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AMERICAN 'BEHEADED IN IRAQ'
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| 7AUG04
| Sky News
Posted on 08/07/2004 2:44:28 AM PDT by familyop
A video purporting to show an American being beheaded in Iraq has been posted on a militant Islamic website.
The hostage said he was from San Francisco and urged American troops to leave Iraq, it is reported.
The al Qaeda-linked group led by the Jordanian Abu Musab al Zarqawi claimed responsibility for the killing.
The man named himself as Benjamin Ford on the video.
"My name is Benjamin Ford. I am from San Francisco, California," he says, dressed in a plain beige T-shirt as he sat on a chair.
"We need to leave this country right now. If we don't, everyone is gonna be killed in this way," he said.
The video then showed him being beheaded.
The United States this week said the US-led military coalition in Iraq would not make any more concessions to kidnappers after the Philippines withdrew its troops to win the release of a hostage.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; alqaedairaq; alqaida; benjamindanforth; benjaminford; benjaminvanderford; danforth; decapitation; ford; hoax; iraq; sanfrancisco; vanderford; zarqawi
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To: billclintonwillrotinhell
"If you're an American who knows you're about to be beheaded, do you spend your last moments on this planet blasting your own country?"
I mean no disrepect to the man or his family.....but he was from San Francisco.
81
posted on
08/07/2004 4:33:55 AM PDT
by
cincinnati65
(Just up the road a piece.......)
To: Sloth
It looks fake to me...looks rehearsed..who knows?
82
posted on
08/07/2004 4:34:21 AM PDT
by
Ros42
To: chainsaw
If it is a hoax, some of the possible consequences might be interesting. ...anti-defense propaganda, for example. That would really backfire, I would think.
83
posted on
08/07/2004 4:36:31 AM PDT
by
familyop
(Essayons)
To: Ros42
If this is a fake video and false claim of beheading, I wonder what the penalty would be for such a hoax.
84
posted on
08/07/2004 4:38:02 AM PDT
by
Quilla
To: Ros42
The intercutting of the pictures of Iraqi dead is a little artsy for terrorists, too.
85
posted on
08/07/2004 4:38:02 AM PDT
by
Sloth
(John Kerry: Frank Burns with Charles Winchester's pedigree.)
To: Sloth
Yep, it looks like a Maggot Moore cut and paste job
86
posted on
08/07/2004 4:39:39 AM PDT
by
Ros42
To: Quilla
I wonder what the penalty would be for such a hoax.I'd say an ass kicking as a bare minimum.
87
posted on
08/07/2004 4:39:52 AM PDT
by
csvset
To: familyop; Quilla
At the risk of being insensitive, I sent the guy an e-mail asking "Are you dead, or what?" :P
88
posted on
08/07/2004 4:39:58 AM PDT
by
Sloth
(John Kerry: Frank Burns with Charles Winchester's pedigree.)
To: GeronL
Maybe he went to Iraq to lock up the critical terrorist endorsement for his candidacy in the San Francisco Supervisor race.
89
posted on
08/07/2004 4:42:18 AM PDT
by
oblomov
To: Sloth
"At the risk of being insensitive, I sent the guy an e-mail asking "Are you dead, or what?" :P"
LOL! Let us know if you get a reply.
90
posted on
08/07/2004 4:42:36 AM PDT
by
familyop
(Essayons)
To: dandelion
I agree 100% with your statements. Also, your blog is very good.
91
posted on
08/07/2004 4:45:45 AM PDT
by
oblomov
To: Sloth
Actually, I think one of the more recent authenticated videos had some other video clips in it, too, plus a sort of musical score in the background of Arab loonies chanting. They're clearly trying to improve their production values. Probably getting coaching from Michael Moore.
If this is a fake, however, I'm puzzled as to what good they think it would do. Or what the guy from SF thought it would achieve (assuming he was a willing part of it and was not actually killed).
92
posted on
08/07/2004 4:47:10 AM PDT
by
livius
To: Sloth
LOL Coffee + Keyboard unintended consequences alert!
93
posted on
08/07/2004 4:51:31 AM PDT
by
visualops
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To: GeronL; Sloth
Why can't we keep crazy people out of a warzone?? They let me in, didn't they? Heeeheee
94
posted on
08/07/2004 4:57:52 AM PDT
by
Allegra
(It depends on what the meaning of "is" is......)
To: familyop
Just reported 7am on a Dallas station that this story is a hoax.
95
posted on
08/07/2004 4:59:34 AM PDT
by
engrpat
To: familyop
96
posted on
08/07/2004 5:01:52 AM PDT
by
mhking
To: livius; GeronL
This is so Nick Berg-ish, don't
you think? Start thinking of the
similarities - they are legion.
I wonder...
To: engrpat
Just reported 7am on a Dallas station that this story is a hoax.Heard it here just now, too. They quoted the alleged victim himself in San Francisco, and he would probably know.
98
posted on
08/07/2004 5:03:41 AM PDT
by
Steve0113
(Stay to the far right to get by.)
To: GeronL
"My name is Benjamin Ford Danforth Vanderford IV. Everyone make your time. You have no chance to survive."
99
posted on
08/07/2004 5:05:52 AM PDT
by
rabidralph
(If you can read this tagline, then stop.)
To: familyop
Waiting for concrete evidence. something doesn't fit here.
100
posted on
08/07/2004 5:06:13 AM PDT
by
marty60
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