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British hostage beheaded in Iraq
(Reuters)
Updated: 2004-10-11 07:58


A video grab image taken from an undated video posted on the internet, October 10, 2004, shows what appears to be British hostage Kenneth Bigley with a group of masked men at an unknown location. A video tape posted on the Internet on Sunday showed British hostage Kenneth Bigley making a final appeal to the British government to meet his captors' demands before he was beheaded by a militant group in Iraq. "Here I am again Mr (Tony) Blair and your government, very, very close to the end of my life. You don't appear to have done anything to help me", the 62-year-old engineer said before masked men beheaded him. [Reuters]

A video grab image taken from an undated video posted on the internet, October 10, 2004, shows what appears to be British hostage Kenneth Bigley with a group of masked men at an unknown location. [Reuters]

A video grab image taken from an undated video posted on the internet, October 10, 2004, shows Britains' Kenneth Bigley and Jack Hensley of the U.S., in a still photograph before they were taken hostage with Eugene Armstrong of the U.S. from their Baghdad home. The video tape posted on the Internet on Sunday goes on to show British hostage Kenneth Bigley making a final appeal to the British government to meet his captors' demands before he was beheaded by a militant group in Iraq. [Reuters]

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