Sunday, June 21, 2009

Identified the bodies of two killed in Iraq of British hostage.

Forensic experts identified the remains of two people whose bodies were handed over on 19 June British Embassy in Baghdad. As reported by Sky News, examination confirmed that the remains belong to two of the five British hostages seized in Iraq two years ago.
The five Britons - IT-specialist Peter Moore and four of his guards - were kidnapped in Baghdad on May 29, 2007, with militia attacks on Iraq's Ministry of Finance. After the abduction of militants distributed a few videos. At one of them, Moore asked the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to release nine Iraqis in exchange for the release of the hostages. In another recording, the security guard told Moore that the gunmen threatened to kill all the abductees, if Britain withdraws its troops from Iraq.
In July last year, the newspaper The Sunday Times received a video of fighters, which they reported that one of the hostages committed suicide.
The names of the hostages, whose bodies have been identified, has not yet been named. Reportedly, only that we are not talking about the remains of Peter Moore. His fate, like the fate of two others remained unaccounted for.

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