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	Kenneth Bigley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kenneth John Bigley (1942 – October 7, 2004), was a civil engineer from Liverpool, England, who was kidnapped in the al-Mansour district of Baghdad, Iraq on September 16, 2004, along with Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong, both U.S. citizens.
		After Bigley's death, it emerged that the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) had launched a rescue operation that had allowed Bigley to escape for a brief period, but he was recaptured at a roadblock, taken back to the Tawhid and Jihad safehouse, and beheaded shortly afterwards.
		Bigley's family, particularly his brother Paul, was successful, with the help of the Irish government, in eliciting support for Bigley's release from Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, King Hussein of Jordan, and Colonel Gadaffi of Libya, who made public statements.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kenneth_Bigley (1504 words)

	British Hostage's Life Tainted by Tragedy - MSNBC Wire Services - MSNBC.com
		Bigley, whose son from his first marriage died in a traffic accident 18 years ago, also was looking forward to the birth of his first grandchild, expected in February.
		Kenneth Bigley was the second of four sons born to shipyard worker Thomas and his Irish-born wife Elizabeth, now 86 and still living in Liverpool.
		Kenneth grew up close to the grounds of the city's Everton soccer club and was a huge fan all his life.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6207390/from/RL.2 (650 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Profile: Kenneth Bigley
		Kenneth Bigley was killed just over three weeks after he was taken hostage in Iraq.
		Mr Bigley was also looking forward to the birth of his first grandchild, due in February.
		Kenneth Bigley was born in the streets close to his beloved Everton FC's Goodison Park, to mother Lil, originally from Stepaside, County Dublin, and father Thomas, a shipyard worker.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/3683182.stm (734 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Bigley killed after 'escape bid'
		Mr Bigley is thought to have escaped for around half an hour, with the help of one of his captors.
		Mr Bigley's Thai-born wife Sombat, who is with her family in Bangkok, released a short statement through the British embassy.
		A video released by the kidnappers showed six hooded, armed men standing behind Mr Bigley, who was on his knees, according to a witness who watched the video for the Reuters news agency.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/3728596.stm (714 words)

	Briton beheaded, his family says / Engineer suffers same fate as his two American roommates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bigley was shown seated in an orange jumpsuit before six fl-clad insurgents of Jamaat al-Tawhid and Jihad, the organization headed by the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Reuters news agency reported.
		Kenneth Bigley's older brother, Paul, has harshly criticized British Prime Minister Tony Blair and has emerged as a rallying figure for Britons advocating the withdrawal of the country's troops from Iraq.
		Bigley had returned to an engineering career after the death of a teenage son in 1986 and worked for his brother, Paul, on projects in several Middle East countries.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/10/09/MNGSK96KRU1.DTL (885 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com:Kenneth Bigley can be released soon
		Bigley, a 62-year-old engineer, was seized 18 days ago with two Americans, both of whom were beheaded by Tawhid and Jihad, informs Reuters.
		Paul Bigley said in British radio interviews Monday that his sources tell him the new group is likely to demand a cash ransom, rather than make political demands.
		Bigley, originally from Liverpool, was working as a civil engineer in the Iraqi capital when he was kidnapped, reports CNN.
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2004/10/05/56430_.html (804 words)

	Video of Bigley's beheading posted on Internet - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com
		The attempt failed and Bigley was killed a short time later as was shown on a video of his beheading, the Washington official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
		Bigley was seized at his Baghdad home Sept. 16 by the most feared terrorist group in Iraq, Tawhid and Jihad, along with Americans Eugene Armstrong, 52, and Jack Hensley, 48.
		The Bigley kidnapping and his heart-wrenching appeals to Blair reinvigorated the anti-war movement in Britain just as the Americans were acknowledging that Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction no longer existed by the time the war began in March 2003.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6190477 (991 words)

	CNN.com - Family: Briton held hostage in Iraq killed - Oct 8, 2004
		Bigley, 62, was kidnapped from his Baghdad residence three weeks ago with two American colleagues, Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong.
		Bigley was wearing an orange jumpsuit, the kind that has been worn by other hostages held in Iraq, as well as inmates of the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
		Paul Bigley, another brother of the hostage and a resident of Amsterdam, had been at the forefront of efforts by the family to free the hostage.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/10/08/uk.hostage (781 words)

	USATODAY.com - British hostage in Iraq has been killed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Meanwhile, a masked gunman claiming to be familiar with Bigley's kidnappers told The Associated Press that the hostage managed to elude his 10 guards Thursday.
		Bigley was found the next morning in a deserted area, carrying a gun, he said.
		Bigley, a 62-year-old civil engineer who worked on an American base, was the first British hostage killed in Iraq and at least the 28th overall.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2004-10-08-brit-hostage_x.htm (631 words)

	Kenneth Bigley - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Kenneth John Bigley (1942 – October 7, 2004), was a civil engineer from Liverpool, England, who was kidnapped in the al-Mansour district of Baghdad, Iraq on September 16, 2004, along with Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong, both U.S. citizens.
		Clearly exhausted and highly emotional, Bigley spoke directly to Tony Blair: "I need you to help me now, Mr Blair, because you are the only person on God's earth who can help me." The video was posted on Islamist websites and shown on al-Jazeera television.
		News reports [2] published after Bigley's death suggested he had briefly managed to escape from the kidnappers with the help of two MI6 agents of Syrian and Iraqi origin, who paid two of his captors to help him.
	www.voyager.in /Kenneth_Bigley (1476 words)

	Michael Parker's Journal
		Evidentally, rumors abound that Bigley escaped and was on his way to a US-controlled area when he and those who helped him escape were re-captured.
		Just prior to his death, with cameras rolling, Bigley is seen kneeling in front of his captors, seemingly resolved knowing that he was taking in his last moments of life.
		His captors, a militant group suspected of being allies with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who previously beheaded the Bigley's housemates, the two Americans Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong in September, were demanding the release of Iraqi women in Abu Grhaib.
	blogs.salon.com /0002090/2004/10/10.html (460 words)

	I love Jet Noise: Bigley Killed During Escape?
		Mr Bigley was captured just weeks before his official retirement when he would have joined her in Thailand.
		Digger has initial reports of hostage Kenneth Bigley's death (which say he was reportedly beheaded.) However, The cable news networks (Fox and MSNBC) were where I first heard this story and (a clarification) Jim Miklaszewski of NBC News at the...
		Kenneth Bigley was taken Hostage with two Americans, Eugene Armstrong and Jack Hensley, on September 16th, 2004.
	joatmoaf.typepad.com /i_love_jet_noise/2004/10/bigley_killed_d.html (1331 words)

	British hos."Kenneth Bigley" Behaeded...no video - Kawasaki ZX-10R
		BAGHDAD (Reuters) - British hostage Ken Bigley has been beheaded in Iraq, three weeks after he was kidnapped by militants demanding the release of women held by U.S.-led forces, a video seen by Reuters showed on Friday.
		Guerrilla sources in the rebel-held city of Falluja said earlier that Bigley, who was being held by a militant group led by alleged al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was killed on Thursday afternoon in Latifiya, southwest of Baghdad.
		Bigley was kidnapped in Baghdad on Sept. 16 by the Tawhid and Jihad Group, along with two American colleagues who were beheaded soon afterwards.
	zx-10r.net /forum/showthread.php?t=3269 (409 words)

	Kenneth Bigley Beheaded !!
		Bigley's brother, Phil, released a statement saying that after "three long weeks of agony," his family has seen proof that Kenneth is dead.
		Citing guerrilla sources in Fallujah, Reuters reports that Bigley was killed in the Sunni Muslim town of Latifiya on Thursday afternoon.
		Bigley was kidnapped alongside two American colleagues from their shared Baghdad residence on Sept. 16.
	www.talkaboutcollecting.com /group/rec.knives/messages/134475.html (642 words)

	CBC News: New video of British hostage aired
		The tape, shown on the Arab news network Al-Jazeera Wednesday, shows a sobbing Bigley dressed in an orange jumpsuit talking behind an iron cage as his hands and legs are chained.
		Bigley says on the tape that his kidnappers do not want to kill him, according to Al-Jazeera.
		The video comes as Bigley's brother Paul says he received an e-mail, purportedly from his brother's captors, that states Kenneth will soon be released alive.
	www.cbc.ca /story/world/national/2004/09/29/bigley040929.html (305 words)

	CNN.com - Religious leaders in hostage plea - Sep 23, 2004
		Bigley's 86-year-old mother was hospitalized after complaining of feeling unwell, authorities said.
		Bigley, 62, was abducted last Thursday along with two Americans from their Baghdad residence.
		Bigley's captors said he would face the same fate unless the British government met their demand to release Muslim women from Iraqi prisons.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/09/23/britain.vigil (908 words)

	CNN.com - UK hostage alive, says brother - Sep 27, 2004
		Bigley, a 62-year-old engineer, was kidnapped from his Baghdad home 10 days ago along with two Americans, who were later beheaded.
		Bigley's fate is still unknown, though an Islamic Web site reported on Saturday that he too had been killed.
		But Paul Bigley says he was not persuaded by that claim and he was not relying on the British government to resolve the hostage crisis.
	edition.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/09/26/britain.hostage (680 words)

	Mick Hartley: Kenneth Bigley
		The family of British hostage Kenneth Bigley today made a desperate plea to Tony Blair to bow to his kidnappers' demands as the only way of saving his life.
		The kidnappers say Mr Bigley, 62, and their third hostage, American Jack Hensley, will meet the same fate unless Iraqi women held prisoner by the US are freed.
		September 22, 2004 10:18 PM Tragic as the situation certainly is, If Kenneth Bigley and his family are so opposed to Blairs policy's, why did he go to Iraq in the first place.
	mickhartley.typepad.com /blog/2004/09/kenneth_bigley.html (875 words)

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		Abu Dhabi television is reporting that British hostage Kenneth Bigley has been beheaded by his loving captors.
		Bigley was shown making a statement as six militants stood behind him before one cut his head off with a knife.
		The tape showed Bigley wearing an orange jump suit of the type worn by detainees in U.S. prisons including the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
	www.sixmeatbuffet.com /2004/10/kenneth-bigley-beheaded.html (333 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Kenneth Bigley kidnapping
		THE family of murdered British hostage Kenneth Bigley have called for Scotland Yard detectives to investigate claims that his body is buried in a ditch near the Iraqi city of Fallujah.
		THE family of Ken Bigley, the 62-year-old Briton who was taken hostage before being murdered by...
		THE body of Kenneth Bigley, the British engineer killed by his kidnappers last week after three...
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=1205 (481 words)

	The Jawa Report: Kenneth Bigley Beheaded in Iraq
		Abu Dhabi television has obtained a videotape that it says shows Bigley being beheaded by his captors, and it has decided not to broadcast the tape of the killing, said a network spokesman who asked not to be identified.
		The victim's younger brother, Paul Bigley, recently had his home Dutch Intelligence officers and his computer was siezed [details here] amidst allegations that Bigley's family was communicating with the terrorists.
		Thursday, Sept 16: Kenneth Bigley and two Americans - Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong - are seized by militants in a dawn raid in the wealthy Al-Mansour district of Baghdad.
	mypetjawa.mu.nu /archives/049309.php (18034 words)

	The Jawa Report: New Kenneth Bigley Propaganda Film Released
		Kenneth Bigley's mother and brother, though, have been doing the work of the terrorists for them--trying to lay the blame for Bigley predicament on Tony Blair.
		They are passing messages to Bigley that his mother is sick in the hospital and he pleads for the Brits to have compassion on his mother by working for his release.
		Sadly, Bigley may die anyway, and so so terribly, even worse than the two before him as they met their fate rather quickly, whereas Bigley's already dying a slow death by humiliation, anguish, agony, malnutrition, confined quarters, you name it.
	mypetjawa.mu.nu /archives/047937.php (7535 words)

	British Hostage Kenneth Bigley Beheaded - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hostage Ken Bigley was feared dead today after a Middle East TV station reported it had video footage said to show his execution.
		British hostage Kenneth Bigley, who pleaded tearfully last month for Prime Minister Tony Blair to meet his kidnappers' demands, was beheaded by his captors, his brother said Friday.
		A witness who saw a videotape sent to Abu Dhabi TV said it showed six hooded, armed men standing behind the kneeling Bigley, whom the witness recognized from two previous tapes released by the kidnappers in which he pleaded for his life.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=157944 (951 words)

	CNN.com - Hostage's brother accuses U.S. - Sep 23, 2004
		Lil Bigley, 86, begged for her son's release just an hour after Blair telephoned Bigley's Liverpool family for a second time.
		Bigley and two Americans -- Eugene Armstrong and Jack Hensley -- were kidnapped September 16.
		Kenneth Bigley's brother Paul said the initial report that the prisoners would be released was "a shadow of light in a big, long, dark, damp, filthy, cold tunnel."
	us.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/09/23/britain.hostage (1118 words)

	Kenneth Bigley's final TV plea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		THE Iraqi militants who murdered Kenneth Bigley delivered a final affront to his memory yesterday, when they released a videotape of him appealing to the Prime Minister for help moments before he was decapitated.
		Mr Bigley, who was working on an American base in Iraq, was taken from his Baghdad home on 16 September along with Americans Eugene Armstrong, 52, and Jack Hensley, 48.
		Both Americans were beheaded within days but Mr Bigley was held for three weeks, forced to become a mouthpiece for his kidnappers in a political game which brought world-wide revulsion and condemnation.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1241532/posts (1485 words)

	Hostage Kenneth Bigley Beheaded By Terrorists : Diggers Realm
		There was an initial video of Kenneth Bigley pleading to the British government and Tony Blair to intercede on September 22.
		A second video of Kenneth Bigley chained and in a cage and pleading for his life was released on September 29th.
		Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said on Thursday that fresh developments in the case of British hostage Kenneth Bigley may be near, BBC News 24 television reported.
	www.diggersrealm.com /mt/archives/000212.html (1420 words)

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