Jordanian Hostages' Employer Quits Iraq In Bid To Spare Their Lives

AMMAN, July 27 (AFP) - The employer of two Jordanians held hostage in Iraq announced Tuesday that it had agreed to halt its operations there in a bid to spare their lives.
"We are terminating our activities in Iraq," Daoud and Partners executive director Rami al-Uweiss told AFP.
"We have taken this decision for humanitarian reasons and out of a concern to assure the safety of our staff and obtain the release of our two drivers," said Uweiss, whose company has been working under contract to the US military.
Drivers Ahmad Salameh Hussein and Fayez Saad al-Adwan were kidnapped in Iraq on Monday.