Cairo - Al-Qaeda terrorists in Iraq have threatened to kill 14 soldiers and police officers they abducted earlier, al-Arabiya news channel reported Tuesday. The news channel broadcast a video that Sunni extremists had placed on the internet in which the abducted men appeared in their uniforms.
In a written message to accompany the video, the group said that members of the security forces would be killed if the government in Baghdad did not release all Sunni women held in Iraqi prisons within 72 hours.
The terrorist group had made similar ultimata in earlier abductions of police and soldiers. The kidnap victims were all previously killed.
