As many of my long-time readers know, I had been keeping what I think was the most accurate accounting of hostages murdered in the name of Islam. The reason I stopped updating that list was because the terrorist scumbags began to murder en masse and I just couldn't keep up. Further, I wanted the names of each hostage to be included in that list. As groups such as Ansar al-Sunnah began to kill dozens of hostages at a time this became impossible.

Below you will find a list of foreign hostages killed in Iraq from AFP as reported in Turkish Press. I do not believe the list is complete, but it is a start. Let us never forget the victims of an ideology that justifies the calculated murder of innocents. AMERICANS

-- Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong, employees of a Gulf-based contractor, were beheaded by Al-Qaeda-linked militants demanding the release of Iraqi women prisoners after being seized with colleague Bigley on September 16.

-- Nicholas Berg, 26, a Jewish-American businessman was beheaded by Al-Qaeda-linked militants in May after being kidnapped the previous month.

BRITONS

-- November 16, The family of Margaret Hassan, a British-Irish aid worker, said she had probably been killed by her captors. A video received but not broadcast by the Al-Jazeera channel showed a blind-folded woman being shot and the British government also said she was probably dead.

-- October 8, the family of Kenneth Bigley, an employee of a Gulf-based contractor, said it had "absolute proof" that he was killed by his abductors.

BULGARIANS

-- On August 11, Bulgaria confirmed that truck driver Ivailo Kepov, 32, had been beheaded by a group linked to the Al-Qaeda network. He and another truck driver, Georgy Lazov, 30, were kidnapped on July 8 near Mosul.

Lazov was also beheaded and his body identified on July 22 after it was found floating in the River Tigris.

ITALIANS

-- On August 26, the so-called Islamic Army in Iraq said it executed Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni, who went missing with two French reporters.

In April, Fabrizio Quattrocchi, one of four private security contractors who were kidnapped, was shot dead within days. The others were freed in June during an operation by US-led forces.

LEBANESE

-- Hussein Olayyan, 26, a telecommunications employee, had his throat slit in June after disappearing near Fallujah.

MACEDONIANS

-- On Oct 22, Macedonian officials identified from television footage two Macedonians -- Zoran Nasovski and Dalibor Lazarevski -- they said had been executed by Islamic extremists in Iraq. The body of a third victim was unknown. Nasovski and Lazarevski were kidnapped along with a third Macedonian, Dragan Markovic.

NEPALIS

-- On August 31, 12 workers taken hostage in Iraq by Al-Qaeda-linked militants were executed, according to footage posted on an Islamist website.

PAKISTANIS

-- In late July, migrant workers Sajid Naeem, 29, and Azad Hussein Khan, 49, were killed by Islamic militants.

SOUTH KOREANS

-- In June, Islamic militants beheaded Kim Sun-Il, 30, after the South Korean government rejected an ultimatum to scrap plans to deploy more than 3,000 troops to Iraq and withdraw over 600 already in the country.

TURKS

-- On September 13, grisly footage of the execution of Turkish trucker Durmus Kumdereli was posted on an Islamist website.

-- On September 2, militants said they had killed three other Turkish drivers, as the bodies of three Turks were found on the roadside north of Baghdad.

-- Fellow Turkish driver Murat Yuce was executed and a video of his killing was released on August 2.

UNKNOWN

-- The body of a blonde woman with her legs and arms cut off and throat slit was found on November 14 lying on a street in Fallujah, a notorious Iraqi enclave for hostage-takers, US marines said.

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