American civilian before being beheaded

Updated: 2004-05-12 10:03

A frame grab taken from website video footage May 11, 2004, shows a man, who identified himself as Nick Berg of Philadelphia (C) seated in front of his five masked captors moments before he was executed. Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq beheaded an American civilian and vowed more killings in revenge for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners, an Islamist Web site said on Tuesday. [Reuters] A frame grab taken from website video footage May 11, 2004, shows a man, who identified himself as Nick Berg of Philadelphia (C) seated in front of his five masked captors moments before he was executed. Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq beheaded an American civilian and vowed more killings in revenge for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners, an Islamist Web site said on Tuesday. [Reuters]

A frame grab taken from website video footage May 11, 2004, shows the man identified himself as Nick Berg of Philadelphia. [Reuters]

An undated handout family snapshot shows U.S. civilian Nick Berg. The family of Berg, the American civilian worker beheaded in Iraq by Islamic militants, said on Tuesday they were devastated by his death. In a statement read on the lawn of the Berg family's West Chester, Pennsylvania, neighbor and friend Bruce Hauser described Berg, 26, as 'a great kid.' [Reuters]

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