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Nicholas Berg, U.S. businessman from Pennsylvania, was decapitated in Iraq in May. The brutal murder was broadcast on an Islamist website, which said the killing was in retaliation for the torture of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. military personnel. His was the first of a number of horrific beheadings by militants in Iraq.
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