Beheading: 2nd US victim killed
21/09/2004 20:43  - (SA)  

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Cairo, Egypt - An Islamic website posting on Tuesday claimed an al-Qaida related group slaughtered a second American hostage in Iraq, an announcement that came as the group's 24-hour deadline for meeting its demands ran out.

"The nation's zealous children slaughtered the second American hostage ... after the end of the deadline ... We will provide you with film of the slaughter soon, God willing," said the statement, posted under the pseudonym Abu Maysara al-Iraqi, who has posted past statements on behalf of Tawhid and Jihad, a militant group led by Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Although the brief statement did not identify by name who had been killed, the announcement came a day after graphic footage of the beheading of American construction engineer Eugene Armstrong.

That videotape had threatened to kill another of the three hostages abducted Thursday with Armstrong - either American Jack Hensley or Briton Kenneth Bigley.

The Tuesday night statement said the American had been killed.

- AP

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