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22 March 2009 No Comment

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Peter Moore A video of 5 Britons who have been kidnapped by Iraq kidnappers was to sent to the British Embassy in Baghdad. The video shows Peter Moore, who is one of the hostages. He said in the video that they are being treated well by the kidnappers. The video has not been released yet in media. The names of the Britons were not mentioned for their safe release.Moore says that they need help for their release. They are being hostaged since May of 2007 in Baghdad when a group of around 40 gunmen wearing police uniforms at the Iraqi Ministry in Baghdad. The kidnapping was being blamed on members of Mahdi army (a radical Shia militia). The probable cause of the kidnapping was when the British Troops killed the militia’s commander in Basra a week before the kidnapping. The other video was realeased in February of 2008.

Source: BBC News

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