All the people aboard a Saudi plane hijacked to Baghdad were freed on the weekend and the hijackers taken away by Iraqi authorities. The passengers and crew streamed off the Saudi Arabian Airlines plane, hijacked on a Jeddah-London flight, a little over three hours after they landed at Baghdad’s Saddam International Airport. The four hijackers, believed to be Saudis, were taken away in official cars. The hijackers, who had threatened to blow up the plane, did not make their demands known but indicated the Saudi people were subjugated by American hegemony, said an Iraqi official. Among the 90 passengers were 40 Britons, 15 Saudis, 15 Pakistanis, four South Africans, four Yemenis and two Kenyans. “Do not be afraid, you are in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and be reassured you are in safety,” an Iraqi official said after the passengers were freed. – AFP