• UK Hostages In Iraq ‘Likely To Be Dead’


    Security guards Alan McMenemy, from Glasgow, and Alec Maclachlan, from south Wales, were kidnapped in 2007 along with three other Britons.The bodies of two of the other men were found last month with gunshot wounds.
    The condition of the fifth man, Peter Moore, is not known, but the Foreign Office says all efforts are being made to secure his release.
    Mr Moore had been working for American management consultancy Bearingpoint in Iraq, while the other men were security contractors employed to guard him.
    The group were captured at Baghdad’s Ministry of Finance in May 2007 by about 40 men disguised as Iraqi policemen.
    They are understood to belong to an obscure militia known as Islamic Shiite Resistance in Iraq.
    BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner said the Foreign Office last week told the families of Mr McMenemy and Mr Maclachlan that the men had most likely died while in captivity.
    British officials are now focusing on IT consultant Mr Moore. The last proof of life sent by his kidnappers was a video handed over in March, but it is not known when the film was made or if he is still alive today.Jason Creswell (left) and Jason SwindlehurstThe bodies of Jason Creswell and Jason Swindlehurst were found in June
    The bodies of Mr Swindlehurst, from Skelmersdale, Lancashire, and Mr Creswell, from Glasgow, were flown back to the UK last month.
    News of their deaths came shortly after speculation that a deal to free all five men alive could be close.
    Security experts understood there had been positive diplomatic moves behind the scenes, including the release of a prisoner whose freedom was being demanded by the hostage-takers
    Little is known about the captives because of a media blackout during a large period of their captivity.
    The blackout originally came came on the instruction of the hostage-takers who said they did not want publicity.
    This has been Britain’s longest running hostage crisis for nearly 20 years.

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