WAR: Turk freed by kidnappers in Iraq, page 1

Midhat Civi was taken hostage and threatened with beheading by a group calling itself the Noman Brigades-Islamic Resistance Movement. But now the Turkish truck driver has been released by his Kidnappers the day after his employers said they would pull out of the country and stop co-operating" with US troops.

BBC NEWS

The abduction of Mr Civi was announced two days ago by a group calling itself the Islamic Resistance Movement - Noman Brigades.

In a video aired by al-Arabiya television he said his captors, whom he called "brothers", had treated him well and he called on Turkish drivers to stop taking goods to Iraq.

At least two Turkish drivers have been killed by their kidnappers in Iraq in recent months. Several others have been freed after their employers ended operations in Iraq.

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Another hostage free just days after his Kidnappers took him, I think its a case of who you are taken bye maybe the one doing all the beheadings are Saddams the republican guards? Who are most loyal to him and not yet been taken by US forces. Still I bet he's glad to be a free man,

[edit on 6/9/2004 by SE7EN]