Iraq Christian killed after $100,000 ransom demand

Source: Agence France-Presse

KIRKUK, Iraq — Iraqi insurgents killed and mutilated a Christian construction worker whom they had kidnapped over the weekend and demanded $100,000 in ransom for, police and medical officials said on Monday.

Ashur Issa Yaqub, a 29-year-old Chaldean Christian, had been snatched on Saturday in the oil-rich ethnically-mixed northern city of Kirkuk, and is survived by his wife and three children.

"A police patrol found the body of the young Christian man, his head was almost completely cut off," said Kirkuk provincial police chief Major General Jamal Taher Bakr, adding that he believed Al-Qaeda insurgents were behind the gruesome killing.

Provincial health chief Sadiq Omar Rasul confirmed the details, and added that the body "carried traces of torture and the bites of dogs".

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and billions of dollars for.

Viva Saddam!

...sad that either by misadventure or misfortune, people choose to work there in any capacity. We have turned that country into much more of a hellhole than it was under Saddam Hussein and we will never, ever, do anything to change that.

PB