More beheadings threats
2004-07-31 22:02
Doha - The group of al-Qaeda-linked operative Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi said on Saturday it had kidnapped two drivers from a Turkish firm in Iraq and threatened to behead them in 48 hours if the company did not pull out of the country, Al-Jazeera TV said.
"The Jamaat al-Tawhid wa al-Jihad (Unification and Holy War group) in Iraq announced that it had abducted two drivers working for a Turkish firm which ferries goods to US forces in Iraq from Turkey," said Al-Jazeera, which aired footage of the two presumed captives.
"In a video, the group named the two men as Abdul Rahman Demir and Said Anwar. The group gave the company, named Kahramanli, 48 hours to cease its activities in Iraq and stop ... supplying material to US forces, otherwise it will implement what it called Islamic Sharia laws against the two drivers by beheading them," it said.
- AFP