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| Iraq: Seven Hostages Released, Three Killed | |
| 2004-06-12 | |
Seven Turkish hostages seized in Iraq this week were freed on Saturday, but a Lebanese and two Iraqi hostages abducted in a separate incident were killed, diplomats said. The Turks, employees of Turkish food services and construction firm Serkat Insaat, were kidnapped by gunmen in the restive town of Falluja on Monday. Dubai-based Al Arabiya television aired a videotape on Thursday showing what it said were four of the seven held by a group calling itself the Jihad Squadrons, an Iraqi Islamist group, which demanded that Turkish companies leave Iraq. "They have been released, they are in good health," a Turkish diplomat in Baghdad told Reuters, adding that the seven former captives were on their way home to Turkey. "No one has claimed responsibility," the diplomat said, declining to say whether the embassy had helped to negotiate their release.
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| #1 The three killed had their throats slashed...not mentioned in this article but I found it in another. http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,3367,4789_W_1233895,00.html "Kidnappers cut throat of 3 hostages in Iraq" Iraqi insurgents blah, blah Savagely killing their own. Well, on the bright side, this is better than their killing our GI's. |
| Posted by: rex 2004-06-12 1:20:18 PM |