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Alqaeda group in iraq beheads america civilian { May 11 2004 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5107738 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5107738 Al Qaeda-Linked Group Beheads American in Iraq Tue May 11, 2004 01:33 PM ET DUBAI (Reuters) - An Islamist web site showed a videotape Tuesday of an al Qaeda-linked group beheading an American and vowing more executions as revenge for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners. The poor quality tape showed a man sitting on the floor with five masked men behind him. After one of the masked men read out a statement, they pushed the bound man to the floor, cutting off his head and holding it aloft. It was not immediately possible to verify the authenticity of the tape carried on Muntada al-Ansar Islamist Web site. On the tape, the man identified himself as Nick Berg before the execution. "My name is Nick Berg, my father's name is Michael...I have a brother and sister, David and Sarah," said the man, who was shown bound and seated in a chair in the poor quality tape carried on Muntada al-Ansar Islamist Web site. It was not immediately possible to verify the authenticity of the tape in which masked men said the execution was revenge for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners. Photographs shown around the world of naked Iraqi prisoners stacked in a pyramid or positioned to simulate sex acts at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad have provoked international anger and become a serious setback to U.S. efforts to stabilize Iraq. President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair have both apologized and pledged to punish those responsible but both governments have come under pressure for senior ministers to be held responsible for the abuse.

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