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Iraq
Iraq group threatens to kill British hostage
2007-12-05
BAGHDAD - US forces said on Tuesday they had killed or captured 40 senior Al Qaeda members in Iraq, but militants threatened to kill a British hostage in 10 days as a ‘first warning’ unless Britain withdraws from the country. The appearance of a British hostage in a video, dated Nov. 18, on Arabic-language Al Arabiya channel underscored the danger still posed by militants.

A large number of gunmen seized five British hostages—a computer instructor and his four bodyguards—from inside a Finance Ministry building in Baghdad in May.

The video set a deadline of 10 days from the date it was broadcast for Britain to pull its troops from Iraq. British troops are deployed in the mainly-Shia south. ‘My name is Jason. Today is November 18. I have been here now 173 days and I feel we’ve been forgotten,’ said one of the hostages on the video as he sat in front of a banner of the Shia Islamic Resistance in Iraq.

The video showed a statement in which the group threatened that ‘this hostage will be killed as a first warning, which would be followed with details that you would not wish to know’.

Britain condemned the video. ‘No matter what the cause, hostage taking can never be justified. We again call on those holding the men to release them unconditionally,’ a Foreign Office spokesman said in London.
Posted by:Steve White

#3  For every hostage taken the Brits should close down 10 mosques and deport anyone who goes there. Simple math.

Right, like the dhimmis would ever do that. Pity.
Posted by: Icerigger   2007-12-05 07:47  

#2  i wonder if this will make britain give in or put the spine back into their back and rejoin the fight since they are kidnapping their civilians?
Posted by: sinse   2007-12-05 06:12  

#1  Hey, Gordon Brown, any comments?
Posted by: gorb   2007-12-05 03:33  

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