http://msnbc.msn.com/ID/5396761Earlier Saturday, a Pakistani man who returned home after being freed by Iraqi hostage-takers said he saw three fellow captives beheaded.
Amjad Hafeez, 26, who worked as a driver in Iraq for an American company, was released on July 2 after eight days in captivity. He arrived home on Friday.
Hafeez said that the insurgents had locked him in a small room soon after kidnapping him.
"After three days, I was taken to a room where two foreigners and an Iraqi were killed by a fat Iraqi man with sword," he told The Associated Press.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_10-7-2004_pg7_26Amjad Hafeez requests audience with Musharraf: ‘I have secret information for the president’
By Ayesha Javed
LAHORE: Amjad Hafeez has requested President General Pervez Musharraf for an audience, saying that his Iraqi captors passed on some important information to him, which he would like to share with the president. <snip>
Amjad said he was kept in captivity for three days, and when he tried to learn the identity of his captors, they told him they were mujahideen.
On the fourth day in captivity, he said he was taken to another room where three other hostages were held. “From their (the hostages) conversation with them (the captors), I could make out that two of them were English-speaking while the third one was an Iraqi,” he said. “But I didn’t get to see their faces. Then a heavy-set man walked forward and beheaded each one of them, reciting Allah-o-Akbar every time he brought the blade down.” Amjad said that the beheadings took place late at night and claimed that the bodies were thrown in a car and taken away. <snip>
http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=70185<snip>He said, "The kidnappers in front of me slaughtered two US marines and an Iraqi, after which I become sacred and knew I would be next" . <snip>
http://www.geo.tv/main_files/pakistan.aspx?id=28446The sentiments which he is feeling after the release cannot be narrated and expressed, Amjad said adding he has got a new life. He also stated that he has no connections with any jihadi outfit. Talking about captors, Amjad said that initially they recognized him as an American agent tortured him but later their treatment has been changed after they came to know that I am Pakistani and muslim. They also beheaded three people, he added.
After completing of leave after two month, he will depart to Kuwait to resume his service in the Kuwaiti company.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow/773353.cmsHafeez, employed with the American firm Kellogg Brown and Root, said he had already briefed US officials about his three-day ordeal in Iraq, but added that he had to see Musharraf and inform him about some "serious and secret information."
Hafeez was abducted late last month and his Iraqi captors had threatened to behead him if the US-led occupation forces did not release locals detained in Iraqi prisons within next 72 hours.
The insurgents who identified themselves as the al-Mujahedeen Brigade (the holy warriors), reportedly backed by al-Qaida, said they would release the men without conditions after their Turkish company promised to stop working for US forces in Iraq.
Hafeez, a resident of Rawalakot district in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, is the family's sole bread-earner.
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