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British Hostage Appears on Arab Television

Posted Feb 27, 08 10:27 AM CST in World 

(Newser) – One of the five British men kidnapped in Baghdad eight months ago appeared on Arab television last night, begging Prime Minister Gordon Brown to free nine Iraqi prisoners in exchange for the Britons. “Release their people so that we can go home. It’s as simple as that," Peter Moore said in remarks dubbed into Arabic. It was the first sign of the hostages since December, writes the Times of London.

Moore, a computer specialist working at Iraq's ministry of finance, was seized along with four bodyguards by a gang of about 40 gunmen of the so-called Shia Islamic Resistance in Iraq. Experts said Moore was forced to make the statement, although he appeared well-fed and in good health. Both the British and Iraqi governments condemned the "parading" of the hostage on television.

Sources Times (UK), Press Association

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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, left, walks with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, right, in the heavily-fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq Tuesday Oct. 2, 2007. Brown and al-Maliki spoke...   (Associated Press)
This is an image taken from an Arab satellite news network broadcast on Tuesday Feb. 26, 2008 purportedly showing a Briton taken hostage nearly a year earlier, presenting the kidnappers' demands for...   (Associated Press)
Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown speaks at a conference in London, Friday, Feb. 8, 2008. Brown spoke to his Iraqi counterpart Nouri al-Maliki after al-Arabiya Television aired a video of a British...   (Associated Press)
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