Militants purportedly linked to al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said on Saturday they had kidnapped two truck drivers in Iraq (news - web sites) and would behead them in 48 hours unless their Turkish company quit the country.
The kidnapping was the latest in a growing wave of hostage-taking that has hit Iraq since April as guerrillas wage a campaign to undermine U.S.-led forces and Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's interim government.
Al Jazeera screened a video tape showing the two drivers in front of a group of masked gunmen and said the militants had vowed to behead the hostages unless their firm stopped supplying the U.S. military in Iraq and quit the country completely.
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