Pakistani man, freed from captors witnessed two beheadings

Amjad Hafeez was working for KBR. He says that his captors beheaded two white English-speaking people in his presence (on or about June 27), and told him he would suffer the same fate. Hafeez was working as a truck driver, as were the Turks, the Filipino and two Bulgarians who have been captured and faced execution. Where are all those private security forces?

Hafeez said initially his captors thought he was an American CIA agent, but when they knew that he was a Pakistani driver and a Muslim, they freed him.

Hafeez said the insurgents also told him that they released him because his mother had made tearful pleas through the media to save his life.

  Fox News article

I dont' think that's working for the infidel mothers.

After his capture, insurgents released a video threatening to decapitate him unless all Iraqi prisoners were freed. In the video, Hafeez was shown urging Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to close the Pakistani Embassy in Iraq and ban all Pakistanis from going to the country.

Musharraf, who has made Pakistan a key ally of the United States in its war on terror, refused to accept the demand, but urged the kidnappers not to harm Hafeez.

Hafeez said after his release he received a call from President Bush, who congratulated him.

I don't suppose he'll be congratulating that Filipino fellow if he's released after the Philippines pulls their troops.