Bulgarian hostage Beheaded
The Doha-based broadcast said it had decided not to air a video tape from the captors, because it was too gruesome.
"I am speechless," Reuters quoted as saying Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, whose country has contributed 470 troops to US-led forces in Iraq .
His deputy Gergana Grancharova said: "We all saw the cruel video scenes. The news is true and shattering."
Government officials would not disclose which of the two truck drivers, Georgi Lazov, 30, and Ivailo Kepov, 32, had been killed. The men disappeared on June 27.
Lazov’s mother Maria was shown on Bulgarian television weeping uncontrollably and saying: "I don’t blame anyone. There was nothing more anyone could do."
The Philippines bowed Tuesday to demands of another Iraqi group holding one of its citizens hostage and decided to put ahead the withdrawal of its 50 soldiers from Iraqi scheduled on August 20.
Iraqis have seized dozens of foreigners since April to press demands for foreign troops to leave their country.
Many hostages have been freed but at least three have been beheaded, including an American and a South Korean.
Islam does not permit any measure that causes harm or humiliation to any human being, let alone killing him/her in cold blood or slaying them like a sheep for everyone to see.
