"I have been held here for eight months, and I miss my family so much," said the man, who appeared on the Arabic-language Al Arabiya satellite channel. "What I want is to get out of here."
A previously unknown Shiite Muslim group calling itself the Shiite Islamic Resistance in Iraq claims to hold the five men. It was the second time the group released a video showing any of them. In December, it released a video of a man who called himself Jason.
The five were abducted May 29 from an Iraqi Finance Ministry compound in Baghdad. Four were working for the Canada-based security firm Garda World. The fifth is a computer expert working with the McLean, Va.-based management consulting firm BearingPoint.
In northern Iraq, a bomber blew himself up in a bus near the city of Mosul.
Iraqi security officials said 14 people were killed, but the U.S. military put the death toll at eight, not including the bomber. There was no way to account for the discrepancy.
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tina.susman@latimes.com
Special correspondent Ahmed reported from Irbil and Times staff writer Susman from Baghdad. Special correspondents in Baqubah and Kirkuk contributed to this report.
