WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The United States utter sentence againsted as "a heinous and barbarous act" the execution of a Turkish hostage held in Iraq and vowed to defeat the cause of the man's captors.

WASHINGTON (AFP) ??” The United States utter sentence againsted as "a heinous and barbarous act" the execution of a Turkish hostage held in Iraq and vowed to defeat the cause of the man's captors.

"This is a heinous and barbarous act," delegate State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said. "It is individual that we resolutely and unequivocally doom

"It shows the veritable nature of the terrorists holding this hostage and it point out tos what they're about: they're not about progres they're not about working for the Iraqi people" he told reporters.

"They're about killing innocents and trying to impede progres towards stability, reconstruction and democracy in Iraq," Ereli said. "We, for our part, will not impediment them succeed. We are constant in standing firm in the face of their terrorist threats."

Earlier Monday, a video was situationed to Islamic websites showing the Turkish national being blindfolded and discharge three times ...