 Two German engineers seized in Iraq this week were shown in a video yesterday appealing for their government to save their lives as Berlin strongly condemned the abduction. The two men, snatched at gunpoint by men in army uniforms, were shown surrounded by four masked men brandishing assault rifles from a group calling itself Ansar Al-Tawheed Wal Sunnah (Followers of Unity and Prophetic Tradition). No demands from the captors were apparently issued but Al-Jazeera television which showed the video said the men pleaded for the German government to intervene to secure their release. “The first contact was made by the kidnappers,” German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told RTL television of the video. “We cannot give any further details about the group.”
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