2004: Nick Berg, by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

ExecutedToday.com ^ | May 7, 2016 | Headsman

[CheshireTheCat]

Twenty-six-year-old American communications contractor Nick Berg was beheaded a hostage in Iraq on this date in 2004 — allegedly by the personal hand of Al-Qaeda in Iraq chief Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

[piasa]

And Zarqawi was also the first leader / emir of ISIS.

[elcid1970]

“On June 12, 2006, it was reported that an autopsy performed by the U.S. military revealed that the cause of death to Zarqawi was a blast injury to the lungs but he took nearly an hour to die.”

Taking out the garbage. Good that Zarqawi knew who killed him and why.

[piasa]

...Even into her 60s, [Kathleen] Namphy made annual solo hikes through the Mojave desert. In recent years, she has volunteered with Christian Peacemaker Teams in the West Bank and Iraq, sending back word of abuses in Abu Ghraib prison to the non-profit peace group months before the first reports surfaced in the press....

(Later, in Aug 2004 dies on a guided mountain climb near an air base in Iran with a bump on her head reportedly from a fall, climbing with some other Americans including a Chicago lawyer)

[piasa]

Zarqawi was alleged by Litvienko [sp?], who was poisoned with Polonium in the UK,
to have been trained by the FSB or KGB.

Zarqawi also murdered US diplomat Lawrence Foley.

Also, Zarqawi led ISIS and Saddam Hussein’s right hand man General swore an oath, along with his sons, to follow Zarqawi.

And Zarqawi allegedly attended 911 planning sessions in Iran according to a former Iranian member of MOIS, their intelligence agency. The air base near this mountain was also referenced in the guy’s testimony about Iran and al-Qaeda planning.

[piasa]

Iran mystery grows as hundreds search peak for PA hiker
KRT Wire ^ | Wed, Aug. 25, 2004 | BY S.L. WYKES
Posted on 8/26/2004, 5:24:36 AM by F14 Pilot

SAN JOSE, Calif. - (KRT) - Kathleen Namphy was dazed and bleeding. Her frightened interpreter called for help, and a group of hikers promised to stay with the 69-year-old retired Stanford lecturer as he ran down the snow-covered Iranian mountain.

But when rescuers reached the spot near the summit of Mt. Damavand more than four hours later, Namphy - and the hikers - had vanished.

Now hundreds of searchers, aided by Iranian Army helicopters, are scouring the three-mile high mountain near Tehran for any sign of the Palo Alto, Calif., woman.

Namphy, a veteran hiker who scaled Mt. Kilimanjaro last year, is believed to have died from a fall - or from exposure following the fall - while trekking the peak on Sunday.

“What’s the most difficult is that we don’t know what happened,” said Todd Sipe, a Chicago attorney who made the climb on Mt. Damavand with Namphy and another American.

“It’s a mystery,” he said, speaking by telephone from Iran, “and I’m worried that she was by herself.”

When Sipe last saw Namphy, she was having a snack and enjoying the spectacular view on the way up the mountain. The three Americans had set out Sunday morning with two mountain guides and Mehrdad Etemadi, who knew the mountain well, said Cyrus Etemadi, director of the Tehran tourist agency that arranged the trip....