Foreign Minister Solomon Pasi told state radio today that Bulgaria has contacted the U.S. government about reports that militants said they will kill the two civilian truck drivers unless U.S.-led forces free prisoners. But he gave no other details.
The threat, reportedly from a group headed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, comes in a videotape aired by the Al-Jazeera television station.
Another group of militants threatened yesterday to kill a Filipino hostage unless the Phillipines withdrew its troops from Iraq.
Elsewhere in Iraq yesterday, five U.S. soldiers and two Iraqi guards were killed in a mortar attack in the city of Samarra some 100 kilometers north of Baghdad. Another U.S. soldier died in Baghdad yesterday when armed men attacked his patrol.
(AP/Reuters)
The threat, reportedly from a group headed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, comes in a videotape aired by the Al-Jazeera television station.
Another group of militants threatened yesterday to kill a Filipino hostage unless the Phillipines withdrew its troops from Iraq.
Elsewhere in Iraq yesterday, five U.S. soldiers and two Iraqi guards were killed in a mortar attack in the city of Samarra some 100 kilometers north of Baghdad. Another U.S. soldier died in Baghdad yesterday when armed men attacked his patrol.
(AP/Reuters)
