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Baghdad — Iraqi insurgents who kidnapped an American threatened in a videotape released Saturday to kill and mutilate him, unless U.S. forces withdraw from the city Fallujah.

Meanwhile, insurgents holding three Japanese hostage said they would be freed in 24 hours. The captors had threatened to burn the civilians alive, unless Japan pulls its troops out of Iraq, a demand Japan refused.

The tape of the American, broadcast on the Arab TV station Al-Jazeera, showed him identifying himself as Thomas Hammil, 43, from Mississippi. In other footage with no audio, he stood in front of an Iraqi flag, his expression calm but wary as his captors announced their threat on his life.

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