Ken Bigley

[Bizz]

Thousands of Irish oppose Ken Biglets detention sending emails to AL-JAZERRA

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/front/200...1HM1BIGLEY.html

http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage

[Bizz]

I have taken the time to email AL JEZEARA condemning Mr Bigleys detention

Stating it will achieve noting, his threatened execution will achieve noting only to

Cause unnecessary suffering to his family.

I can only ask but I think now we should all send emails to Al Jezara stating the same

Moreover, condemning his detention. AND ALL OTHERS

[Nam Kao]

Web Posting Claims British Hostage Killed

1 hour, 16 minutes ago

By DANICA KIRKA, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Internet posting claimed Saturday that an al-Qaida-linked group has killed British hostage Kenneth Bigley. The claim could not immediately be confirmed, and Britain's Foreign Office described the site where it appeared as "discredited."

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Bigley was kidnapped Sept. 16 with two Americans, Eugene Armstrong and Jack Hensley, who have since been beheaded. They were all taken from their home in Baghdad by the Tawhid and Jihad group of Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

The Web site where the posting appeared has often carried messages from Zarqawi's followers, including gruesome video that showed Hensley and Armstrong being killed. It also showed video on Wednesday of Bigley, 62, begging for his life.

But it is not as prominent as other sites that have aired similar content, and some of its earlier claims have been picked up from elsewhere. It has also carried messages that appeared not to be true, including two shaky claims that two Italian aid workers missing since Sept. 7 were killed.

The Foreign Office in London said it was aware of the claim but described the site as "discredited."

"It's just a posting," a Foreign Office spokeswoman said on customary condition of anonymity. "We can't see there's anything credible in this at all."

Saturday's message also claimed that seven British troops had been captured, but Capt. Donald Francis, a spokesman for the British military said that all forces "are accounted for."

He had no information on the claim to have executed the British hostage.

The statement appeared in red script on the Web site and consisted of only two sentences: "Tawhid and Jihad announces that it has executed the British citizen and gives you the good news of kidnapping seven British soldiers. We will be releasing the tape shortly."

In the video released Wednesday, Bigley was shown begging authorities to meet his kidnappers' demands to free all female Iraqi prisoners and save his life. The United States says there are two high-profile women in custody in Iraq (news - web sites) and there are no plans to release them.

The posting came a day after Bigley's 86-year-old mother Lil begged the kidnappers to let her son go free.

"Please show mercy to my Ken and send him home to me alive," she said in a video statement, sitting behind a table between two of her other sons and grasping one's hand. "His family need him. I need him."

Hours after making the statement, Lil Bigley was taken to a local hospital, where officials said her condition was stable. It was not clear what she was being treated for.

Bigley's wife, Sombat, also pleaded with the militants to release him.

"We have been married for seven years and I love him very much," she said from her home in Thailand. "I desperately want to be reunited with my husband. I plea for your mercy now, and beg that you release Ken so that I may be with him again."

More than 140 foreigners have been kidnapped in Iraq — some by anti-U.S. insurgents and some by criminals seeking ransoms. At least 26 of them have been killed.

[francois]

hi'

don't you think that it is useless and a waste of time thinking that we might have talks with these barbarians ..?

I can't help thinking that "they" are waiting for a lot of people to be concerned with any issue like hostages before to do their dirty job ...

those barbarians are the shame of the "so called" islam ...

making reports about them and commentaries just serve their "cause" ...

what if everybody just ignore them?

do you think that they would go on?

I ain't sure ...

but, TV's, newspapers, and web-sites give them "advertising" ... or so it goes like this

I fell sad for what is happening to all the hostages ... but we will never get to talk with the barbarians (jiiad shit), it's not political neither religious, it's simply horror and non human.

francois

[BlueTa]

it's simply horror and non human.

Agree with you, Francois.

It has nothing to do with Islam and Muslim people and I'm a bit afraid the assimilation is being made a bit too easily.

They're animals and deserve nothing and sure not the publicity we give them.

And when I say animals, I'm trying to be nice...

[tuky]

Not related to Thailand.

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