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In Washington, a U.S. offi cial, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Armstrong’s body had been recovered, but the official would provide no in formation 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. The 9-minute tape was post ed on a Web site used by Is lamic militants after a 48-hour deadline set earlier by the group for the beheading of the three Afghan escapes employees of a construction company abducted Thursday in Baghdad — Armstrong, Ameri can Jack Hensley and Briton Kenneth Bigley. The tape showed a man seated on the floor, blindfolded and wearing an orange jump suit with his hands bound be hind his back. Five militants dressed in black stood behind the man, four of them armed with assault rifles, with a black Tawhid and Jihad banner on the wall behind them. The militant in the center read out a statement, as the hostage rocked back and forth and side to side where he sat. After finishing the state ment, the militant pulled a knife, rushed to the hostage from be hind and cut his throat until the head was severed. The victim gasped loudly as blood poured from his neck. His killer held up the head at one point, and placed the head on top of the body. “The fate of the first infidel was cutting off the head before your eyes and ears. You have a 24-hour opportunity. Abide by our demand in full and release all the Muslim women, otherwise the head of the other will follow this one,” the speaker said. He appeared to indicate the hostages would be killed one at a time and did not specify whether Hensley or Bigley ASSOCIATED PI! Masked men stand behind a man identified as American construction tractor Eugene Armstrong, moments before he was beheaded ini in this image from video made available on an Islamic Web site, Monde would be next. The voice of the militant sounded like past recordings at tributed to al-Zarqawi, whose Tawhid and Jihad group claimed responsibility for kidnapping Armstrong along with another American and a Briton. The militants had demand ed 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 1 Germ” for helping Iraq m weapons out of anthrax. The militant on the vii called President Bushed; and addressed him, sap “Now, you have people * love death just like youfc life. Killing for the sake God is their best wish, gen: to your soldiers and alliesi their happiest moments, s cutting the heads of thecni nal infidels is implemem the orders of our lord." vice president Karzai Bu Ge ur Bush, vade 1 world with ti ment a spread is to pi The Allawi ter Bus of bly are wir Iraq, v\ as insu second Of i “We w rorists our fat< Yet ease w Genera called it lackt warned around “No said Ti and kil said In roadside bombing By Stephen Graham THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KABUL, Afghanistan — A deputy to U.S.-backed President Hamid Karzai escaped a roadside bombing in northern Afghanistan on Monday, just four days after Karzai himself was targeted as he tried to hit the campaign trail for land mark Oct. 9 elections. Meanwhile, two U.S. soldiers and several militants were killed in fire fights in the vola tile southeast Monday, further underlining fragile security ahead of the vote. Nayiamatullah Shahrani, one of four Af ghan vice presidents, and Urban Develop ment Minister Gul Agha Sherzai were on their way to inspect a road project in north ern Kunduz province when the explosion rocked their convoy, police said. The remote-controlled bomb, hidden at a roadside in Khanabad district, damaged a car in the 20-vehicle convoy that was carrying Shahrani’s bodyguards, slightly hurting one of them with flying glass, Police Chief Mu- taleb Beg said. Beg blamed “enemies” for the attack, but didn't elaborate. No one was immediately arrested. The incident was confirmed by an aide to Karzai — who was in New York for this week’s United Nations annual session of the General Assembly. On Thursday, Karzai aborted his first ma jor campaign event when suspected Taliban fired a rocket at the U.S. military helicopter carrying him to a school opening in south eastern Afghanistan. No one was hurt in that attack, but it under scored the threat against Karzai and his U.S.- backed government in the face of a stubborn 2e(dhrrp iota / r By Taliban-led insurgency. More than 9()0 people, including tion workers, have died in political viota across Afghanistan so far this year, andf! ficials are braced for more bloodshedinit run-up to the balloting — Afghanistan's!! direct presidential vote, supposed to capii three-year international drive to stabilize! war-tom country. Most of the violence has come inthesoi and east, where the U.S. military repoit: four separate skirmishes Monday. The two U.S. soldiers were killed ina fight with insurgents in Paktika, a province where al-Qaida fighters as Taliban rebels are believed to operate. Two other Americans were sliefe wounded and six Afghan government trot! u JJ>can were evacuated to a U.S. base fortreatmq a military statement said. 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