Second American hostage murder claimed as Bush appeals for help in ...
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BAGHDAD : A group linked to suspected Al-Qaeda operative Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi claimed to have beheaded a second US hostage in Iraq, as US President George W. Bush defended the war in Iraq and asked for more foreign help in the country.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - An al-Qaida-linked group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed Tuesday to have killed the second of two American hostages - back-to-back slayings that have notched up the Jordanian militant's ruthless campaign of terror.    The claim, posted on an an Islamic Web site, could not immediately be verified...
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Family members of American and British hostages appealed for their lives after militants vowed to kill one of them today.
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BAGHDAD, 22 September 2004 - A second American hostage was killed yesterday by a group linked to Al-Qaeda as a 24-hour deadline set by it for the United States to free Iraqi women in US-run prisons ran out.
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An Iraqi militant group claims to have beheaded a second American hostage, two days after killing a US civil engineer. The group -- Al-Tawhid wa Al-Jihad, led by Al-Qaeda ally Abu Mus&#39;ab al-Zarqawi -- is threatening
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Militants killed a second American  captive in Iraq after a 24-hour deadline passed on Tuesday, a  Web site statement and Arab television said.
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Al Qaeda-linked militants said they had killed a second American hostage and threatened to kill a Briton unless women prisoners in Iraq were freed.
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An Islamic Web site claimed militants beheaded a second American hostage, 49-year-old Jack Hensley. The claim could not be confirmed, authorities said.
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BAGHDAD : Iraq&#39;s hostage crisis deepened as Islamists who beheaded two Americans let a Briton make a desperate videotaped plea, while another extremist group claimed to have executed two women Italian aid workers.
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A message posted on an Islamist Web site said Monday the militant group of al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had killed one of two Americans it was holding hostage, but the report could not be immediately verified.
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BBC, London, September 19: The wife of an American taken hostage with two others in Baghdad has appealed on television for their release.
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Kenneth Bigley, along with two Americans, was taken hostage last week. The two Americans have been beheaded. A posting on an Islamic website claims that the civil engineer has been killed.
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BAGHDAD The families of an American and a British engineer being held hostage by a militant group pleaded Tuesday for officials to help get the men released hours after the group beheaded an American.
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A group linked to al-Qaida and led by Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said yesterday that it had killed the second of two American hostages that it kidnapped last week.
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BAGHDAD - An al-Qaida-linked group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed on an Islamic website Tuesday to have killed the second of two American hostages it kidnapped last week.
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An Iraqi extremist group linked to Al Qaeda said yesterday that it had killed a second American hostage, a day after a video recording showed
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A second US hostage is reported killed in Iraq, heightening fears for fellow captive, Briton Ken Bigley.