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| British hostage endured mock executions in Iraq |
| 2010-03-13 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] British computer expert Peter Moore, held captive in Iraq for 2-1/2 years until his release in December, has said he was tortured and subjected to mock executions by a well-trained kidnap gang. In an interview with the Times newspaper, Moore said his kidnappers had links with the Iraqi government and denied U.S. intelligence assessments that he had been held for part of the time in Iran. He said he and his four British guards were seized from an Iraqi Finance Ministry building in Baghdad in May 2007 by dozens of men in the uniforms of Iraqi security forces. "They were Iraqi resistance. They have representation in the government," he said. Moore denied the gang was acting on the orders of Iran's Revolutionary Guard. "The only Iranian link is that there is an interest in Iran, probably covert funding by Iran," he told the Times. His captors were convinced he was a military intelligence officer and questioned him for hours, he said. Three of Moore's British guards were killed by their captors, and the fourth was believed to have been killed although his body was never returned. |
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