Posted on 08/27/2004 1:10:41 PM PDT by yonif
DOHA, Aug 27 (AFP) - The bodies of two Turkish hostages shot dead have been found in Baiji in northern Iraq, Al-Jazeera television said Friday night in a news flash.
Quoting its own unspecified sources, the Qatar-based satellite news channel said "the bodies of two Turkish hostages executed by gunfire have been found in Baiji," a key oil refinery town in the Sunni Muslim belt that stretches north and west from the Iraqi capital.
It did not immediately give further details.
The reported execution of the two Turks comes just a day after the killing of kidnapped Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni.
Turkey`s NTV news channel on Wednesday aired footage of two Turks, Abdullah Ozdemir and Ali Daskin, both engineers kidnapped from their worksite at an unidentified location in Iraq.
The video showed armed militants threatening to execute them unless their company withdraws from Iraq within 72 hours.
Turkey`s Anatolia news agency later reported that the pair`s employer had announced it was ending operations in Iraq.
The abduction of the two engineers brought to at least six the number of Turks known to be in captivity in Iraq.
Several Turkish men, mostly truck drivers, have been kidnapped in the war-torn country and then released.
But one Turkish hostage was shown on a video posted on Islamist websites on August 2 being blindfolded and shot three times in the head by his hooded captors.
Muslims killing Muslims? How quaint.
Piss the Turks off and Iraq could be in some very deep doo-doo.
"Piss the Turks off and Iraq could be in some very deep doo-doo."
What do you mean? You think Turkey is going to attack Iraq?
Perhaps Kurdistan.
Not that the Kurds have anything to do with the hostage killings.
I am sorry to bring this bad news.
Iraq has oil pipelines in the north that traverse Turkish territory.
"Iraq has oil pipelines in the north that traverse Turkish territory."
Wouldn't it only encourage the killing of more Turks if they shut down the pipelines? Thats what the terrorists want.
quaint?
Man I wish the DoD would have agreed to our 80,000 troops for a partnered northern front..
I too thinks so. At least some of the current problems in the North could've been avoided perhaps. But we are where we are. I just feel sorry for the horrible death of these men, as for all those that preceded them.
welcome to the war....
This stuff is pointless. The bad guys are not going to win, but the will lose even sooner every time they do this kind of thing.
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