BAGHDAD, Sept. 30 (Xinhuanet) -- The pan-Arab al-Jazeera TV channel showed a videotape Thursday of 10 hostages held by Islamic militants in Iraq.

    An extremist Islamic group calling itself the Islamic Army in Iraq seized the 10 hostages, including six Iraqis, two Lebanese and two Indonesian women, the Qatar-based channel reported.

    "Two Lebanese have been kidnapped along with a group of others that included women," a senior Iraqi Interior Ministry official said, adding that "an intelligence team has begun looking into it and trying to find them."

    The same group claimed responsibility for kidnapping two French journalists last month.
The Frenchmen, Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot, disappeared on Aug. 20, along with their Syrian driver, on the way to the southern Iraqi city of Najaf.

    Over 140 foreigners have been kidnapped in Iraq by different groups, some holding them for ransom while others have set political conditions for their release. At least 26 hostages have been executed. Enditem