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U.S. says Iraq is under control
Last Updated Thu, 08 Apr 2004 23:59:20

BAGHDAD - In a chilling new development, militants are threatening to burn alive three Japanese hostages if Japan does not withdraw its troops from Iraq in three days.

But when asked by reporters on Friday if he intended to pull his country's troops out of Iraq Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi ws blunt. "No," he said.
There is no word on the fate of the hostages who have been identified as two aid workers and a journalist.

Ottawa says a Syrian-born Canadian has also been seized in a separate incident. The hostage, Fadi Ihsan Fadel, was working for the New York-based relief group International Rescue Committee when he was seized early on Wednesday morning.

The images from Iraq on Thursday were as violent as anything from the invasion a year ago.

A video delivered to the Arab language television network Al-Jazeera shows the three Japanese hostages being threatened with guns and knives as their captors shout "God is great" in Arabic. The video was also shown on Japanese television.

Eight South Koreans either escaped, or were released by another group of militants.

In the south, the militia of the Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr controls parts of at least two cities, and the Sunni city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, remains under tight siege and attack by the American military.

In spite of the pictures of American soldiers under attack and dying, American commanders and political leaders remain upbeat. Iraq is under control, they say.

"The mission is going particularly well. We made inroads into the city and are driving the enemy to a position of disadvantage," said U.S. marine Lt. Col. Greg Olsen.

But the television images of helicopters firing into civilian areas, a city under siege, humanitarian aid being held up are clearly angering the Arab world. U.S. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez was accused by Arab reporters of creating another Palestine, violating human rights and starving Fallujah.

"We are not cutting off humanitarian aid and food to the city of Fallujah," he said. "You all need to listen to me ... We are going to eliminate these forces from the battlefield. And we will be benevolent in victory."

Hundreds of Iraqis and dozens of Americans have died in just the past few days and the date for handover of political power is just 12 weeks away.

Written by CBC News Online staff

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