Militants in Iraq say they have taken hostage a Polish woman and are demanding that Poland withdraw all its troops from the country. Footage showing a woman was passed to the al-Jazeera television network by a group calling itself the Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Fundamentalist Brigades. The militants claim the woman, who has not been named, worked with US forces. A Polish defence ministry official said the woman did not appear to belong to any of Poland's military units in Iraq. Defence Minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski told a Polish television channel he could not verify the kidnap report but no soldiers were missing. He rejected demands for the withdrawal of Poland's 2,500 troops from Iraq, saying: "Poland is not in the business of meeting demands of hostage takers." Iraqi interior ministry spokesman Adnan Abdul Rahman told the Associated Press the woman was a long-standing Iraq resident, with Iraqi citizenship, who had been abducted from her Baghdad home on Wednesday night. | Another one, like the British hostage Margaret Hassan, who had been living there a long time and thought that protected her. |
He did not release her name and her voice was not audible on the tape. The militants' video shows two masked gunmen pointing a pistol at the head of a middle-aged woman with grey hair. | More brave fighters of Islam. Bastards |
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