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  • Thank God I'm Alive, Says Captive Forced To Watch Hostage Beheaded

    10/15/2004 10:49:19 AM PDT · by Former Military Chick · 22 replies · 1,085+ views
    London Times ^ | October 15, 2004 | Nicholas Blanford, in Bednayel, Bekaa Valley
    HOME from Iraq, Mohammed Raad, 27, a lorry driver from Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, has a probable unique but unenviable claim to fame. Survivor: Mohammed Raad He may be the only man in the world to have been taken hostage by followers of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, watched a fellow captive beheaded, and survived to tell the tale. Pale and gaunt, and chain-smoking, his eyes brimmed with tears and his foot tapped nervously on the floor of his home in the hillside village of Bednayel yesterday as he told The Times of his ordeal. “I thank God I’m still alive, even though...