A List Foreigners Hostage in Iraq

Insurgents in Iraq (news - web sites) have kidnapped dozens of people in their campaign to drive out coalition forces and hamper reconstruction:

_Twelve Nepalese workers. Kidnapped August 23, four days after crossing border while working for Jordan-based construction company. Iraqi militant group claimed responsibility.

_Aytullah Gezmen, of Turkey. Kidnapped July 27 or 28. Worked for Bilintur, Turkish company providing laundry service for Jordanian firm in Iraq.

_Mustafa Koksal and Durmus Kumdereli, Turkish truck drivers. Kidnapped Aug. 14 outside Mosul after delivering water to U.S. base in Baghdad.

_Faridoun Jihani, Iranian consul to Karbala. In video made public Aug. 7, kidnappers accuse Iran of meddling in Iraq's affairs.

_Vlada Abu Ghadi, Lebanese director of Lara construction company. Abducted July 31 in Baghdad.

_Ali Ahmed Moussa, Somali truck driver. In video aired July 29, insurgents threaten to kill him if Kuwaiti employer doesn't leave Iraq.

_Raad Adnan, Iraqi general director of government-owned Al-Mansour Contracting Co. Kidnapped July 24.

_Ibrahim Khamis, Salm Faiz Khamis and Jalal Awadh of Kenya; Antaryami, Tilak Raj and Sukdev Singh of India; Mohammed Ali Sanad of Egypt. Truck drivers abducted July 21. Militants threatened to behead them if Kuwaiti employer keeps doing business in Iraq and their countries do not withdraw citizens.

_Aban Elias, 41, Iraqi-American. Held since May 3 by group calling itself the Islamic Rage Brigade.

_Murat Yuce, of Turkey. Shot and killed in video made public Aug. 2. Worked for Bilintur, Turkish company providing laundry service for Jordanian firm in Iraq.

_Raja Azad, 49, engineer, and Sajad Naeem, 29, driver, both Pakistani, working for Kuwaiti-based firm. Slain July 28. Group calling itself Islamic Army in Iraq said they were killed because Pakistan considering sending troops to Iraq.

_Georgi Lazov, 30, and Ivaylo Kepov, 32, Bulgarian truck drivers. Last heard from June 29. Abducted by militants loyal to Jordanian terror suspect Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Lazov's headless body found July 14 in Tigris River. Kepov's decapitated body found in Tigris July 22.

_U.S. Army Spc. Keith M. Maupin, 20, of Batavia, Ohio. Disappeared April 9 after an attack on a fuel convoy. Arab television reported June 29 that he was killed. U.S. military could not confirm that man shown being shot in videotape was Maupin.

_Kim Sun-il, 33, South Korea (news - web sites) translator. Beheaded June 22 by al-Qaida-linked group.

_Hussein Ali Alyan, 26, Lebanese construction worker. Found shot to death June 12. Lebanese Foreign Ministry says killers sought ransom, not political goal.

_Fabrizio Quattrocchi, 35, Italian security guard. Killed April 14 after being kidnapped April 12. Previously unknown group, the Green Battalion, claimed responsibility.

_Nicholas Berg, 26, American businessman. Beheaded by al-Qaida-linked group after being kidnapped in April.

_Enzo Baldoni, Italian journalist. Arab television reported Aug. 26 it received video footage of Baldoni being killed by militants but did not broadcast tape because of gruesome content. Italian envoy saw tape; Italian President Silvio Berlusconi condemned the killing.

_Thomas Hamill, 44, American truck driver. Escaped May 2 after being wounded in April 9 ambush on fuel convoy.

_Radoslaw Kadri, Polish businessman. Escaped by kicking car window and jumping out near U.S. troops after abduction June 1.

_Abdullah Ozdemir and Ali Daskin, Turkish construction workers. Kidnapped Aug. 25 from a construction site. Released Aug. 29 after their employers bowed to militant demands that they end operations in Iraq in return for the men's safety.

_Micah Garen, freelance Western journalist, and Amir Doushi, Iraqi translator. Seized by gunmen Aug. 13 in Nasiriyah. Garen released after aides of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr appealed for his freedom.

_Taha al-Jundi and Khaldoun Othman, Lebanese truck drivers. Kidnapped early August. Freed Aug. 16.

_James Brandon, British freelance journalist. Kidnapped Aug. 12 from hotel in Basra. Freed Aug. 13.

_Jamal Sadeq al-Salaymeh, Jordanian businessman. Abducted Aug. 9 in Baghdad by kidnappers who demanded $250,000. Freed Aug. 12.

_Antoine Antoun, Lebanese businessman. Abducted in Baghdad July 31. Freed Aug. 10.

_Kassem Murqbawi and Nasser Othman, Lebanese truck drivers. Kidnapped early August. Freed Aug. 9.

_Fayez Saad al-Udwan and Mohammad Ahmed al-Manaya'a, Jordanian truck drivers. Kidnapped July 26. Freed Aug. 9.

_Ahmad Sunokrot, a Jordanian businessman, and Ahmad Abu-Jaafar, Mohammad Khleifat and Khaled Ibrahim Sasoud, Jordanian truck drivers. Kidnapped in late July. Freed Aug. 3 by tribal sheik from Fallujah and his armed men who overpowered kidnappers.

_Abdulrahran Demir and Sait Unurlu, Turkish truck drivers. Released Aug. 4 after Turkish trucking union agreed to halt deliveries to U.S. forces.

_Vladimir Damaa, Lebanese director of a construction company in Baghdad. Freed Aug. 1, a day after being abducted.

_Mehmet Dayar, Turkish driver. Abducted July 17. Freed after promising not to return to Iraq.

_Mohammed Mamdouh Helmi Qutb, Egyptian diplomat. Abducted July 23. Militants said they seized him because Egypt said it would send security experts to Iraq. Freed July 26.

_Iraqi driver Omar Khaled Selman, kidnapped with two Pakistanis. Released July 28 after militants announced the Pakistanis were killed.

_Angelo dela Cruz, Filipino truck driver. Kidnapped July 4. Freed July 22 after Philippines withdrew 51 troops from Iraq.

_Samer Tamaallah Hussein Tamaallah, Jordanian businessman. Rescued in an Aug. 17 police raid on a house in Karbala. Three suspects were detained in the operation.

_Also freed: 13 Turks, five Japanese, three Czechs, three Italians, four Lebanese, two Russians, an Egyptian, a Pakistani, a Frenchman, five Chinese citizens, a Pole, a Syrian-Canadian, and an Arab Christian from East Jerusalem.

_William Bradley and Timothy Bell. American contract truckers last seen April 9 after convoy attack.

_Christian Chesnot and George Malbrunot, French journalists. Disappeared Aug. 21 while apparently driving toward Najaf.

_Marine Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun. Failed to report for duty in Iraq June 20. Videotaped images showed him apparently kidnapped. Emerged unharmed in Lebanon, July 8. Brought back to the United States. Denies having deserted.

Michael Moore: Iraqi terrorists are "minutemen", American troops must shed blood

(April 14, 2004): The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not "insurgents" or "terrorists" or "The Enemy." They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win. Get it, Mr. Bush?....I oppose the U.N. or anyone else risking the lives of their citizens to extract us from our debacle...the majority of Americans supported this war once it began and, sadly, that majority must now sacrifice their children until enough blood has been let that maybe -- just maybe -- God and the Iraqi people will forgive us in the end.

Axis Mikey still has not recanted this position (the Nick Berg video was released shortly after he made these traitorous remarks).

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