Cairo, Sept 17, SPA -- Al-Jazeera television aired videofootage Saturday it said was of a British and two Americanhostages, blindfolded and under threat of execution in 48hours unless female Iraqi prisoners are freed. Members of Tawhid and Jihad, a group led by key suspect Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, would kill the men in 48hours unless the United States and Britain release Iraqiwomen detained at Abu Ghraib and Umm Qasr prisons,al-Jazeera's announcer reported. British troops are stationed in Umm Qasr, in southernIraq, and American forces still have a presence at AbuGhraib, a prison near Baghdad that was the scene of ascandal involving U.S. soldiers sexually abusing maleprisoners. Fears about treatment of women inmates havemultiplied since then. The video was the first word on the men, said to beAmericans Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong and BritonKenneth Bigley, since their abduction early Thursday. Anarmed militant held his rifle pointing downward at the headof one of the three men, who were blindfolded, seated andappeared to be unharmed. Al-Jazeera, a Qatar-based Arab satellite news station,showed only a brief clip, without audio although twohostages appeared to be speaking.--SPA1244 Local Time 0944 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/202654