List of foreign hostages killed or held in Iraq

The two Italian women who were released after being held hostage for three weeks arrived in Rome Tuesday evening.

The plane taking Simona Pari and Simona Torretta, who were kidnapped in Baghdad on Sept. 7, arrived at the at Ciampino military airport in the Italian capital.

Since the US-led war on Iraq in March 2003, more than 100 foreigners have been abducted by insurgents. The following is a list of foreign hostages known or reportedly to have been killed or still in captivity in 2004:

April 8 -- Canadian Mohammed Rifat is kidnapped and still missing.

April 12 -- Jordanian Wael Mamduh is abducted in Basra and still missing.

April 14 -- Italian guard Fabrizio Quattrocchi is killed.

May 11 -- US civilian Nick Berg, missing since April 9, is beheaded.

Militants with links to al-Qaida claim responsibility.

June 5 -- Kuwaiti truck driver Saad Saadoun taking supplies to US troops is captured by a militant group called the Waqas Islamic Brigade and still missing.

June 10 -- Lebanese Hussein Ali Alyan is kidnapped along with two Iraqi colleagues. Their bodies are found on a road between Fallujah and Ramadi on June 12.

June 17 -- South Korean Kim Sun-il is kidnapped in Fallujah. He is beheaded on June 22. His captors are militants from Jama'at al-Tawhid and Jihad.

June 28 -- Al Jazeera shows a footage of what it claims is the killing of US soldier Keith Matthew Maupin. There is no confirmation that Maupin is the man killed.

July 13 -- A group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, with suspected links to al-Qaida kills a Bulgarian hostage Georgi Lazov. Another Bulgarian hostage Ivailo Kepov's body is found on July 22 but only identified on Aug. 11.

July 28 -- Al-Jazeera television says Raja Azad Khan and SajjadNaeem, two Pakistanis held by a group threatening to kill them, have been executed.

July 29 -- A militant group seizes Somali driver Ali Ahmed Mousa and threatens to behead him in 48 hours unless his Kuwaiti firm stops work in Iraq, Al-Jazeera reports.

Aug. 5 -- The Turkish Foreign Ministry confirms that a Turkish citizen Osman Alisan is killed in Iraq. Three days ago, web site posts a video recording indicating another Turkish citizen Murat Yuce is killed.

Aug. 10 -- An armed group says on a videotape that they have killed an Egyptian Mohammed Mutawalli.

Aug. 24 -- An Iraqi militant group said it is holding Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni and gives Italy 48 hours to announce its pullout from Iraq. The Italian hostage is executed two days later.

Aug. 28 -- A group calling itself the Islamic Army in Iraq claims it has kidnapped two French journalists Georges Malbrunot and Christian Chesnot, who went missing in Iraq on Aug. 20.

Aug. 31 -- Twelve Nepalese kidnapped on Aug. 20 by the Ansar al-Sunna Army in Iraq are killed on Aug. 31.

Sept. 5 -- The body of an Egyptian who was kidnapped in Iraq OnAug. 27 is found in the northern Iraqi city of Baiji.

Sept. 5 -- Four Jordanian drivers have been abducted in Iraq by militants who accuse them of working with US forces.

Sept. 13 -- A statement from the Islamic Secret Army (ISA) saidthey captured two Australians and two Asians. The ISA threatened to kill the hostages if Australia failed to withdraw from Iraq within 24 hours.

Sept. 14 -- Iraqi captors released a Turkish translator held hostage since July, but Turkish media reported two Turkish truck drivers have been kidnapped near Tikrit.

Sept. 16 -- The US embassy confirmed that two Americans and one Briton were kidnapped in Baghdad. On Sept. 13, an armed group says on a videotape that they have killed an American, and anotherAmerican is reportedly killed on Sept. 21.

Source: Xinhua