Group holding 10 hostages in Iraq - report

An Iraqi militant group says it has kidnapped 10 people, Al Jazeera television reported today.

An Iraqi militant group says it has kidnapped 10 people, Al Jazeera television reported today.

The Arab news network aired a video tape from the "Islamic Army in Iraq, the western leadership" that said the other hostages - two Indonesian women, six Iraqis and two Lebanese - work for an electronics firm.

The group made no demands.

The tape showed two of the hostages kneeling under a black banner carrying the group's name, with masked men holding machine-guns above their heads.

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It was not clear if the group was a division of the Islamic Army in Iraq, which is holding two French journalists hostage.

Militants have seizes scores of foreign hostages in Iraq since April. Most of them have been released, but around 30 have been killed.