Posted on 09/20/2004 1:01:10 PM PDT by CFW
The Associated Press - MARIETTA, Ga.
Family friends were seen coming and going from John Hensley's house, as news spread that a Web site posting had claimed one of the American hostages in Iraq was beheaded Monday.
An al-Qaida linked group threatened in a videotape Saturday to behead two Americans and a Briton within 48 hours. The videotape was the first word on the fate of the 48-year-old Hensley, fellow American Eugene Armstrong and Briton Kenneth Bigley since the three construction workers were kidnapped from their Baghdad home Thursday.
The claim in the posting, which did not identify which man was killed, could not be verified.
The short statement was posted by a Web site contributor using the pseudonym Abu Maysara al-Iraqi, who has put up past statements signed in the name of the Tawhid and Jihad group. The posting promised video proof "soon."
Al-Zarqawi "has beheaded the first American. The group will next behead the others," the statement said.
A police barricade was set up on the leafy suburban street in Marietta that ends with a cul-de-sac, as local officers stopped all vehicles, trying to prevent reporters and television cameras from getting any closer to the Hensleys' home Monday afternoon. Dozens of media vehicles were parked along the otherwise quiet street leading up to the checkpoint near Hensley's modest ranch home.
Earlier in the day, Jack Hensley's wife, Patty, told ABC's "Good Morning America" in a taped interview that her husband had always been optimistic about his work in Iraq and in his safety. But that had changed during the past week or so, she said.
Security guards who had been with the workers in Iraq morning and night stopped showing up for work, she said. She says her husband told her, "If they did, they had an excuse and they needed to leave."
On NBC's "Today" show Monday, Ty Hensley said his brother, who went to Iraq in February after failing to find construction work and needed money to support his family, recently wrote home saying he was being "staked out" and that the guards feared for their own safety.
"One told him, 'I have to leave this work, or they will kill me,'" Ty Hensley said.
Patty Hensley also appeared on Al-Jazeera television Monday, saying she believed her husband, like all Americans in Iraq, was there to help the Iraqi people.
Patty Hensley told ABC that the couple raised their 13-year-old daughter to believe that everybody in the world is good.
"Her first question to me is, `Why would anybody hurt my daddy?' I can't explain," she said.
In Marietta, Hensley's family has asked for privacy. A family spokesman who answered the phone at the Hensley home declined comment to The Associated Press.
As I have been writing for some time, it is time to demonstrate directly to these insurgents how to properly behead one's opponent.
EVIL........pure unadulterated EVIL has no explanation. Please don't look for the REASON why, because there is NONE.
God Bless you and your family. I pray this is NOT true.
Be strong America-- and turn the sadness into strength.
Gee. I am a mile out of Marietta Square. We could hook up two cans and have a nice conversation.
I didn't know I lived so close to a famous FReeper. : )
In battle, we of the West also used to do this. There were some fine US Army swords.
It should be mandatory viewing for all who are against this war. Only then will they realize what this war is about.
Well, besides BUCKHEAD, of course. : )
Everyone should see this video - this is what the Islamofascists want to do to each and every American. There is a link on another thread. It was much worse than the Berg video and leaves no room for the questions that video brought forth. It is utterly gruesome but it should be seen.
This one hit home....I'm in Roswell....
NeverGore :^)
Why aren't we finding out where these atrocities are being done, who's doing them, and bombing the heck out of everything within 50 miles of the site??????????? Why are we allowing them to keep doing this?
I know what the good book says about turning the other cheek but how can you do that when muslims cut your whole head off. To use a line from a popular movie; "Pull out and nuke the entire site from orbit. Its the only way to be sure". All I ever needed to know about islam I learned on 9/11/01.
So very sorry. They are absolute monsters.
We have to find a way to counter these actions. Surely there is a way.
May God be with all the hostages and help us find them in time. May God help us find the answer in countering these tactics. Something has to be done.
I guess it's time to accept the fact that being taken alive is worse than being killed fighting them off. I would imagine that independent contractors are going to either need to pull out, or arm themselves to the teeth and go down fighting when these thugs attempt to take them.
http://ogrish.com/movies/ogrish-dot-com-eugene-armstrong-beheading-video.wmv
I just had s a spineless liberal that I know email me a "Joke DOll" of George Bush in a flight suit. On the bottom left it said the doll contained and extra set of "Blood Stained Hands". I was so pissed so I download the latest video, renamed it "A Real Hero" and emailed to the a$$.
What happened to all those cheering crowds that welcomed us?
Jimmy Carter type Liberals.
Why should any of us watch it - that is why they film it. They are proud to shock us with their evil deeds.
I don't think it should be watched. All of these people are of the same cloth as a Saddam. Lovers of torture, evil, cruelty. How in the world do people come to that point. Are they on any drugs that have destroyed their brains?
I saw it. I had to. Not out of morbid curiosity, but to anger me. I am angry. We can not cut and run as John Kerry wants us to. We have to do something about these people. I'm shaking from watching it. I only now understand over the past year or so what evil is. As old as I am I never knew the evil that exists in this world. I'm sickened by this. There is blood on many hands. John Kerry has blood on his hands. I have never loathed a human being as much as I do him. God be with the mans family.
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