Hostages: New deadline
2004-07-23 20:53
Doha - The captors of seven hostages - three Indians, three Kenyans and an Egyptian - held in Iraq offered a new 48 hour deadline to their Kuwaiti employer to meet their demands, according to a video shown on Al-Jazeera television on Friday.
In the video shown by the Qatar-based news channel, the group calling itself the Black Flags offered the new deadline to the Kuwait and Gulf Link Transport firm for which the men worked.
After earlier demanding that the transport firm pull out of Iraq, the group is now demanding "payment of damages to families of victims of Fallujah and the release of Iraqi detainees from American and Kuwaiti prisons", according to Al-Jazeera.
The group had originally set a deadline of Saturday, saying it would then start to behead one hostage every 72 hours.
- AFP