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Killing of Nick Berg. Nicholas Evan Berg (April 2, 1978 – May 7, 2004) was an American freelance radio-tower repairman [1] who went to Iraq after the United States' invasion of Iraq. He was abducted and beheaded according to a video released in May 2004 by Islamist militants in response to the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse involving ...
t. e. Beginning in 2014, a number of people from various countries were beheaded by the Islamic State (IS), a radical Sunni Jihadist group operating in Iraq and Syria as well as elsewhere. In January 2014, a copy of an IS penal code surfaced describing the penalties it enforces in areas under its control, including multiple beheadings. [ 1 ]
An unemployed Pennsylvania resident and self-proclaimed militia leader named Justin Mohn, uploaded a 14-minute YouTube video in which he displayed a severed head. The 32-year-old man said the head belonged to his 68-year-old father, Michael Mohn, who he said "is now in hell for eternity as a traitor to this country".
Camp Justice, Kadhimiya, Baghdad, Iraq. The execution of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein took place on 30 December 2006. Saddam was sentenced to death by hanging, after being convicted of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal for the Dujail massacre —the killing of 148 Iraqi Shi'ites in the town of Dujail —in 1982, in ...
James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton (1581) – executed on the Scottish maiden for complicity in murder of Lord Darnley. William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie (1584) – executed by order of James VI of Scotland. John Maxwell, 9th Lord Maxwell (1613) – beheaded in Edinburgh for carrying out a revenge killing.
In a video uploaded to YouTube on 19 August 2014, Foley read a prepared statement criticising the United States, the recent airstrikes in Iraq, and his brother who serves in the US Air Force. [29] Emwazi, wearing a mask, also read a prepared statement in which he criticised US and President Barack Obama and made demands to cease the 2014 ...
James Wright Foley (October 18, 1973 – c. August 19, 2014) was an American journalist and video reporter. While working as a freelance war correspondent during the Syrian Civil War, he was abducted on November 22, 2012, in northwestern Syria. He was murdered by decapitation in August 2014 purportedly as a response to American airstrikes in ...
By June 2014, according to United Nations reports, ISIL had killed hundreds of prisoners of war [3] and over 1,000 civilians. [4] [5] [6] Specific incidents involving the killing of military prisoners including the mass killing of up to 250 Syrian Army soldiers near Tabqa Air base, [3] and killings that took place in Camp Speicher (1,095–1,700 Iraqi soldiers shot and "thousands" more ...