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| TV: Militants Threaten to Kill Hostages |
| 2005-04-23 |
| Three kidnapped Romanian journalists and their Iraqi-American translator say in a video that they will be killed by their Iraqi captors if Romania does not withdraw its troops within four days, Al-Jazeera reported Friday. In the video shown by the Arab satellite station, the Romanians — two men and a woman — sit cross-legged against a black background with their hands chained. A hand is seen on the right pointing a pistol at the hostages. Reporter Marie Jeanne Ion, sitting between her two colleagues, is seen talking and gesturing with her hands to the camera. Prima TV cameraman Sorin Miscoci appears upset, possibly crying. Al-Jazeera did not play the audio, but it quoted Ion as saying the Iraqi militants holding them had given the Romanian government four days from the date of the tape's broadcast to remove its 800 soldiers in Iraq. Otherwise, the captives will be killed, Al-Jazeera quoted her as saying. Rest at link. |
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