Jack Hensley, seated in orange, before his beheading by the five men standing over him

Jack Hensley (September 22, 1955 – September 21, 2004) was an American engineer from Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia, near Atlanta. Image File history File links JackHensley. ... Image File history File links JackHensley. ... September 22 is the 265th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (266th in leap years). ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... September 21 is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Look up engineer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Historic Downtown Marietta Marietta is a city located in central Cobb County, GeorgiaGR6, and is its county seat. ... Cobb County is a county located in the state of Georgia. ... This article is about the state capital of Georgia. ...

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. Salome and the Beheading of St. ... Terrorist redirects here. ... Eugene Armstrong, in orange, seated, before his decapitation by the five men standing over him. ... Jamaat al-Tawhid wal Jihad members with Shosei Koda and with the banner in the background Jamaat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (Arabic: جماعة ال�توحيد والجهاد, Monotheism and Holy Struggle Movement) is the... Wikinews has news related to: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi killed in airstrike Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (Arabic: ‎, ) (October 20, 1966 – June 7, 2006) led Al-Qaeda in Iraq until his death in June 2006. ...

Hours after Hensley was beheaded, Tawhid and Jihad posted a videotape on the Internet of British hostage Kenneth Bigley pleading to Prime Minister Tony Blair to have his life spared. Bigley was beheaded three weeks later. Kenneth Bigley and his wife Sombat at their wedding in 1998 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... For other people of the same name, see Tony Blair (disambiguation) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953)[1] is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Leader of the UK Labour Party, and Member of the UK Parliament...

The internet service provider of Tawhid and Jihad's website showing his execution, HostingAnime, has defended showing the content citing "free speech". An Internet service provider (abbr. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or subdomain on the World Wide Web on the Internet. ... HostingAnime or Hosting Anime is a free web hosting service which is supposedly based in Westchester, California. ... Freedom of speech is the right to freely say what one pleases, as well as the related right to hear what others have stated. ...

See also

• Iraq
  • 2003 invasion of Iraq
  • Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse
  • 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
  • Fabrizio Quattrocchi
  • Seif Adnan Kanaan

Combatants Coalition Forces: United States United Kingdom Poland Australia South Korea Romania Spain Portugal Italy others. ... {{{mWf}}} Caution: This article contains several potentially morbid photographs that depict nude, abused, and deceased persons. ... The Bush administration and many parties have expressed concern about the state of human rights in Iraq after the 2003 occupation of Iraq. ... Salome and the Beheading of St. ... Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963 – February 1, 2002) was a journalist who garnered international concern when he was kidnapped (and eventually murdered) in Karachi, Pakistan. ... Nick Berg in October 2003 Nicholas Nick Evan Berg (April 2, 1978 – May 7, 2004) was an American businessman seeking telecommunications work in Iraq during the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq. ... A family photo of Johnson. ... Eugene Armstrong, in orange, seated, before his decapitation by the five men standing over him. ... Kim Sun-il (September 13, 1970 – June 22, 2004) was a South Korean translator working in Iraq for Gana General Trading Company, a South Korean company under contract to the U.S. military. ... Kenneth Bigley and his wife Sombat at their wedding in 1998 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... Shosei Koda Shosei Koda (香田証生 Kōda Shōsei, November 29, 1979–November 3, 2004?) was a Japanese citizen who was kidnapped and later beheaded in Iraq of November 3, 2004 while touring the country. ... Fabrizio Quattrocchi during his captivity Fabrizio Quattrocchi was a 36-year-old Italian security guard taken hostage by Islamist militants in Iraq and murdered there on April 15, 2004. ... This article needs cleanup. ...

External links

• Iraqi Video Shows Beheading of Man Said to Be American (The New York Times) (must be registered)
• Kidnappers 'Renew Death Threat' (BBC)
• Al-Zarqawi Group Beheads American Hostage (CNN)
• Memorial site for Jack Hensley