| Three UN workers held hostage by militants in Afghanistan have appeared in a video shown by Arabic TV. The three appeared unharmed in the video, in which their kidnappers called for the release of prisoners from Afghan jails and Guantanamo Bay. Filipino Angelito Nayan, Annetta Flanigan from Northern Ireland and Shqipe Habibi from Kosovo were seized on Thursday at gunpoint. They were in Afghanistan to help organise recent presidential elections. In the video footage, the three hostages were shown crouching against a wall beside a masked man. A man off camera asks the hostages why they have come to Afghanistan. "There are many organisations that come here and do many things for the Afghan people - build roads, build schools, irrigate fields," a tearful Ms Flanigan replies. "And we thought that it's also useful to come here in Kabul in Afghanistan - we didn't come to do any harm." |