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American hostage killed in Iraq
(Reuters)
Updated: 2004-09-21 07:52
A video grab image on an Islamist internet
site shows American hostage Eugene Armstrong prior to his execution
September 20, 2004. A militant group headed by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi said on Monday it had beheaded an American hostage and posted a
video of the killing on the Internet.The video, identified the hostage as
Eugene Armstrong and showed a masked man sawing his head off with a knife.
[Reuters]
A video grab image on an Islamist internet
site shows American hostage Eugene Armstrong prior to his execution
September 20, 2004. [Reuters]
A video grab image on an Islamist internet
site shows American hostage Eugene Armstrong prior to his execution
September 20, 2004. [Reuters]
A hostage said to be American Eugene Armstrong is seen
in this video posted on the Internet by an Islamist website on September
18, 2004. A militant group headed by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
said on Monday it had beheaded an American hostage, identified as
Armstrong, and posted a video of the killing on an Islamist site. 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 in
central Baghdad last Thursday. The video was the first word on the three
men since a 48-hour execution deadline set by the group on Saturday
expired earlier in the day.[Reuters]
A video grab from Independent Television News
shows Craig Bigley (L), the son of British hostage Kenneth Bigley who is
being threatened with execution in Iraq, appealing to Britain's Prime
Minister Tony Blair to meet the demands of his kidnappers and save his
life, September 21, 2004. Bigley was being held hostage along with two
Americans Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong by the Tawhid and Jihad group
headed by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, which seized the three
Westerners from their home last Thursday. Armstrong was beheaded in a
gruesome murder shown on the Internet video over night. [Reuters] |
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