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BEHEADINGS ISLAMIC TERRORIST TACTICS

Kenneth Bigley, the Briton held by kidnappers in Iraq, appeared in internet video footage last night pleading with Tony Blair to take action which could save his life. For the most part composed but with desperation in his voice, the 62-year-old addressed the prime minister directly, telling him he was the only person on earth who could save his life.

"I think this is possibly my last chance to speak to somebody who will listen," he said in the grainy tape, which appeared to show him against a black and white background with Arabic writing on it.

"I need you to be compassionate as you always said you were and help me to live so I can see my wife and son and brothers again." Several times he raised his hand to his head, rubbing his face in despair. "I need you to help me now, Mr Blair, because you are the only person on God's earth who can help me."

There were few signs that the harrowing video plea would produce any sort of deal with the British government. Jack Straw, Britians foreign secretary, said: "It's adding torture to the appalling situation which these evil terrorists have placed Mr Bigley in. I'm afraid to say it cannot alter the position of the British government."

It was not possible to confirm when the video was filmed, but it is assumed to have been produced by the Tawhid and Jihad [Unification and Holy War] group which kidnapped Mr Bigley and two Americans last week. Both the Americans were beheaded within the past three days of the video.

Kenneth Bigley's Islamic Fascist Kidnappers had demanded that all women prisoners in Iraq be freed as the price for his release.

The chief aim of the Islamic Terrorists appears to be to terrify those working for or alongside the US-led military and to demonstrate that a small group of militants can operate in Iraq in defiance of the presence of 140,000 American troops.

"What the organisation is doing through the use of beheadings, videoing, and websites is deliberately structured to be spectacular and gratuitous," said Mr Dodge. "It's about spreading horror and making Iraq a no-go area for non-Arabs."

And in another wretched development, a second militant group said that it had killed two female Italian aid workers abducted in Baghdad earlier this month.

US officials recovered from a Baghdad street the body of Jack Hensley, the second American contractor to die. Militants later released a video apparently showing his execution, a day after similar footage of the beheading of his colleague Eugene Armstrong was broadcast.

No negotiations with terrorists continue to be the strict policy. To Negotiate or Appease will only give them more ambition for the further spread of their evil. They need a stronger response from Bush Blair and other leaders.