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The Latest Video Killing By IslamoFascists!  Click Here - Know Your Enemy

Ronald Schultz

Baghdad, 19 Dec. (AKI) - The Islamic Army in Iraq has released a video which it says shows the killing of Ronald Schulz, a 40-year-old American security consultant taken hostage in Iraq earlier this month. It had already announced that he had been killed in a statement issued on 8 December, which said pictures of the killing would be released later. In the new video, which was posted on the Internet and lasts just a few seconds, the screen is split in two. On the left side the identity documents of the hostage are shown as proof of who he is, while on the right the hostage appears with his face covered.

The man, who is blindfolded and has his hands tied behind his back, has his back turned to the camera. The video then shows a gunman repeatedly firing an automatic weapon at the man, whose face is never shown.

The group had demanded that all Iraqi prisoners be released and compensation be paid to families in Iraq. Following the announcement of his killing, Schulz's family said that until they received confirmation he was dead, they would work on the assumption he was still alive.

There is still no news on the fate of another American hostage, 54-year-old peace activist Tom Fox, who was kidnapped from Baghdad on 26 November, along with three fellow peace campaigners, 74-year-old Briton Norman Kember, and Canadians James Loney, 41, and Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32. All were in Iraq working for the group Christian Peacemaker Teams when they were taken.

However, the German archaeologist Susanne Osthoff, who was also abducted at the end of November has been freed. News of her release was announced on Sunday by her brother and confirmed by the German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, but the kidnappers are still reported to be holding the Iraqi driver who was taken with her. They had threatened to kill 43-year-old Osthoff if Germany did not cut all ties with the Iraqi government.