A militant group said today it would release a Somali truck driver it kidnapped after the Kuwaiti company he works for agreed to stop working in Iraq, al-Jazeera television said.

The terrorist group of Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's has kidnapped a Somali truck driver in Iraq and threatened to behead him if his Kuwaiti company does not stop working there, according to a videotape broadcast by Al-Jazeera today.