Kidnappers threaten to kill foreign hostages in three days in Afghanistan

  • 12/15/2022
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Kabul, Oct 31, SPA -- A video apparently showing threeforeign election workers kidnapped in Afghanistan was shownon Arab television Sunday. The video was the firmest evidence yet that the three arein the hands of a Taliban splinter group which hasthreatened to kill them unless British troops leaveAfghanistan and the United States frees Afghan prisoners. A spokesman for Jaish-al Muslimeeen, which claims itseized the hostages on Thursday on a busy Kabul street,said it would execute them in three days unless the UnitedNations and British troops leave Afghanistan. "They have to comply with our demands in three days,otherwise we will kill these three" Ishaq Manzoor told TheAssociated Press in a satellite telephone call. "Like inIraq, the U.N. has to leave." The footage on al-Jazeera television showed the threehostages, two women and one man, sitting hunched against awall in a room in an undisclosed location. A militantwearing a checkered scarf around his face was also shown. The three appeared well, if nervous, on the brief extractshown early Sunday afternoon. Manzoor said the kidnappers were also demanding therelease of all Muslim prisoners from U.S. custody inGuantanamo Bay, Cuba, and from Bagram, the main Americanbase north of Kabul. He claimed the group was negotiating with the Afghangovernment but declined to elaborate.--SPA1259 Local Time 0959 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/214439

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