Kidnapped lorry driver to be released

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.

In a video broadcast on July 29, Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s terrorist group Tawhid and Jihad threatened to behead Ali Ahmed Moussa within 48 hours if his company failed to leave the country.