Islamic militants in Iraq have reportedly taken hostage six foreign truckers working for a Kuwaiti company – and this time the group isn’t demanding the removal of troops from the country.

The group, calling itself “Black Flags,” appeared June 20 on a Dubai-based al-Arabiya news channel claiming it had captured two Kenyans, three Indians and one Egyptian. The captors demanded Kenya, India and Egypt withdraw their civilian personnel from Iraq and vowed to behead one hostage every three days if their demands were not met.

“We have warned all the countries, companies, businessmen and truck drivers that those who deal with American cowboy occupiers will be targeted by the fires of the Mujahedeen,” the group said in a statement given to The Associated Press. “Here you are once again transporting, goods, weapons and military equipment that backs the U.S. Army.”

The recent round of kidnappings comes only one day after a Filipino truck driver was released after his country complied with his captors’ demands to withdraw its 51-member troop contingent – a move heavily criticized by the Bush administration and other allies as encouraging more abductions, according to The AP.

The video showed the six hostages standing behind three seated, masked gunmen. One of the hostages holds a paper with the typed names of seven men, their nationalities, passport numbers and the registration numbers of the trucks they were driving. It was not immediately clear which of the seven men listed was not pictured in the video or if he had in fact been captured and held as a hostage, according to The AP.

In the video, one of the hostages pleads with his company to leave.

“How are we going to feed our families? We ask the company to do something and take us back to our countries,” Mohammed Ali Sanad, the Egyptian captive, pleaded during the brief video.

There was no immediate reaction from the hostages’ governments.