German hostages in orange overalls

Today two German engineers, Rene Braeunlich and Thomas Nitzschke, will be abducted outside their workplace in the industrial town of Baiji, 180km north of Baghdad. According to news reports, Al Arabiya will air a hostage video of them dressed in orange overalls, the kind associated with Muslims detained at Guantanamo Bay. Hostage takers Ansar al-Tawhid Wa-Sunna will threaten to kill the men unless Germany ends its cooperation with the Iraq government and closes its mission in Baghdad, and German firms stop their dealings there.