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By SARAH EL DEED
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CAIRO, Egypt — A video
posted Monday on a Web site
showed the beheading of a man
identified as American hostage
Eugene Armstrong.
The militant group led by Jor
danian terror mastermind Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi claimed re
sponsibility for the slaying and
said another hostage — either
another American or a Briton
held by the group — will be
killed in 24 hours unless all
Muslim women prisoners are re
leased from U.S. military jails.
“You, sister, rejoice. God’s
soldiers are coming to get you
out of your chains and restore
your purity by returning you to
your mother and father,” said a
militant reading a statement in
the video.
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
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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
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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
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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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