Six abducted in Iraq, threatened with beheading

Thursday, July 22, 2004

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Militants took six foreign truck drivers hostage and threatened Wednesday to behead them unless their company ends its business in Iraq, and their countries -- India, Egypt and Kenya -- pull all their citizens out.

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