Two Polish troops were killed and five wounded in a road accident in Hilla after their patrol was attacked near their Babylon base in southern Iraq, Polish news agency PAP reported on Thursday.
Meanwhile, an Iraqi group calling itself the Martyrs Brigade said it had kidnapped a missing Western journalist and would kill him if U.S. troops did not leave the holy city of Najaf within 48 hours, the Qatar-based television station Al-Jazeera reported Thursday.
It showed a video released by the kidnappers that showed a man, who resembled missing journalist Micah Garen, kneeling in front of five masked men, who were armed with rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers.
According to witnesses, Garen and his Iraqi translator, Amir Doushi, were walking through a market in the southern city of Nasiriyah on Friday when two men in civilian clothes and armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles seized them, police said. (albawaba.com)
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