The British hostage Peter Moore was dramatically set free yesterday after the United States handed over an Iraqi insurgent suspected of planning the deaths of five American servicemen. Mr Moore, an IT consultant, was freed by the League of the Righteous, or Asaib al-Haq (AAH) – an extremist Shia group allied to Iran – after 31 months and spent his first night of freedom at the British embassy in Baghdad. He is expected to fly home today. David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, said that officials had worked tirelessly to secure his release but strongly denied that the British Government had given ground to his captors. He said: “There were no concessions in this case. There was no – quote,…
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Briton Peter Moore freed in Iraq after 946day hostage ordeal
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