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Bulgarian Hostage Killed in Iraq
Insurgents killed a Bulgarian hostage in Iraq and vowed to kill a second Bulgarian within 24 hours, al-Jazeera television reported Tuesday. The Arab satellite station said it had decided not to broadcast a videotape of the killing because it was Bulgaria, which has contributed 470 troops to U.S.-led forces in Iraq, confirmed that one of the two truck drivers had been killed. "One of the Bulgarians has been executed," said Bulgarian government spokesman Dimitar Tsonev. Bulgaria, which has said it will keep its troops in Iraq as long as they are needed, had urged the militants to release Georgi Lazov, 30, and Ivailo Kepov, 32, who disappeared June 27. There was no word on which man had been killed. The Monotheism and Jihad Group, which had asserted responsibility for the beheading of an American and a South Korean in Iraq, threatened Thursday to kill the Bulgarians within 24 hours unless U.S.-led forces freed all Iraqi detainees. The U.S. military has branded the group's leader, Jordanian-born Abu Musab Zarqawi, its number one target in Iraq, saying he is behind much of the violence racking the country.
Posted by: Steve White 2004-07-14 |
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