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Zarqawi Group Says It's Behind Beheading

An Islamist Web site posts video showing militants, led by Abu Musab Zarqawi, beheading a man identified as American contractor Eugene Armstrong. American Jack Hensley and Briton Kenneth Bigley are still held by the group, which demands the release of Iraqi women prisoners. Peter Kenyon reports.

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Peter Kenyon is NPR's international correspondent based in Istanbul, Turkey.