[Excerpt: The Abu al-Shih company has stopped all its activities in Iraq, Ibrahim al-Zubi told Aljazeera on Wednesday....Al-Zubi was speaking after the abduction on Tuesday of one of his drivers, Turki al-Braizat, by a group calling itself the Squads of the Unification Lions.]
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C555E377-EE19-4F03-B560-E34E12CF27D9.htm Jordan company heeds captors' threat Wednesday 15 September 2004, 14:02 Makka Time, 11:02 GMT The owner of a Jordanian truck company has announced he will stop supplying fuel to US-led forces and Iraqi authorities to save the life of a driver held captive in Iraq. The Abu al-Shih company has stopped all its activities in Iraq, Ibrahim al-Zubi told Aljazeera on Wednesday. Al-Zubi was speaking after the abduction on Tuesday of one of his drivers, Turki al-Braizat, by a group calling itself the Squads of the Unification Lions. The hitherto unknown group announced in a videotape aired on Aljazeera that it had seized al-Braizat and would kill him within 48 hours unless his company pulled out of Iraq. "We have returned all Jordanian trucks from the Iraqi borders to the Jordanian oil refinery," al-Zubi said. "There have been no direct contacts between us and the captors, but we have contacted tribal shaikhs to find a solution to the problem." He added his company was willing to meet other demands of the group if there were any. Release moves "We have not learned the identity of the kidnappers yet, except that they are resistance," he said. The captors claimed in the television footage that al-Braizat "admitted to ferrying fuel to the US army". In the statement on Wednesday morning, al-Zubi admitted his truck company "transports petroleum products to the Iraqi government or the coalition forces in Iraq", although a senior company executive said on Tuesday the firm had no dealings with US troops in Iraq. A Jordanian foreign ministry spokesman said al-Zubi signed the statement after a visit to the ministry. "We have contacted our embassy in Baghdad who are trying to make the necessary contacts to win the release of al-Breizat," the spokesman said. "We are on top of things," he added, declining to give further details. Al-Breizat's son, Yusuf, vowed on Tuesday to move heaven and earth to secure his father's release after learning of his capture. Abductions "Crying and wailing over this will not help," he said, adding his father went to Iraq 10 days ago. "I tried to call him but his mobile phone was switched off," he said. Jordanians have been among dozens of foreigners, many of them truck drivers, seized by armed groups in Iraq seeking to put pressure on overseas employers or governments to pull out. Three Jordanians taken captive along with a Sudanese national were released by their captors on 6 September. Jordan also secured the release of eight of its citizens taken in Iraq in July and August. Aljazeera + Agencies enditem ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
