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Yet another American beheaded. This is the sickest thing ive ever seen.
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| Floorwhore |
Taken from HERE
september 20, 2004
Video shows beheading of hostage
American contractor Eugene Armstrong was taken hostage last Thursday
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD - A video posted today on a Web site showed the beheading of a man identified as American construction contractor Eugene Armstrong. The militant group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility for the slaying and said another hostage - either an American or a Briton - would be killed in 24 hours.
In other violence, gunmen in Baghdad assassinated two clerics from a powerful Sunni Muslim group opposed to the U.S. presence in Iraq.
The video of the execution surfaced soon after the expiration of a 48-hour deadline set earlier by al-Zarqawi's Tawhid and Jihad group for the beheading of the three employees of a construction company abducted Thursday in Baghdad - Armstrong, American Jack Hensley and Briton Kenneth Bigley.
A militant whose voice resembled that of al-Zarqawi read a statement in the video saying the next hostage would be killed in 24 hours unless all Muslim women prisoners are released from U.S. military jails.
"You, sister, rejoice. God's soldiers are coming to get you out of your chains and restore your purity by returning you to your mother and father," he said before grabbing the hostage, seated at his feet, and cutting his throat.
In Washington, a U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Armstrong's body had been recovered, but the official would provide no information about where or when it had been recovered.
The taped beheading appears to be of Armstrong, but the CIA is still reviewing the tape to be sure, the official said.
Tawhid and Jihad - Arabic for Monotheism and Holy War - has claimed responsibility for killing at least six hostages, including Armstrong and another American, Nicholas Berg, who was abducted in April. The group has also said it is behind a number of bombings and gun attacks.
In a video Saturday setting the 48-hour deadline, the militants demanded the release of female Iraqi prisoners detained by the U.S. military. The military says it is holding two women as security detainees in Iraq, including Dr. Rihab Rashid Taha, a scientist who became known as Dr. Germ for helping Iraq make weapons out of anthrax.
The militant on the video called U.S. President George W. Bush "a dog" and addressed him, saying, "Now, you have people who love death just like you love life. Killing for the sake of God is their best wish, getting to your soldiers and allies are their happiest moments, and cutting the heads of the criminal infidels is implementing the orders of our lord."
Armstrong grew up in Hillsdale, Mich., but left the area around 1990. His brother, Frank, still lives there. Armstrong's work in construction took him around the world; he lived in Thailand with his wife before going to Iraq.
The other American hostage, Jack Hensley, 48, makes his home in Marietta, Ga., with his wife Patty and their 13-year-old daughter. Kidnapped with the Americans was Briton Kenneth Bigley, 62. All three worked for Gulf Services Co. of the United Arab Emirates.
Armstrong's slaying came on the heels of the beheading - apparently by another group of Sunni insurgents - of three Kurdish militiamen taken hostage in the north.
More than 100 foreigners have been kidnapped in Iraq, some for lucrative ransoms, and at least 26 of them have been executed. At least five other westerners are currently being held hostage here, including an Iraqi-American man, two female Italian aid workers and two French reporters.
Kidnappers released a group of 18 abducted Iraqi National Guard members after renegade Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called for their release, an al-Sadr aide Nail al-Kabi told The Associated Press.
Earlier, U.S. warplanes struck in Fallujah, where they have frequently attacked hideouts of the Tawhid and Jihad. Doctors reported three people killed.
In the northern city of Mosul, a car packed with explosives blew up in a residential neighbourhood, killing its two passengers and a passer-by, police at Al-Salaam hospital said. Police had been searching for the vehicle, which was reported stolen earlier Monday.
Insurgents attacked a U.S. patrol, killing an American soldier, near Sharqat, 270 kilometres north of Baghdad.
It was not immediately known who was behind the gunning-down of two Sunni clerics Sunday night and Monday in Baghdad.
The two clerics belonged to the Association of Muslim Scholars, a grouping of conservative clerics that opposes the U.S. presence in Iraq and has emerged as a powerful representative of Iraq's Sunni minority.
The association is believed to have contacts with Sunni insurgents, though it denies any links with them. It has interceded often in the past to win the release of foreign hostages, and militant groups have asked the association for a religious ruling on whether kidnappings and killing of hostages are permitted.
Gunmen shot and killed Sheik Mohammed Jadoa al-Janabi, a member of the association, as he entered a mosque in Baghdad's predominantly Shiite al-Baya neighbourhood to perform noon prayers Monday, the association said.
The previous night, gunmen kidnapped Sheik Hazem al-Zeidi and two of his bodyguards as he left a mosque in another largely Shiite neighbourhood of Baghdad, Sadr City. Al-Zeidi was killed and the bodyguards were released Monday, the association said.
A few clerics from the association have been killed in the past - most recently in February. But the motives in those and the latest slayings have been unclear.
There have been tit-for-tat killings of Shiite and Sunni clerics in the past year, widely believed to be motivated by sectarian sentiments. |
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| Floorwhore |
WARNING: This is the most disturbing thing i think i have ever seen with my own two eyes. I CANNOT believe that one human being could do this to another.
LINK TO VIDEO
R.I.P. Eugene Armstrong |
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| Matt |
| quote: | Originally posted by Floorwhore
WARNING: This is the most disturbing thing i think i have ever seen with my own two eyes. I CANNOT believe that one human being could do this to another.
VIDEO |
no video please... it's just not necessary..... |
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| tha_broad |
| I saw this the other day. I had to cover my eyes and watch it on mute, so very VERY disturbing :( |
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| Floorwhore |
| quote: | Originally posted by tha_broad
I saw this the other day. I had to cover my eyes and watch it on mute, so very VERY disturbing :( |
You think that things are ed up in the world, but then something like this comes along. Its truly the most evil act ive ever seen. |
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| dEsidEL |
RIP
i can see this thread becoming very political very quickly ..
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| Floorwhore |
| quote: | Originally posted by Matt
no video please... it's just not necessary..... |
Neither is this act. |
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| DigitalMP |
Do you know what's even worse?
Seeing a headline like this in the news and not being surprised.
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| maxtuh |
WTF IS THIS WORLD COMING TO?
YUCK, the video is completly disturbing.
I felt like throwing up.
These morons deserve to die. |
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| Floorwhore |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigitalMP
Do you know what's even worse?
Seeing a headline like this in the news and not being surprised.
:( |
I felt the same way. Until i saw the video. Those cowardly s. |
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| rabbitjoker |
| F'ing savages... |
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| Pixiechick |
I really don't know what to write... that is by far one of the most horrible things I have ever watched.
RIP |
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