Fri 9 Apr 2004 12:32am (UK) Leave Iraq Or We'll Burn Hostages Alive, Kidnappers Tell Japan "PA" Rebel fighters terrorised and threatened to burn alive three Japanese civilians unless their country agreed to pull its troops out of Iraq, in a video shown to the world. The rebels armed with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, held knives to the throats of the Japanese, who screamed in terror on the video, released yesterday, and said they would burn them in three days. The kidnappers shouted: “Allahu akbar” – God is great. But Japan’s government said it has no plans to pull...