Egyptian Hostage to Be Freed
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}An Egyptian man held hostage by insurgents will be freed Sunday, his employer told the Al-Jazeera television Saturday, days after the company said it would agree to a demand to leave Iraq.
Faisal al-Naheet, owner of the Al-Jarie Transport (search) company, told Al-Jazeera that the militants who kidnapped Alsayeid Mohammed Alsayeid Algarabawi (search) had called to say the Egyptian driver would be released Sunday.
Al-Jazeera played a video Saturday showing Algarabawi kneeling in front of four masked men, some of whom held guns.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The group holding him, the Iraqi Legitimate Resistance (search), had demanded the Saudi company leave Iraq within 72 hours. The group issued no specific threat.
Al-Naheet said Wednesday his company would agree to the demand. Al-Naheet said the kidnappers also were demanding a $1 million ransom but his company would not pay. He did not mention the demands on Saturday.
The group said Algarabawi was snatched from a fuel truck he was driving from Saudi Arabia to the U.S. military in Iraq.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Last month, another Egyptian driver, Victor Tawfiq Gerges, was released after being held hostage by a militant group for more than two weeks.