Brit Begs For His Life

[Bronco_Beerslug]

Ken Bigley begs PM Tony Blair for his life in video.

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By KIM HOUSEGO, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Authorities insisted they won't give in to militants' demands to free female Iraqi prisoners despite the broadcast of a videotape that showed a tearful British hostage begging Britain to save his life.

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Left to right, Stanley Bigley (Kenneth Bigley's brother) Craig (Kenneth's son) and Philip (Kenneth's brother) speak to the media in Liverpool, England, Wednesday Sept.22 2004 after a video was released on a Islamic website of British hostage in Iraq (news - web sites) Kenneth Bigley making a direct plea to Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) to save his life. (AP Photo/Colin Lane/Liverpool Daily Post and Echo/Pool)

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British hostage Kenneth Bigley, 62, poses with his Thai wife Sombat during their wedding ceremony in a family photo taken in 1998 in Thailand. The Thai wife of British hostage Kenneth Bigley, threatened with execution by captors in Iraq (news - web sites), issued a tearful plea for his life on September 23, 2004. 'I pray for your mercy now and beg you to release Ken so that I may be with him again and so that he may also be reunited with his family in England,' Sombat Bigley said in a statement she read to reporters between heaving sobs.



The captive, Kenneth Bigley, appealed to British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) to intervene. "I think this is possibly my last chance," he said. "I don't want to die."

Bigley's brother, Paul, meanwhile, accused the United States of sabotaging efforts to save his brother. He told the BBC on Thursday that his hopes were raised when Iraqi ministers said one of the female prisoners could be freed. But soon afterward, a U.S. Embassy spokesman ruled out any immediate release.

"That was a shadow of light in a big, long, dark, damp, filthy, cold tunnel. Now this has been sabotaged," Paul Bigley said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=1&u=/ap/20040923/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[Mile High Shack]

poor man, I just can't imagine dying that way

I'd rather go out in a fight....but again, I sit here drinking coffee at my desk, sure is a lot easier to say that.

[-Slap-]

It sure is.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Government (Bush or Blair) response:

"We won't negotiate with terrorists (unless it's to make a lot of money for ourselves and our cronies, that is.")

[watermock]

How dare you. We are dealing with Satanic Cults. Are you proposing we start dealing with these animals to encourage them?

You think it's easy for people to know that these Satanistic Criminals are going to lop of heads of civilians?

You might get scared, but all it does to me is steel my resolve. No, I'm no soldier, but we have the tools we need to make their hairy butts smell like fried rats on a pike.

All we are waiting for is the elections, and a plea from the new government to clean out the rat nests, and your going to see hell on wheels while we wipe out around 50,000 in a week with the new government's blessing.

Just watch and wait.

[Crushaholic]

Damn cowards continue to take innocent civilians... :moon:

[Bronco_Beerslug]

Horrible news again!

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British Hostage Beheaded in Iraq, Video Shows
By Maher Nazih

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - British hostage Ken Bigley has been beheaded in Iraq (news - web sites), three weeks after he was kidnapped by militants demanding the release of women held by U.S.-led forces, a video seen by Reuters showed on Friday.
Guerrilla sources in the rebel-held city of Falluja said earlier that Bigley, who was being held by a militant group led by alleged al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was killed on Thursday afternoon in Latifiya, southwest of Baghdad.

In the video, seen by a Reuters witness in the office of a foreign news organization in Baghdad, the 62-year-old engineer was shown making a statement as six militants stood behind him, before one cut his head off with a knife.

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.
Commenting on earlier reports of Bigley's death, a British Foreign Office spokesman told Reuters in London: "We cannot corroborate the reports ... We are in close touch with Mr. Bigley's family at this difficult time."
Britain's Sky TV, however, quoted British government sources as saying Bigley had been killed.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&u=/nm/20041008/ts_nm/iraq_britain_hostage_dc_9

[baja]

Government (Bush or Blair) response:

"We won't negotiate with terrorists (unless it's to make a lot of money for ourselves and our cronies, that is.")

You hurt your overall arguements with untimely posts like this. Sometimes you just need to STFU.

This is one of them.