Beheaded Briton buried near Fallujah: militant's lawyer

0 Comments | AFP, April, 2006

ISTANBUL (AFP) — British hostage Kenneth Bigley was buried near the restive Iraqi town of Fallujah after he was beheaded by his captors, the Turkish lawyer of a suspected Al-Qaeda operative who claims a role in the killing has said.

"Kenneth Bigley is buried near the entrance to Fallujah city... As you enter the city on the left there is a ditch, and his body is in this ditch," lawyer Osman Karahan told a press conference in his office here Saturday.

The lawyer distributed to reporters copies of a rough hand-drawn sketch of the ditch which he said was drawn by his client, Louai Sakka, a Syrian national and alleged associate of Al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi.

"This information came from my client and other sources and I have no doubt of its...

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