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CAIRO - Two female relatives of Iraq’s interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi have been released by their kidnappers after being held hostage for just under a week, Arabic news channels reported late on Sunday.
However, the premier’s cousin Ghazi Allawi, 75, remained in the hands of the kidnappers, who had abducted him alongside his wife and daughter-in-law from their Baghdad home last Tuesday.
The hostage takers, a previously unknown group which called itself Ansar al-Jihad, had demanded an end to the current US-Iraqi offensive on Fallujah and the release of all Iraqi prisoners.
In a message posted on an Islamist website last week they had threatened to kill their hostages within 48 hours.
A relative of the hostages had subsequently told the Arabic paper al-Sharq al-Awsat that the interim premier had not had any contacts with his kidnapped relatives for decades.
The premier himself had commented that he was “concerned” about his relatives’ fate but would not give in to the kidnappers’ demand.
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