US Hostage "Beheaded" in Iraq

Politics | September 20, 2004, Monday // 00:00

A website posting claimed that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group has beheaded one of the American hostages in Iraq.

The short statement, posted by a website contributor who has put up past statements signed in the name of Tawhid and Jihad, said that al-Zarqawi, "God protect him, has beheaded the first American.

"The group will next behead the others", reads on the statement.

On Monday evening the execution deadline for two Americans and a Briton kidnapped by militants has expired with no word on their fate. A group linked to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said in footage posted on the Internet on Saturday it would slit the throats of the two Americans and the Briton unless Iraqi women were freed from Abu Ghraib and Umm Qasr jails in 48 hours.

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