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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-10-04 08:51 AM
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Reuters posts Kenneth Bigley's final words to Tony Blair from video


A video grab image taken from an undated video posted on the internet, October 10, 2004, shows what appears to be British hostage Kenneth Bigley with a group of masked men at an unknown location, one of whom is approaching Bigley from behind with a knife. A video tape posted on the Internet on Sunday showed British hostage Kenneth Bigley making a final appeal to the British government to meet his captors' demands before he was beheaded by a militant group in Iraq (news - web sites). 'Here I am again Mr (Tony) Blair and your government, very, very close to the end of my life. You don't appear to have done anything to help me... I am a simple man who just wants to live a simple life with his family,' the 62-year-old engineer said before masked men beheaded him. REUTERS/HO

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ladybugg33 Donating Member (387 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-10-04 09:06 AM
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1. This is so, so sad. AS we "negotiate" with Sadr right now...why couldn't
this have been done to save the hostages lives. Their lives were not even worth the lives of two Iraqi women hostages.
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meti57b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-10-04 09:20 AM
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2. I don't know a good way to say this but I have to say it ....
I am heartbroken for these hostages and for their families.

STAY OUT OF IRAQ!!!!! IF the government sends you there as part of the military, staying out may be harder to do. BUT IF YOU HAVE A CHOICE .... STAY OUT OF IRAQ.
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