 ISTANBUL: British hostage Kenneth Bigley was buried near the restive Iraqi town of Fallujah after he was beheaded by his captors, the Turkish lawyer of a suspected Al Qaeda operative who claims a role in the killing said yesterday. "Kenneth Bigley is buried near the entrance to Fallujah city ... As you enter the city on the left there is a ditch, and his body is in this ditch," lawyer Osman Karahan told a Press conference in his office here.
The lawyer distributed to reporters copies of a rough hand-drawn sketch of the ditch which he said was drawn by his client, Louai Sakka, a Syrian national and alleged associate of Al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Musab Al Zarqawi. "This information came from my client and other sources and I have no doubt of its authenticity," Karahan said.
| But he had nothing to do with anything of it, of course. |
Karahan said Sakka was "in charge of the team that held and interrogated Kenneth Bigley" as well as the Islamic trial which convicted the Briton. But Sakka played no part in Bigley's execution, Karahan argued.
"There is no connection between my client and the execution," Karahan said. "We do not know who actually carried out the execution."
| "I know nothing! Tell them, Hogan!" |
Bigley, a 62-year-old engineer, was kidnapped in Baghdad on September 16, 2004, along with two Americans who were subsequently killed. |