www.smh.com Militants 'execute' US soldier Tue Jun 29, 2004 02:35 64.140.159.30 Militants 'execute' US soldier June 29, 2004 - 8:44AM CLICK: An image of US soldier Keith Matthew Maupin broadcast on Al Jazeera television on April 16 this year, after he was taken hostage. Al Jazeera television has aired a video tape showing what militants said was the execution of a US soldier captured in Iraq in April. The video showed the soldier, wearing greenish overalls and seen only from the back, in a dark room. A gunman fired one shot and the body fell into a hole. US defence officials said the family of a Private Keith Matthew Maupin, 20, had been told about the existence of the video, but had also been told there was no confirmation Private Maupin had been killed. Al Jazeera quoted a statement from a previously unheard of group as saying the soldier had been killed because of US policy in Iraq and in revenge for what it described as "martyrs" in Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Algeria. The group was indentified as the Implacable Power Against the Enemy of God and the Prophet. Since April, militants in Iraq have seized a number of foreign workers and military personnel, some of whom are still captive. The US military has said Marine Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun was reported missing from his unit on June 21. On Sunday, militants appearing on Al Jazeera threatened to kill Hassoun if prisoners in Iraq were not freed. A senior US defence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Maupin's family had been told "there's a rumour Al Jazeera or an Arab network may have a tape of an execution, but we do not know if it's their son or not". Maupin, of Batavia, Ohio, has been missing since April 9 when his military fuel convoy was ambushed near Baghdad. He was a member of the Army Reserve's 724th Transportation Company. His captors sent video footage of him to Al Jazeera a week after he was seized. The poor-quality tape showed Maupin dressed in military fatigues sitting on a floor, held captive by masked and heavily armed guerrillas. At one point, he identified himself in a soft voice. One guerrilla read from a statement, saying, "We are willing to exchange him for Iraqis held by the American enemy ... This is the fate of all American soldiers in Iraq." Reuters =================================== Who Killed Nick Berg? http://www.apfn.org/NickBerg/nickberg.htm Was Nick Berg CIA? http://www.apfn.org/NickBerg/cia.htm Western Voice on Tape http://www.apfn.org/Nickberg/voice.htm The Unanswered Questions http://www.apfn.org/NickBerg/questions.htm Nick Berg Had Ties To Vermont http://www.apfn.org/NickBerg/ties.htm Zionist finger prints all over... http://www.apfn.org/NickBerg/finger-prints.htm Family of Nick Berg Blames Bush Administration http://www.apfn.org/NickBerg/bush.htm Washington Post video of Abu Ghraib abuses distorted... WHY?! http://www.apfn.org/NickBerg/abuses.htm Murder or Media Manipulation? http://www.apfn.org/NickBerg/media.htm NICK BERG + 911 + OKC BOMBING CONNECTION: http://www.apfn.org/NickBerg/connection.htm Nick Berg Video Was Uploaded From London, Not Iraq http://www.apfn.org/NickBerg/uploaded.htm BERG KILLED ABU GHRAIB PRISON - LOOK! http://www.apfn.org/NickBerg/prison.htm About those plastic chairs http://www.apfn.org/NickBerg/chair.htm Nick Berg decapitation video declared "a fraud" http://www.apfn.org/NickBerg/fraud.htm Fishy Circumstances and Flawed Timelines http://www.apfn.org/NickBerg/timelines.htm UPDATE: Berg family disputes official claims http://www.apfn.org/NickBerg/disputes.htm Beheaded Man's Firm Was On Right-Wing 'Enemies' List http://www.apfn.org/NickBerg/right-wing.htm "CIA did it to take the heat off the Pentagon"--NBC reporter http://www.apfn.org/NickBerg/heat.htm CIA CUT NICK BERG'S HEAD OFF http://www.apfn.org/NickBerg/cut.htm Nick Berg 'beheading' Staged; US Involvement Possible http://www.apfn.org/NickBerg/staged.htm NICK BERG VIDEO-AMERICAN SOLDIERS THE EXECUTIONERS? http://www.apfn.org/NickBerg/executioners.htm Digital Watermarks Prove Berg and Abuse Cameras Were the Same? http://www.apfn.org/NickBerg/cameras.htm Was nick berg decapitated alive? http://www.apfn.org/NickBerg/alive.htm At Least 50 Anomalies In Berg Videotape: Report http://www.apfn.org/NickBerg/videotape.htm Berg Video: "Someone with U.S. military cap seen in frame" http://www.apfn.org/NickBerg/cap.htm Video alleging the beheading of Jew Nicholas 'Nick' Berg http://www.apfn.org/NickBerg/nick.htm PLEASE do not show this video to anyone UNDER 18 Click Here for the Berg Video http://www.topplerummy.org/berg/NickBerg.WMV Iraqis Tortured and abused "Sadistic Style" By US Personnel Part 1 http://www.apfn.org/apfn/POW.htm Part 2 http://www.apfn.org/apfn/POW2.htm Part 3 http://www.apfn.org/apfn/POW3.htm Part 4 http://www.apfn.org/apfn/POW4.htm Part 5 http://www.apfn.org/apfn/POW5.htm Part 6 http://www.apfn.org/apfn/POW6.htm Part 7 http://www.apfn.org/apfn/POW7.htm Legal Docs. http://www.apfn/apfn/POW_legal_doc
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