How do you think this man will be treated, after the abuses U.S. soldiers inflicted on Iraqi detainees in their control?

Dubai-based Al Arabiya television aired on Thursday what it said was a videotape showing an American engineer working for the Pentagon held hostage in Iraq. The network said it had received the tape from a group calling itself The Islamic Rage Squadrons which said it had kidnapped the man on May 3. He was shown blindfolded with a checkered Arab scarf and wearing a jacket.

"My name is Aban Elias from Denver, Colorado," an Arabiya transcript quoted the man as saying. "I am a civil engineer working in Baghdad...and we are working with the Pentagon... I was kidnapped and I call upon Muslim organizations to interfere to release me."

The network said a copy of the man's U.S. passport showed he had been born in Iraq. Arabiya said the kidnappers had not made any demands. Dozens of Westerners have been kidnapped in Iraq recently. Some have been released and others killed by their captors.