MILITANT GROUP THREATENS TO KILL LEBANESE HOSTAGE IN IRAQ
Al-Manar Television, Beirut
12 Sep 05
Excerpt from report by Lebanese Hezbollah TV Al-Manar on 12 September
[Passage omitted] In a related development, an armed Iraqi group
has threatened to kill a Lebanese citizen it had abducted, saying
that he works for an alcohol distribution company that deals with
the occupiers. This came in a videotape posted on the Internet. The
self-proclaimed Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice Group,
said that it will release the abducted Lebanese citizen if the company
for which he works leaves Iraq as soon as possible, or else, the
statement added, the company and the abducted citizen will face dire
consequences. Speaking in the videotape, the hostage introduced himself
saying that he holds Lebanese and Cypriot nationality, adding that his
name is Gharabit. His Armenian family name was not clear in the tape.