Iraqi kidnappers threaten to kill British Captives

link with video: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/04/wiraq204.xml

Kidnappers holding five Britons in Iraq today threatened to kill one of them unless British troops leave the country.

In a video released to an Arab television station, a bearded hostage read a brief statement written by his kidnappers, who identified themselves as the Islamic Shia Resistance in Iraq.

Flanked by two masked men carrying assault rifles in front of a black banner, the hostage said: "My name is Jason.

"Today is November 18. I have been here now 173 days and I feel we've been forgotten."

The kidnappers said in a statement that if Britain failed to leave Iraq within 10 days of the date of the broadcast "this hostage will be killed as a first warning, which would be followed with details that you would not want to know".

The footage provided the first sighting of any of the hostages since they were seized in Baghdad on May 29.

The British Government has not disclosed the names of the five men - a computer consultant and his four bodyguards - who were snatched by gunmen wearing police uniforms in a daylight raid on the Iraqi finance ministry building.

"They have confessed and given details of plans in which they came to loot our wealth under the fake cover of being consultants at the finance ministry," the group said on the video.

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hopefully they are only bluffing but I wouldn't count on it