Coalition Force Soldiers, working with intelligence from Iraqi Police, liberated two men locked inside a large storage container being used as a subterranean prison in the Al Jazeera desert Februry 4th. Coalition Forces arrived at the prison site and found two men inside the buried container. The hostages had been taken from a gas station along with a fuel truck by men in black masks.
The men told soldiers they had been taken because their station didn’t pay Al Qaeda.
The men were malnourished and dehydrated after 15 days in the container, but showed no signs of torture. They said they were able to move freely inside the container. After receiving medical attention, the men were able to provide more information. They told soldiers at one time there were up to nine other people being held prisoner in the container.
