| If you need to carry out an execution, why not grab | | | | being one of those who had planned the 9/11 |
| a training video for for the purpose? Furthermore, if | | | | atrocities. The film was later passed on through the |
| you are hot on beheadings, a trip to Afghanistan or | | | | internet. |
| Pakistan should be able to give you just what you | | | | The methods of the beheading were transmitted |
| need. | | | | around the world and it was Abu Musav al-Zarqawi |
| New macabre videos are being circulated which aim | | | | who picked up on and perfected the technique - if |
| to teach Al Qaeda recruits on how to carry out a | | | | "perfected" is the correct term. |
| beheading. | | | | Now, videos are available, quite openly, in markets |
| Terrorist beheadings have become popular and it is | | | | and other places in the Middle East, giving instruction |
| hard to forget the plight of Ken Bigley, a Briton who | | | | on how beheadings can be best carried out. They are |
| was publicly executed in Iraq. But he wasn't the first | | | | items of admiration among some groups. |
| to have a beheading execution in this way. | | | | Such videos have, it is thought, caused much interest |
| The crime was pioneered by Ahmed Omar Saeed in | | | | among young disaffected Muslims and it is thought |
| 2002. He kidnapped the Wall Street Journalist Daniel | | | | they may have proved the inspiration for at least 8 |
| Pearl after he was tricked into travelling alone with | | | | men who were planning to kidnap and publicly behead |
| the promise of a proposed interview. | | | | a young Muslim British soldier. |
| The beheading was filmed, the executioner allegedly | | | | |