Reports: British Hostage Killed in Iraq

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=716&e=4&u=/ap/20041008/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_britain_hostage


The head of news at Abu Dhabi TV in the United Arab Emirates, Nart Bouran, said the report was based on "informed sources" in Baghdad, but he would not comment when asked if a videotape had been received. The broadcast did not say when Bigley was supposed to have been killed.


In Britain, Sky News TV quoted an unidentified British government source as saying Bigley was dead.


Asked about the Sky News TV report, a spokesman for British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites)'s office in Downing Street said: "We're aware of the reports but can give no further information."


Bigley's brother, Paul, who lives in Amsterdam, said: "I have heard these reports and I am looking into them right now."

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1. Reuters:Video Shows British Hostage Being Beheaded in Iraq

You could have stopped it tony.... :(


Bigley was shown making a statement as six militants stood behind him, before one cut his head off with a knife.


Guerrilla sources in the rebel-held city of Falluja said earlier that he was killed on Thursday afternoon in Latifiya, a Sunni Muslim town southwest of Baghdad.


The tape showed Bigley wearing an orange jump suit of the type worn by detainees in U.S. prisons including the detention center at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20041008/ts_nm/iraq_britain_hostage_dc

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2. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=891627