Jack Hensley

Jack Hensley

Jack Hensley (September 22, 1955September 21, 2004) was an American engineer from Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia, near Atlanta.

While working in Iraq he was kidnapped and beheaded by terrorists. His colleague, Eugene Armstrong, was beheaded the previous day. Their killers, Tawhid and Jihad, the terrorist group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, were demanding the release of Iraqi women in U.S. custody.

Hours after Hensley was beheaded, Tawhid and Jihad posted a videotape on the Internet of British hostage Kenneth Bigley pleading to then Prime Minister Tony Blair to have his life spared. Bigley was beheaded three weeks later.

The internet service provider of Tawhid and Jihad's website showing his murder, HostingAnime, has defended showing the content citing free speech.

ee also

* Iraq
** 2003 invasion of Iraq
** Human rights situation in post-Saddam Iraq
* Decapitation
** Daniel Pearl
** Nick Berg
** Paul Marshall Johnson, Jr.
** Eugene Armstrong
** Kim Sun-il
** Kenneth Bigley
** Shosei Koda
**Seif Adnan Kanaan

External links

* [http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/21/international/middleeast/21iraq.html Iraqi Video Shows Beheading of Man Said to Be American] (The New York Times) (must be registered)
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3678150.stm Kidnappers 'Renew Death Threat'] (BBC)
* [http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/09/21/iraq.beheading/index.html Al-Zarqawi Group Beheads American Hostage] (CNN)


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