must4fa Posted July 29, 2004 MSNBC News Services Updated: 10:01 a.m. ET July 29, 2004BAGHDAD, Iraq - Kidnappers holding seven foreign truck drivers hostage in Iraq threatened to kill one of them Friday if they received no response to their demands. In a videotape given to foreign news organizations on Thursday, the kidnappers did not say which hostage among three Indians, three Kenyans and one Egyptian they were threatening to kill by 7 p.m. (11 a.m. ET) Friday. But the footage showed a masked man pointing an M-16 automatic rifle at the head of an Indian hostage, who was wearing orange clothing and appeared very frightened. "If no one responds to us, we will slaughter one of the hostages Friday, July 30 at 7 p.m.," said a voice on the tape. The drivers work for the Kuwait and Gulf Link Transport company, which had said it was in talks to secure the release of the drivers, who were seized more than a week ago. But the company had said it would not accept demands to pull out of Iraq. Groups of kidnappers have often dressed hostages in orange clothing before killing them, usually by beheading. The clothing mimics the orange jumpsuits worn by prisoners in U.S. detention, including at Guantanamo Bay. In a separate hostage-taking, a militant group linked to al-Qaida ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi seized a Somali driver and said it would behead him in 48 hours unless his Kuwaiti firm stopped work in Iraq, Arabic TV channel Al Jazeera said on Thursday. The announcement came as President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and Pakistan's prime minister condemned the apparent killing of two Pakistanis kidnapped in Iraq, saying their deaths have caused "the greatest harm both to humanity and Islam." Somali threatened with beheading The Somali driver, identified as Ali Ahmed Mousa is seen with three gunmen and his identity card is shown. The channel said it received a statement from Zarqawi's al Tawhid and Jihad group vowing to kill him if their demands were not met. "The group threatened to behead the hostage if the (Kuwaiti) company does not stop its work in Iraq within 48 hours," Al Jazeera quoted the statement as saying. The video showed Mousa briefly sitting and kneeling in front of the camera. It said he worked for a firm transporting food to U.S. forces in Iraq. Earlier on Thursday, Pakistani leaders, in a strongly worded statement issued to the state-run news agency in the capital, Islamabad, said they had "received with the greatest distress and anguish the news of the reported murder of two Pakistanis." "Those who have committed this crime have caused the greatest harm both to humanity and Islam," said the statement, issued on behalf of Musharraf and Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain. The men reiterated Pakistan's commitment to the security and independence of Iraq and said they hoped that Iraq and its people would achieve complete security and stability, free of internal and external turmoil. Source : http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5473325/ ================= these people are no muslims (the terrorist)!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
