Kidnapped Romanians Appear on Video

World | March 31, 2005, Thursday // 00:00

Qatar-based Al-Jazeera Tv station has broadcast a video showing the three Romanian journalists and the US citizen sitting on the floor flanked on both sides by two men pointing machine guns at their heads. One of the seized journalists, Marie Jeanne Ion, said no demand had so far been made by the abductors. The journalists were kidnapped on Monday while on a short assignment to Iraq. Ion and Sorin Miscoci work for Romania's Prima TV while Ovidiu Ohannesian represents Romania Libera newspaper. Meanwhile, the US State Department has confirmed that an American was seized alongside three Romanian journalists. The group who abducted the four would not identify itself.

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