Saudi Firm to Quit Iraq to Save Egyptian Hostage

[UpInArms]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=5673920

RIYADH (Reuters) - A Saudi company said on Wednesday it would pull out of Iraq to meet the demands of kidnappers holding an Egyptian truck driver hostage.

"We are withdrawing from Iraq immediately to save the life of our driver Mr. (Mohammed) Gharabawi," Faisal al-Neheit, owner of Faisal al-Neheit Transport Company told Reuters.

"We ask them to release him immediately," Neheit earlier said in an appeal on Arabic satellite television Al Jazeera.

On Tuesday, the channel showed a video tape of armed men threatening to kill Gharabawi within 72 hours if the Saudi firm did not pull out of Iraq.

It showed the Egyptian kneeling in front of the two militants, urging fellow drivers not to head to Iraq.

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[rocktivity]

1. Toro turd

They had to have been planning to leave anyway--this gives them a way to do it gracefully.

:headbang:
rocknation

[leesa]

2. New US business tactics?? Someone cutting into US

corporate profits BushCo sends a hit man?