Libyan leader calls for release of U.S. hostage in Baghdad

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By Associated Press, 1/26/2005 14:53

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on Wednesday called on Iraqi insurgents to release a U.S. hostage, responding to the captive's plea for his intervention.

In a videotape broadcast Tuesday, Roy Hallums asked Arab leaders, singling out Gadhafi, to save his life. The video showed Hallums, 56, speaking with a rifle barrel pointed at his head.

''As a response to the begging, we ask the Iraqi resistance in the name of Islam and Arabism to free him, implementing the principle of forgiveness,'' the Arab satellite news channel Al-Jazeera quoted Gadhafi as saying in a statement.

Gunmen seized Hallums in November with Robert Tarongoy of the Philippines at their compound in Baghdad's Mansour district. The two worked for a Saudi company that does catering for the Iraqi army. The Filipino was not shown in the video.
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