{"id":1352,"date":"2004-10-12T01:12:57","date_gmt":"2004-10-12T08:12:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-10-12T01:12:57","modified_gmt":"2004-10-12T08:12:57","slug":"titan-corp-employee-beheaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/12\/titan-corp-employee-beheaded\/","title":{"rendered":"Titan Corp. employee beheaded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politrix.org\/modules.php?name=News&#038;file=article&#038;sid=1418\" target=\"_blank\">Titan Corp. contractors beheaded<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) An Islamic Web site on Monday showed the beheading of two hostages one a Turkish contractor and the other an Iraqi Kurdish translator wearing a badge of the Titan security company. A statement said the two were killed by the Ansar al-Sunnah Army, which also claimed responsibility for slaughtering 12 Nepalese workers and three Iraqi Kurds on Aug. 31 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicintegrity.org\/wow\/bio.aspx?act=pro&#038;ddlC=159\" target=\"_blank\">Titan Corporation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turkishpress.com\/turkishpress\/news.asp?ID=30444\" target=\"_blank\">On a related topic: <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>KIRKUK, Oct 11 (AFP) &#8211; A spike in the number of kidnappings of Turkish tanker drivers delivering fuel to Iraq has plunged the northern city of Kirkuk in an energy crisis, an oil executive said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the first time, Kirkuk is facing a severe fuel shortage because Turkish drivers are refusing to come to Iraq because of the threat of kidnapping and attacks on the road between the two countries,&#8221; said Ali Sahin, director of the General Oil Products company during a city council meeting.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Kirkuk refinery was in no position to meet all of the region&#8217;s demand, especially with winter approaching. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeerah.info\/11n\/Hit%20Mosque%20Destroyed%20in%20US%20Air%20Raid,%20Mosul%20Suicide%20Car%20Bomb%20Kills%202%20Iraqis,%20US%20Soldier,%20Injures%2017,%20Shi'i%20Fighters%20Hand%20Over%20Arms%20for%20Cash%20in%20Baghdad.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Two other beheaded bodies <\/a>were found near Mosul today, but were not identified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Titan Corp. contractors beheaded BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) An Islamic Web site on Monday showed the beheading of two hostages one a Turkish contractor and the other an Iraqi Kurdish translator wearing a badge of the Titan security company. A statement said the two were killed by the Ansar al-Sunnah Army, which also claimed responsibility for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}