JihadTV has a videotape showing one of the Italian hostages in Iraq being murdered: Al-Jazeera: Italian Hostage Killed on Tape.

CAIRO, Egypt - An Arab network broadcast a report Wednesday that it has a video showing the killing of one of four Italian hostages being held by militants in Iraq.

Al-Jazeera told The Associated Press that the footage shows the four sitting on the ground, holding up their passports and surrounded by armed men. The satellite station said the tape showed the death of one of the hostages, but did not broadcast it to “protect the audience’s feelings.”

An Al-Jazeera employee at the newsdesk in Doha, Qatar, did not know how the station got the tape.

The tape was accompanied by a statement, from a previously unknown group called the Green Battalion, which threatened to “kill the three remaining Italian hostages one after the other, if their demands are not met.”