Insurgents in Iraq take 12 Nepali hostages Islamic insurgents in Iraq said Friday that they had kidnapped 12 Nepalis hostages on Thursday, a news agency said. The news was posted on a Islamic website Friday, according to the AFP. The Islamic insurgents have accused Nepalis for helping ýUnited States crusader forces to fight Islamý, the AFP said, citing the Islamic website. The news however, has not yet been independently verified. ýA group of heroic mujahedeen (Islamic fighters) managed on the night of August 19-20 to take 12 people affiliated with a Nepali company captive,ý said the statement signed by the military command of the Army of Ansar al-Sunna, according to the AFP. The statement did not say where the 12 were abducted but the group promised to publish their pictures shortly ýso that they will serve as a lesson to othersý, it is reported. Meanwhile, government officials in the Nepali capital, Kathmandu, have said they don't have information about the said abduction. The US had requested Nepal government to send its troops to Iraq for peacekeeping purposes but the government has not yet accepted the request. From NepalNews.com