ramy
08-07-04, 05:06 AM
Zarqawi is at it again beheading innocent civilians, fallujah needs to be flattened and trash like him need to be destroyed.
CAIRO, Egypt - New video aired Saturday purportedly shows an American man beheaded in Iraq (news - web sites) moments after he urges the United States to end its occupation.
The man on the tape identified himself as what sounds like Benjamin Danforth, from San Francisco. He sat on a chair in a dark room, his hands behind his back, trembling and rocking back and forth.
"We need to leave this country alone. We need to stop this occupation," he said, adding that he had been offered for exchange with prisoners in Iraq.
"We need to leave this country right now," he said. "Everyone's going to be killed this way."
The video then showed him beheaded with a large knife.
The video was titled "Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Slaughters an American." Zarqawi is an al-Qaida linked militant whose group, Tawhid and Jihad, has claimed responsibility for numerous deadly attacks across Iraq, including the beheadings of U.S. businessman Nicholas Berg, South Korean translator Kim Sun-il and a Bulgarian man, Georgi Lazov. Their beheadings were also filmed and the video posted in the Internet.
Unlike in previous videos of hostage killings, however, no militants were seen on the footage. Nothing else was known about the man and there had been no reports that anyone by his name had been captured.
He was also clad in a t-shirt, not the orange jumpsuits
The video also showed images of disfigured and injured people in Iraq. A recording of the Quran, Islam's holy book, played in the background.
The U.S. military in Iraq and the U.S. Embassy said they were unaware of the video and had no immediate comment.
Militants have abducted over 70 foreigners, many of them truck drivers entering Iraq with supplies for the U.S. military or contractors involved with Iraqi reconstruction efforts. At least eight of them have been killed, some by beheading.
The kidnappings are apart of an insurgent campaign aimed at forcing coalition forces out of the country and scaring foreign companies away.
CAIRO, Egypt - New video aired Saturday purportedly shows an American man beheaded in Iraq (news - web sites) moments after he urges the United States to end its occupation.
The man on the tape identified himself as what sounds like Benjamin Danforth, from San Francisco. He sat on a chair in a dark room, his hands behind his back, trembling and rocking back and forth.
"We need to leave this country alone. We need to stop this occupation," he said, adding that he had been offered for exchange with prisoners in Iraq.
"We need to leave this country right now," he said. "Everyone's going to be killed this way."
The video then showed him beheaded with a large knife.
The video was titled "Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Slaughters an American." Zarqawi is an al-Qaida linked militant whose group, Tawhid and Jihad, has claimed responsibility for numerous deadly attacks across Iraq, including the beheadings of U.S. businessman Nicholas Berg, South Korean translator Kim Sun-il and a Bulgarian man, Georgi Lazov. Their beheadings were also filmed and the video posted in the Internet.
Unlike in previous videos of hostage killings, however, no militants were seen on the footage. Nothing else was known about the man and there had been no reports that anyone by his name had been captured.
He was also clad in a t-shirt, not the orange jumpsuits
The video also showed images of disfigured and injured people in Iraq. A recording of the Quran, Islam's holy book, played in the background.
The U.S. military in Iraq and the U.S. Embassy said they were unaware of the video and had no immediate comment.
Militants have abducted over 70 foreigners, many of them truck drivers entering Iraq with supplies for the U.S. military or contractors involved with Iraqi reconstruction efforts. At least eight of them have been killed, some by beheading.
The kidnappings are apart of an insurgent campaign aimed at forcing coalition forces out of the country and scaring foreign companies away.