  By RODRIQUE NGOWI, Associated Press Writer NAIROBI, Kenya - The Kenyan government on Thursday called on all its citizens to leave Iraq (news - web sites) immediately, and a government spokesman urged Iraqi militants to free three Kenyan hostages. A group calling itself "The Holders of the Black Banners," announced Wednesday it had abducted the Kenyans, three Indians and an Egyptian.
The group said it would behead a captive every 72 hours beginning Saturday night if their countries do not announce their intentions to withdraw troops and citizens from Iraq. "We assure them that Kenya has no intent of interfering with the lives of the Iraqi people and that we are discouraging our citizens from participating in work that takes them to Iraq," government spokesman Alfred Mutua said. Neither India, Kenya nor Egypt is part of the 160,000-member U.S.-led military coalition in Iraq.
However, interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi appealed last week to India and Egypt to send in troops. More than 60 foreigners have been taken hostage in recent months in Iraq, where thousands of foreigners toil as contract workers for coalition forces, in crucial reconstruction jobs or as truck drivers hauling cargo for private companies. -- Here we go again. Can you feel the laughing from the terrorists? I can and it is making me sick. Andrew B. 
