An Arabic television station has aired a video that it said showed one of five Britons held in Iraq by a Shi'ite group for about eight months. "My name is Peter ... I have been held here for nearly eight months now," a man said on the video aired by Al Arabiya television. "I miss my family very much ... I just want to get out of here."
Arabiya said he called on British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to free nine Iraqis to gain the release of the five. "It's a simple exchange," he said.
The man reportedly looked tired but was not under obvious stress. His family, as well as the families of all the other hostages, have been informed.