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...week after Maupin disappeared, he surfaced on a video shown on al-Jazeera, the Qatari satellite channel. It showed him alive, surrounded by five gunmen masked in kaffiyehs. "My name is Keith Matthew Maupin," he said into the camera. "I am a soldier from the 1st Division." Wearing his uniform and boonie hat, Maupin appeared unharmed but dazed. "He didn't look hurt, but he was nibbling a little on his lip, which I've never seen him do before," Carolyn remembers. "I was impressed that the captors didn't have their guns pointing at him." They said...
...June 28, a second video surfaced on al-Jazeera. Dark and grainy, it showed a blindfolded man sitting before a hole in the ground. An off-camera voice speaking in Arabic identified him as Maupin. While the station didn't broadcast the shooting, the next scene showed him being shot in the back of the head. According to the voice-over, he had been executed because the U.S. had not changed its Iraq policy...
...Times have consistently provided quality coverage of Iraq, but some of the less trafficked outlets such as the Christian Science Monitor, Knight-Ridder newspapers and the Los Angeles Times are also quite good. For access to the news as covered in the Arab world, try the English edition of al-Jazeera...
FREED. EIGHT CHINESE MEN, abducted by Islamic militants after traveling to Iraq from their native Fujian province in search of work; in Iraq. In a tape broadcast by Arabic news channel al-Jazeera, a group calling itself the Islamic Resistance Movement threatened to execute the hostages unless Beijing "clarified its position" on the Iraq war; a second communiqu? demanded China agree to a state ban on travel to Iraq in exchange for "merciful" treatment of the hostages. After China advised its citizens to stay out of Iraq, the insurgents released the men, reportedly unharmed...
OSAMA BIN LADEN, on the upcoming Iraqi election, according to a new tape broadcast by the TV network al-Jazeera...