American Hostage Jack Hensley Murdered
His wife spoke to CNN and other media several times whenthere was still hope :”His daughter, Sarah, would just like to say, ‘Daddy, I miss you and I love you, please come home,’ and me too,” said Patty Hensley, speaking from Atlanta, Georgia.
“We are putting a lot of strength in our belief that Jack was honestly there to help the people and because of that they should not harm him and hopefully will not,” Mrs. Hensley told ABC’s “Good Morning America” show.
The Tawhid and Jihad group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said in the footage of Armstrong’s killing it would behead the other two hostages within 24 hours unless female inmates were released from the Abu Ghraib and Umm Qasr jails.
The U.S. military says it does not hold women in either prison and has only two in custody in Iraq. Mrs. Hensley said she had received conflicting stories about this. Mrs. Hensley said she had spoken to the Armstrong family several times since the brutal killing of Eugene Armstrong.
“They are still in a great deal of shock and of course their prayers are now going out for Jack and Ken Bigley. They still don’t understand why. These were three very kind, benevolent men who were just trying to help the Iraqi people. They had no hidden agendas for why they were there.”
Our hearts go out to Pat and Sarah and the families of all the murdered. Its hard to abandon the expectation of rationality and morality when dealing with other humans, but nothing can be expected from Zarqawi that remotely resembles normal human behaivor.
For updates:
Check Rusty at My Pet Jawa: translation of statement: We have beheaded the second American hostage after the expiration of the deadline.. And we will release film footage soon, God willing..And we will execute the British hostage unless the British government pulls out unconditionally.
More updates to follow at My Pet Jawa.
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Backcountry conservative: The fate of Briton Kenneth Bigley has yet to be decided but the same terrorist group has threatened to carry out his execution tomorrow if their demands are not met.
Rambling’s Journal notes he was a Marietta resident.
Jihadii statement from In the Bullpen:The nations zealous children slaughtered the second American hostage-after the end of the deadline, said the statement, posted under the pseudonym Abu Maysara al-Iraqi, who has posted past statements in the group’s name.
Statement of editorial postion: I blame this horrible inhumane attack on the vile Salafi Zarqawi and all the beastly jihadiis around the world, not on all Muslims or all Iraqis. Zarqawi murders Iraqi Muslim civilians on a nearly daily basis.
