Posted on 07/27/2004 7:10:21 AM PDT by ICX
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Relatives of two Jordanian drivers abducted in Iraq threatened Tuesday to behead the director of the company the hostages work for and to kill all the firm's employees if the director fails to immediately comply with the kidnappers' demands to cease operations in Iraq.
Fayez Saad al-Udwan and Ahmed Salama Hassan — who work as drivers for the private Jordanian company Daoud and Partners (search) — were kidnapped Monday by a group calling itself the Mujahedeen Corps (search) in Iraq. The group warned the captives would be killed within 72 hours unless their employer withdrew from Iraq and stopped cooperating with U.S forces.
The company provides construction and catering services to the U.S. military in Iraq.
Al-Udwan's brother, Omar, said: "We told the firm's executive director, Rami al-Ouweiss, that if he does not comply with the kidnappers' demands today, his company and the lives of his employees will not be spared."
"We will chop off the head of the firm's director if he doesn't heed to our demands to completely cease his operation in Iraq," Hassan's father, Salama, said.
Both men spoke to reporters at a gathering of male relatives from the two families outside the Amman offices of Daoud and Partners to demand the closure of the company's Iraq operations.
Loua'i al-Umeish, one of the company's managers, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that the company would make an announcement related to its operations in Iraq later in the day, but refused to provide details.
There was no immediate comment from the government about the threats.
After the gathering, four policemen confiscated videotape and film from the media, including from an AP photographer. The policemen said they had instructions from the government that the event should not be recorded, then told journalists to leave.
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These people are psychotic.
This branch of hominids are headed for extinction.
These folks sure do have a penchant for the head-chopping thing.
Eating their own, AKA, coming home to roost with the chickens.
I tell ya, some people will resort to anything in an effort to save the life of a loved one. Killing others will not help.
I think he might have something to say about that. What is wrong with these people????????
And we are still letting these people into our Country!
Seeing how easy it is for these terrorists murdering thugs to kidnap innocent civilians, why hasn't their been some kind of undercover trap to capture them? How difficult would it be for the Iraqi authorities to set up a group of Iraqi police officers and send them out in trucks pretending to deliver food to the American and coalition forces. Once the trap is set and the thugs believe that they have themselves some hostages, open fire on the SOB's and mow them down right there in the middle of the road.
If they do this a few times, I bet the amount of attacks on innocent civilians would drop dramatically.
And yet no one bothers to go after the head choppers.
I wonder if this hasn't been done already. It's not like the media would ever report a military success like that.
The shock value is rapidly being replaced with the comedic value. It is very hard to take these guys seriously.
" How difficult would it be for the Iraqi authorities to set up a group of Iraqi police officers and send them out in trucks pretending to deliver food to the American and coalition forces."
Imagine an operation like this run by the Keystone Cops for an idea of "how difficult it would be." No one over there is smarter than a bag of rocks.
Relatives of construction company employees threatened with death by the relatives of two Jordanian drivers abducted in Iraq, threatened Tuesday to kill every family member of the drivers if the drivers relatives kill construction company employees for failing to immediately comply with the kidnappers' demands to cease operations in Iraq.
In a related story, Roger Moore declared that all Americans are stupid F---C---s.
He must be related, to Michael Moore. LOL
Seriesly.
This wave of kidnappings is very frustrating, as is the capitulation that encourages it.
>He must be related, to Michael Moore. LOL
>Seriesly.
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