Afghan Kidnappers Demand 25 Taleban’s Release

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Reuters, Agence France Presse, Arab News

KABUL, 3 November 2004 — An Afghan group holding three foreign UN workers has given negotiators a list of Taleban prisoners and said it will kill the hostages unless they — and all Afghans jailed in Guantanamo Bay — are freed. The Afghan Islamic Press said the Jaish-e-Muslimeen (Army of Muslims) had handed over the names of at least 25 Taleban followers jailed in Afghanistan whose release it was demanding.

“The United Nations has asked for the list of prisoners and we have given a list of at least 25 people inside Afghanistan,” AIP quoted the group’s leader Mulla Sayed Mohammad Akbar Agha as saying. “But we can’t give a list for the Guantanamo Bay prisoners. There are many Afghan prisoners there. All of them should be released,” Agha said.

The UN workers — Filipino Angelito Nayan, Annetta Flanigan from Northern Ireland and Shqipe Hebibi from Kosovo — were snatched from a busy Kabul street on Thursday, sparking fears that Afghan fihgters were copying the tactics of insurgents in Iraq. The Pakistan-based AIP did not say if it had the list.

Agha earlier told Reuters that tomorrow’s noon (0730 GMT) deadline for the prisoner release remained in place for now but could be extended if negotiations progressed...

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