IRAQ – SEPTEMBER 29, 2004 Jack Hensley was an American civilian and engineer who was taken hostage in Iraq in 2004 during the war. He worked for a construction company in Baghdad and was kidnapped along with two other Western workers – Eugene Armstrong (also American) and Kenneth Bigley (British).
The abduction was carried out by the group Tawhid wal-Jihad, led by the infamous terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who later founded Al-Qaeda in Iraq, the predecessor of ISIS.
Jack Hensley was brutally executed on September 21, 2004, after the United States refused to meet the kidnappers’ demands to withdraw their troops from Iraq. A video of his execution was released online, shocking the entire world.
