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Bulgaria not convinced by decapitation video

CBC News | August 9 2004

BAGHDAD - A video posted on websites linked to Islamic militants apparently shows the beheading of a Bulgarian man taken hostage in Iraq two months ago.

The Bulgarian government said it couldn't identify the man shown because of the image's poor quality. The Bulgarian foreign ministry offered little else in the way of comment on the video.

The video's authenticity has not been verified.

The video shows militants dressed in black and a black banner with the words Tawhid and Jihad in white Arabic script. A bearded, blindfolded man wearing an orange jumpsuit is seated in front of them.

After a brief statement by one of the militants, the video shows footage of a body being decapitated while men shout "God is great" in Arabic. The victim doesn't appear to struggle, which could indicate he was either drugged or already dead. He may also have been bound to prevent him struggling.

The final images of the video show one of the men holding a severed head before the camera.

Tawhid and Jihad, which refers to the Islamic tenets of monotheism and holy war, is the name of a militant group that has claimed responsibility for several kidnappings and beheadings of hostages, including American businessman Nicolas Berg and South Korean translator Kim Sun-il.

The group's purported leader is Jordanian terror suspect Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Militants abducted two Bulgarian truck drivers on June 29, and threatened to kill them unless Iraqi detainees were released. The discovery in mid-July of the beheaded body of one of the drivers, Georgi Lazov, in the Tigris River coincided with the release of a tape showing his death.

A second decapitated body in an orange jumpsuit was found along with a head late last month near the Tigris.

The Bulgarian government says it is awaiting the results of DNA tests to confirm whether the remains are those of the second Bulgarian hostage, Ivaylo Kepov.