Hoaxed?

The "Atwar Bahjat Execution Video" is not that of Atwar Bahjat, but another hostage who was executed in 2004.

The Jawa Report can reveal that the Times and Halal Jabar, the author of the article, are victims of a hoax. The video actually shows the gruesome murder of a Nepalese man by the Army of Ansar al-Sunna in Iraq from August of 2004. The man was one of 12 victims executed by the terrorist organization--the other 11 were shot (original story, video, and images of 12 Nepalese murdered in Iraq here).

So much for the multiple layers of fact checking and rigorous controls on content production.

This doesn't mean that Bahjat wasn't executed. She was. It's just that this particular video isn't what it is purported to be by the Sunday Times.