British engineer Kenneth Bigley was taken hostage in September 2004 and beheaded in October. A senior al-Qaeda member, 33-year-old Louia Sakka, confessed to Turkish authorities that he was present at Bigley's phony trial.From Guardian.co.uk:
Louia Sakka, a Syrian associate of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the organisation's leader in Iraq, maintains that he presided over a mock trial of Mr Bigley shortly before the 62-year-old was beheaded.Sakka is a chameleon who has been in and out of Turkey at least 55 times using 18 different identities and appearance changes by plastic surgery. Also, Sakka claims to have met bin Laden and later provided passports for several of the 9/11 hijackers. All in all, there's reason to be skeptical about anything Sakka asserts. However, from what I've heard and read, the Turks are particularly successful in getting prisoners to be truthful. They have their ways.
Sakka made the confession while being questioned about his alleged role in suicide bomb attacks against four targets in Istanbul, including the British consulate general and the local headquarters of the HSBC bank, in which 61 people died and more than 600 were injured.
He was arrested after a later explosion ripped through the bomb factory he had constructed inside an apartment overlooking the Mediterranean at the resort of Antalya, where he was planning to attack an Israeli cruise liner.
Sakka's defence lawyer says the terrorist has repeated his claims about his involvement in Mr Bigley's murder to him, and is convinced they are true. "My client has been a warrior for Islam for the last 10 years," said the lawyer, Osman Karahan.
So far, however, Sakka has refused to say who carried out the murder, or reveal the whereabouts of Mr Bigley's body.
The British Foreign Office has committed to following up on the Bigley case. It's very important to many people for Ken Bigley's remains to be recovered. It's also important to go after the specific thug terrorists responsible for Ken Bigley's murder.
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