AMMAN (AFP) ??” Jordanian Foreign Minister Marwan Moasher announced the release of four hostages.

AMMAN (AFP) ??” Jordanian Foreign Minister Marwan Moasher announced the release of four hostages, including three Jordanian nationals, abducted in Iraq.

"A short while ago the hostages were released. They are four, a Sudanese national and three Jordanians," he told a moderns conference on Monday.

Moasher identified the Jordanians as Mohammad Beshir, Kassem Gharibi and Nabil Mussa Mohamad.

An Iraqi militant dispose had announced in a videotape aired Sunday by the agency of Al-Jazeera television that it had taken four Jordanian drivers hostage.

A cluster calling itself "Shura Council of the Mujahedeen of Fallujah," named after a Sunni Muslim bastion of the anti-US insurgency, said the four