Embassy Employee Held Hostage in Iraq
Abductors of a Jordanian Embassy driver said they would kill him unless Jordan pulled its diplomats from Iraq and freed a failed female suicide bomber, Al Arabiya television reported.
Sajida Rishawi said on Jordanian television last month that she had tried to blow herself up alongside her husband in hotel attacks in Amman, the capital.
A video issued by the little-known group Falcons Brigade showed a man identifying himself as Mahmoud Saedat, a driver kidnapped Tuesday in Baghdad, and three masked, armed militants.
A government spokesman said Jordan would not give in to the kidnappers.
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