Who was shot/beheaded in Iraq today/yesterday/weeks ago?

[stickdog]

http://www.zaman.com/?bl=national&alt=&trh=20040803&hn=11070



Turkish Hostage Beheaded

Reportedly one of the two Turkish truck drivers, who were held hostage last Saturday (July 31) by Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi group in the Iraqi capital Bagdat (Baghdad), was beheaded earlier today.

An Internet site has shown photos of a Turkish hostage and how he was beheaded by Al-Zarqawi men. The five consecutive photos re-enacted how the beheading took place.


http://www.xposed.com/headline_news/49_ds_779348.aspx

Videos: Iraqi Militants Kill, Free Hostage
06:43 AM EST - August 02, 2004

The Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq

A video posted on the Internet shows a masked gunman pumping three bullets into a man's head in what appears to be the murder of a Turkish hostage by militants in Iraq. In another video, militants said they would free a Somali captive because his Kuwaiti employer agreed to stop working in Iraq.

A video posted on a Web site used by militant groups shows a man identified as a Turk kneeling in front of three armed men. The man reads a statement in Turkish, identifying himself as Murat Yuce from Ankara, the Turkish capital. He says he works for a Turkish company that subcontracted for a Jordanian firm. "I have a word of advice for any Turk who wants to come to Iraq to work: 'You don't have to be holding a gun to be aiding the occupationist United States ... Turkish companies should withdraw from Iraq," he says.

At the end of the statement, the leader of the three presumed kidnappers takes out a pistol and shoots the Turk in the side of the head. The Turk slumps to the ground, and the kidnapper shoots him in the head twice more. Blood is seen on the ground next to his head. A black banner on the wall behind the kidnappers identifies the group as the Tawhid and Jihad, which is led by the Jordanian militant linked to al-Qaida, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. It was not clear when the hostage was killed and his name did not match those of the two Turkish truck drivers kidnapped by Tawhid and Jihad last week.


http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3581833&thesection=news&thesubsection=world

Website shows photos of Turkish hostage 'killing'

DUBAI - An Islamist website has shown photographs of what it says is the killing of a Turkish hostage in Iraq by a group linked to al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

The site showed a sequence of five still pictures, available on Monday, showing the hostage kneeling before armed, masked men standing in front of a banner which resembled that of Zarqawi's Tawhid and Jihad Group.

One picture showed a masked man holding a gun to the head of the blindfolded hostage and another showed the man lying face down on the floor with blood pouring out of his head.


http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/politics/9300801.htm

The video carried a date in the Islamic calender - 13-4-1425 - which corresponds with June 1, 2004. It was not clear whether the tape was shot on that date, and released recently, or whether it was posted on the Internet on that date.


http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aTtyJHEzMY8A&refer=top_world_news

CNN Turk television reported that the same group carried out the murder of the construction worker. On a videotape broadcast by CNN Turk, the worker identified himself as Murat Yucel from Corum, a central Turkish town. He read out a statement warning other Turks and Turkish companies from doing business in Iraq. The masked militants then blindfolded him, pointed a handgun to his head, shouted ``God is Great'' in Arabic three times and shot him.

The Turkish embassy spokesman in Baghdad couldn't identify the group that carried out the killing. The murdered Turk was working for Tepe Insaat, a Turkish construction company, he said.


http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1091416709887

In the video, found on an Islamic Web site Monday, the Turk identifies himself as Murat Yuce from Ankara and says he worked for the Turkish company Bilintur.

In Ankara, a manager for Bilintur, Hasan Mecit, told The Associated Press the catering firm has an employee named Murat Yuce in Iraq, and would issue a statement later Monday.

[stickdog]

1. Hey, I'm serious. Does anybody here have any insight into this?

Who got killed by whom? How and why?

Any theories at all out there?