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British hostage pleads for life in Internet video
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-09-24 02:11
A video grab from an Islamist website shows
Kenneth Bigley pleading for Prime Minister Tony Blair to intervene. Iraq
's hostage crisis deepened as Islamists who beheaded two Americans let a
Briton make a desperate videotaped plea for his life, while other
extremist groups claimed to have executed two women Italian aid
workers.[AFP] |
A video grab from an Islamist website shows
Kenneth Bigley pleading for Prime Minister Tony Blair to intervene. Iraq
's hostage crisis deepened as Islamists who beheaded two Americans let a
Briton make a desperate videotaped plea for his life, while other
extremist groups claimed to have executed two women Italian aid workers.
{AFP] |
Men at a Baghdad, Iraq, barbershop watch the
television broadcast of a man identifying himself as British hostage
Kenneth Bigley pleading with British Prime Minister Tony Blair to help
save his life, Thursday Sept. 23, 2004. Two American hostages who were
kidnapped with Bigley were beheaded earlier in the week by their captors.
[AP] |
British hostage Kenneth Bigley's son Craig (L)
and brother Philip speak to the media in Liverpool. Walton, a quiet suburb
of Liverpool, northwest England, was a sombre place as the community
prepared to hear the worst about one of its native sons, an engineer
captured by Islamic extremists in Iraq. [AFP] |
British hostage Kenneth Bigley is seen in this
video posted on the Internet September 18, 2004. With time running out to
save a British hostage in Iraq. [Reuters] |
British hostage Kenneth Bigley, 62, poses with
his Thai wife Sombat during their wedding ceremony in a family photo taken
in 1998 in Thailand. The Thai wife of British hostage Kenneth Bigley,
threatened with execution by captors in Iraq, issued a tearful plea for
his life on September 23, 2004. 'I pray for your mercy now and beg you to
release Ken so that I may be with him again and so that he may also be
reunited with his family in England,' Sombat Bigley said in a statement
she read to reporters between heaving sobs.
[Reuters] |
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