "We do not have confirmation as of now that the body that has been found is Jack Hensley. We are still hopeful at this time that Jack Hensley is still with us," Hensley's wife, Pati, said in a prepared statement read by family spokesman Jack Haley outside the family's home in Marietta, Ga. "The nation's zealous sons slaughtered the second American hostage after the end of the deadline," the first statement said. It was signed with the pseudonym Abu Maysara al-Iraqi, the name usually used on statements from al-Zarqawi's group. Claims on this Web site have proven to be accurate in the past. The brief statement did not give the name of the hostage killed. Several hours passed on Tuesday after the initial announcement with the promised video proof failing to appear. On Monday, by contrast, the video of Armstrong's killing was posted within an hour of the initial statement claiming he was dead. Late Tuesday, an expanded version of the statement saying a second American had been killed appeared on a different Web site and warned that Bigley would be the next to die. It did not contain any new deadline, and its authenticity was not known. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #7 Jabba I totally agree. They would NEVER take me hostage for even ten seconds and that goes for you bastard guerrillas in Colombia, too. I don't understand why any American would not be armed in Iraq and why they wouldn't shoot any attempted kidnappers. I mean, if you're walking down the street (which you shouldn't be doing in Iraq) or driving down the road and suddenly four men approach you, shoot at them! And for some crazy reason if they did get you...well fight them. Make them kill you OFF screen. Die like you've got a pair...not like some fucking wimp, making pig sounds from you're sliced throat. That guy Armstrong sounded like a squealing pig when he was having his throat cut. Sorry, but that's no way to die. |
| Posted by: Kentucky Beef 2004-09-22 4:57:35 PM |
| #6 It could have been so muuc worse than a gruesome death. They could have put panties on his head instead. Any Donk can tell you that. |
| Posted by: Michael 2004-09-22 6:13:28 AM |
| #5 How much of this shit do we have to tolerate before we drain the swamp? Let's get on with Falujah for pete's sake. |
| Posted by: Capt America 2004-09-22 4:38:29 AM |
| #4 I think Jabba was referring to arming all civilians in Iraq, a point which I agree with wholeheartedly. If I was a contractor there, there is no way that any Jihadi would take me alive to use in one of their snuff propaganda videos. |
| Posted by: Lux 2004-09-22 4:18:00 AM |
| #3 SH, and that would be bad cuz....? The only thing I'd see as a flip side would be that the rightfull award recipients may take some non-nitwitz with them. |
| Posted by: Zarathustra 2004-09-22 4:08:38 AM |
| #2 Jabba, we could have done that 40 years ago. Arming half the nitwits I know would just flood the Darwin Awards with nominations. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-09-22 3:38:06 AM |
| #1 Here's one thing we do immediately, require all Americans to wear .45's on their hips at all time and have AK's or M-16s. If attacked or attempted kidnapping, fight for your lives, you know what's coming if your taken. I would arm every person in the country. |
| Posted by: Jabba the Nutt 2004-09-22 2:26:13 AM |