Jack Hensley was an American

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 engineer

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 from Marietta

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, Cobb County

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, Georgia

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, near Atlanta.

While working in Iraq

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 he was kidnapped and beheaded

Decapitation

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 by Iraqi insurgents. His colleague, Eugene Armstrong, was beheaded the previous day. Hours after Hensley was beheaded, Tawhid and Jihad posted a videotape on the Internet

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 of British hostage Kenneth Bigley

Kenneth Bigley

Kenneth John Bigley , born Liverpool, England, was a civil engineer who was kidnapped in the al-Mansour district of Baghdad, Iraq on 16 September 2004, along with his colleagues Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong, both U.S. citizens...

 pleading to then Prime Minister

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 Tony Blair

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 to have his life spared. Bigley was beheaded three weeks later, on October 8, 2004.

See also

• Iraq
  Iraq
  Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
  
  
  • 2003 invasion of Iraq
    2003 invasion of Iraq
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  • Human rights in post-invasion Iraq
• Decapitation
  Decapitation
  Decapitation is the separation of the head from the body. Beheading typically refers to the act of intentional decapitation, e.g., as a means of murder or execution; it may be accomplished, for example, with an axe, sword, knife, wire, or by other more sophisticated means such as a guillotine...
  
  
  • Nick Berg
    Nick Berg
    Nicholas Evan "Nick" Berg was an American businessman who went to Iraq after the US invasion of Iraq. He was abducted and later beheaded according to a video released in May 2004 by Islamist militants...
    
    
  • Eugene Armstrong
  • Kim Sun-il
    Kim Sun-il
    Kim Sun-il was a South Korean translator and Christian missionary who was kidnapped and beheaded in Iraq.- Kidnapping :...
    
    
  • Kenneth Bigley
    Kenneth Bigley
    Kenneth John Bigley , born Liverpool, England, was a civil engineer who was kidnapped in the al-Mansour district of Baghdad, Iraq on 16 September 2004, along with his colleagues Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong, both U.S. citizens...
    
    
  • Shosei Koda
    Shosei Koda
    Shosei Koda was a Japanese citizen who was kidnapped and later beheaded in Iraq on November 3, 2004 while touring the country. His parents were members of the United Church of Christ...
    
    
  • Seif Adnan Kanaan
    Seif Adnan Kanaan
    Seif Adnan Kanaan , was an Iraqi citizen who was abducted in Iraq and beheaded on October 22, 2004. The reason given by the kidnappers, the Army of Ansar Al-Sunna, was that he was employed by the United States Army.-Murder:...
    
    
  • Daniel Pearl
    Daniel Pearl
    Daniel Pearl was an American journalist who was kidnapped and killed by Al-Qaeda.At the time of his kidnapping, Pearl served as the South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, and was based in Mumbai, India. He went to Pakistan as part of an investigation into the alleged links between...
    
    
  • Piotr Stańczak
    Piotr Stańczak
    Piotr Stańczak was a Polish geologist who was beheaded by Islamic terrorists in Pakistan in February 2009. Stańczak was abducted in the city of Attock in September 2008 after gunmen shot dead his driver, translator and bodyguard with whom he was travelling in a car...
    
    
  • Paul Marshall Johnson, Jr.
    Paul Marshall Johnson, Jr.
    Paul Marshall Johnson, Jr. was an American helicopter engineer who lived in Saudi Arabia. He was a native of both Stafford and Eagleswood, New Jersey...
    
    
• Margaret Hassan
  Margaret Hassan
  Margaret Hassan was an Irish aid worker who had worked in Iraq for many years until she was abducted and murdered by unidentified kidnappers in Iraq in 2004, at the age of 59...
  
  

External links

• Sara Hensley Trust (Archive)
• Wong, Edward. "Iraqi Video Shows Beheading of Man Said to Be American." The New York Times
  The New York Times
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  . September 21, 2004.
• "Jack Hensley Obituary." Atlanta Journal-Constitution.