Taliban says Red Cross workers to be freed soon

0 Comments | AFP, September, 2007

GHAZNI, Afghanistan (AFP) — Afghanistan's insurgent Taliban movement said four Red Cross workers, including two foreigners, would be freed Saturday after they were "mistakenly" kidnapped four days ago.

Taliban spokesmen initially denied the movement was involved in the abductions but one of them, Zabihullah Mujahed, said he had found out Saturday they "were mistakenly kidnapped by our men."

"They will be freed unconditionally after half an hour," Mujahed said at about 1050 GMT.

The men -- one from Myanmar, one from Macedonia and two Afghans -- were seized on Wednesday in the province of Wardak, about 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Kabul.

They had been on a mission to try to secure the release of a 62-year-old German engineer and five Afghans who were...