Monday, May 07, 2007
Destiny of German hostages remains unknown
Kidnapping
(Asharq Al Awsat Newspaper) - 5 MAY - A German Foreign Ministry spokesman announced that Berlin is still concerned about the destiny of the German hostages who have been kidnapped in Iraq for the past three months. In Berlin, Martin Yeager, said that the Foreign Ministry’s Crisis Room is working hard for the safe return of the hostages, 61-year-old Hannelore Kraus and her twenty-year-old son. The kidnapping occurred February 6th in Baghdad by a group that calls itself, The Battalions of the Arrows of Righteousness. The group has demanded the withdrawal of German forces from Afghanistan in exchange for the hostage’s release which has been rejected by the German government because they refuse this type of extortion.
Labels: abduction, Germans, Hannelore Krause, hostages, Martin Yeager, The Battalions of the Arrows of Righteousness
