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Terror Group Beheads American in Iraq
Politics | May 11, 2004, Tuesday // 00:00
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US administration claims that it had warned Nick Berg of the risks to go to Iraq. In a video footage cast on a militant web site the US hostage was beheaded with a knife by his kidnappers. Photo by WN.
An Islamic militant website showed a video purporting to show the beheading of an American in Iraq.
The video - the contents of which could not be verified - showed five men in headscarves and ski masks cutting off the man's head with a knife.
Moments earlier, the victim said he was an American from Philadelphia. The group, thought to be linked to al-Qaeda, said it was carrying out the execution in retaliation for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers.
The poor-quality tape - shown on the Muntada al-Ansar site - began with the victim, bound and wearing an orange jumpsuit, sitting on the floor with five masked men behind him. The victim identified himself as Nick Berg, a US contractor whose body was found near a highway overpass in Baghdad on Saturday.
One of the masked men read out a statement, saying they had offered to exchange the man for inmates of Abu Ghraib prison but the coalition authorities refused.
They then pulled the man to the side and put a knife to his neck.
The video - the contents of which could not be verified - showed five men in headscarves and ski masks cutting off the man's head with a knife.
Moments earlier, the victim said he was an American from Philadelphia. The group, thought to be linked to al-Qaeda, said it was carrying out the execution in retaliation for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers.
The poor-quality tape - shown on the Muntada al-Ansar site - began with the victim, bound and wearing an orange jumpsuit, sitting on the floor with five masked men behind him. The victim identified himself as Nick Berg, a US contractor whose body was found near a highway overpass in Baghdad on Saturday.
One of the masked men read out a statement, saying they had offered to exchange the man for inmates of Abu Ghraib prison but the coalition authorities refused.
They then pulled the man to the side and put a knife to his neck.
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