  By SAMEER N. YACOUB, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - A tribal chief in the turbulent city of Fallujah said Wednesday he led a raid that freed four Jordanian hostages, while a militant group released two Turkish workers after Turkish truck drivers agreed to halt deliveries to U.S. forces here. The Jordanian hostages were kidnapped eight days ago along a highway near Fallujah by a gang of kidnappers that never named its demands, said Ahmad Abu-Jaafar, one of the freed captives. "The kidnappers have nothing to do with the resistance," Abu-Jaafar told The Associated Press by telephone.
"The good people of Fallujah moved and save us from this. " Also Wednesday, the Arab satellite network al-Jazeera reported that an al-Qaida-linked militant group in Iraq (news - web sites) said it will free two Turkish hostages after their company promised to stop sending trucks to U.S. troops in Iraq. Hours later, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said the men had been freed. "The two Turkish hostages in Iraq have been released," Turkey's Anatolia news agency quoted Gul as saying.
"This good news has made us happy. " Turkey's truckers association said Monday it was halting deliveries to U.S. forces in Iraq in hopes of freeing the men after the release of a video that showed militants shooting and killing contractor Murat Yuce. -- Free at last...free at last...by G-d we are free at last...(I am sure they were saying that...but only in Arabic and Turkish) Andrew B. 
