One Bulgarian hostage killed

The armed groups in Iraq yesterday resumed the process of killing hostages by killing one of the kidnapped Bulgarians and threats to kill the second within 24 hours if the American occupation forces will not release all detainees held in its jails, while threatening to kill one Egyptian hostage if the Saudi company for which he works does not withdraw from Iraq.

The Bulgarian government yesterday stressed that one of its kidnapped citizens in Iraq was killed by his kidnappers. The spokesman for the Bulgarian government said " one of the two Bulgarian hostages was killed and we did not get information on his identity." he added that " All Bulgarian establishments spare no efforts and we have to continue praying for the next 24 hours to rescue the life of the second Bulgarian hostage.

Earlier, the Qatari al-Jazeera TV said that " al-Tawhid Wal-Jihad " group led by the Jordanian Abu Mus'an al-Zarqawi sent it a video tape showing the beheading of one of the two Bulgarian hostages if the American army will not release within 24 hours all Iraqi detainees it holds.

Al-Jazeera added that the kidnappers of one Egyptian driver held in Iraq threatened to kill him within 72 hours if the Saudi company in which he works will not withdraw from Iraq. al-Jazeera showed sketches for the Egyptian hostage Muhammad al-Gharabawi kneeling before two of his armed kidnappers.