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  2. Killing of Nick Berg - Wikipedia

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    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 the United States Army and Iraqi prisoners.

  3. Shosei Koda - Wikipedia

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    Shosei Koda (香田 証生, Kōda Shōsei, 29 November 1979 – 29 October 2004) was a Japanese citizen who was kidnapped while touring Iraq and later beheaded on 29 October 2004 by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group, al-Qaeda in Iraq. He was the first Japanese person beheaded in Iraq.

  4. Kidnapping and murder of Kenneth Bigley - Wikipedia

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    Kenneth John Bigley (22 April 1942 – 7 October 2004) was a British civil engineer who was kidnapped by Islamic extremists in the al-Mansour district of Baghdad, Iraq, on 16 September 2004, along with his colleagues, U.S. citizens Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong.

  5. Beheading video - Wikipedia

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    The videos were popularized in 2004 by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a radical Islamic militant. [ 5 ] The videos caused controversy among Islamic scholars, some of whom denounced them as against Islamic law; al-Qaeda did not approve and Osama bin Laden considered them poor public relations.

  6. Kidnapping and killing of Margaret Hassan - Wikipedia

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    Al Jazeera reported that it had received a tape showing Hassan's murder but was unable to confirm its authenticity. The video showed Hassan being shot with a handgun by a masked man. [citation needed] It is not known who was responsible for Hassan's abduction and alleged murder. The group holding her never identified itself in the hostage videos.

  7. List of Iraq War documentaries - Wikipedia

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    Uncovered: The War on Iraq (2004) Voices of Iraq (2004) War Feels Like War (2004) War with Iraq: Stories from the Front (2004) We Iraqis (2004) Alpha Company: Iraq Diary (2005) American Soldiers (2005) Confronting Iraq: Conflict and Hope (2005) [2] The Dreams of Sparrows (2005) Gunner Palace (2005) In the Shadow of the Palms (2005) Iraqi War ...

  8. Killing of captives by the Islamic State - Wikipedia

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    By June 2014, according to United Nations reports, ISIL had killed hundreds of prisoners of war [6] and over 1,000 civilians. [7] [8] [9] Specific incidents involving the killing of military prisoners including the mass killing of up to 250 Syrian Army soldiers near Tabqa Air base, [6] and killings that took place in Camp Speicher (1,095–1,700 Iraqi soldiers shot and "thousands" more ...

  9. Killing of Qusay and Uday Hussein - Wikipedia

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    Uday and Qusay Hussein, sons of deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, were killed during an American military operation conducted on 22 July 2003, in the city of Mosul, Iraq. The operation originally intended to apprehend them, but turned into a four-hour gun battle outside a fortified safehouse which ended with the death of the brothers ...