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OTAGES IRAK : des craintes pour la vie des otages britanniques en Irak

From The Times July 30, 2009

Iraq hostages Alan McMenemy and Alec Maclachlan feared murdered

Deborah Haynes, Defence Correspondent, and Oliver August in Baghdad

Britain is scrambling to save the one remaining British hostage still held in Baghdad after it emerged yesterday that another two men kidnapped with him are believed to be dead.

The Government faces tough questions over its handling of the longest-running kidnap crisis since the 1980s after behind-the-scenes efforts failed to secure their safe release.

The families of the security guards Alan McMenemy, from Glasgow, and Alec MacLachlan, from South Wales, were told last week that it was “very likely” that both were dead. Two other guards, Jason Swindlehurst, 38, and Jason Creswell, 39, who were kidnapped at the same time on May 29, 2007, were shot dead. Their bodies were returned to Britain last month.

Last night Gordon Brown said : “This is the worst of news and my thoughts are with the families.”

Related Links Murder in Baghdad British hostages ’were shot dead’ Britain ’must do more’ for Iraq hostages The Prime Minister offered a glimmer of hope, however, for the relatives of Britain’s last hostage in Iraq. “I and the entire Government are committed to doing everything that we can for the release of Peter Moore, whom we still believe to be alive,” he said, again calling on the hostage-takers to release the computer consultant.

Observers have speculated that Mr Moore has been kept alive to use as a bargaining chip and also because it would be harder to justify killing a civilian than his armed guards.

But Mayssoon al-Damluji, an Iraqi MP, said : “I hope that Peter Moore is still alive. It’s not especially likely now, but if he is, that means the kidnappers want to negotiate.”

About 40 gunmen in Iraqi police uniform seized the five Britons from a Finance Ministry building. The hostages were hidden in Sadr City, a Shia slum in east Baghdad, before the trail ran cold, with sporadic videos offering the only proof that they were alive.

Last night Mr Moore’s father said that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office had mishandled the case. He said : “Had they handled it right, all five would have been released two years ago.” He told ITV’s News at Ten that direct negotiations could have resolved the problem within a month.

Appealing to his son’s captors, he said : “Just please bring Peter home. He was brought up properly by me to be a decent, caring person who wouldn’t hurt anybody. He was only there, as he saw it, helping to do the IT. He wasn’t there for anything else. I would ask : let him come home.”

Earlier Mr Moore’s stepmother, Pauline Sweeney, said : “I plead to the hostage-takers to send home the bodies of Alec and Alan so that their parents can have closure and move on. And I appeal to them to please let Peter come back alive.”

The probable death of Mr McMenemy and Mr MacLachlan will increase pressure on the Foreign Office, which, until the end of May, had insisted that it was working on the assumption that all the men were alive.

A media blackout, apparently at the request of the kidnappers, had been also urged, with the full names of the four guards kept out of the public domain to avoid further endangering them. Critics, however, point out that other kidnap victims have benefited from high-profile campaigns.

A British official said that any hostage case was kept under review : “There is a well-established process across Government asking always, Is there anything more we could be doing ? Are we doing this the right way ? What might be changing that we should be taking into account ?”

Saving the hostages was inevitably hard because of the politically charged nature of the kidnapping, which involves Britain, the US, Iraq and Iran.

That British officials were taken by surprise at the confirmation last month that Mr Swindlehurst and Mr Creswell were dead underlines just how guarded the kidnappers have been. Little is known about the group, which calls itself Asaib al-Haq - the Band of the Righteous - and is thought to have links to Iran. Tehran denies involvement in militant activity in Iraq.

The group has demanded the release of ten militants from US detention. The freeing of one of those detainees prompted the release of the first two bodies of the hostages. Much hinges on talks between elements of the kidnap group, who want to be included in Iraq’s political process, and the fate of the remaining nine detainees.

The US has promised to hand all those in its detention facilities to the Iraqi authorities by the end of 2011.

 
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