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Briton freed from Iraqi captivity to go home soon
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-12-31 20:56
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 Graeme Moore, father of released hostage Peter Moore, sits next to a television showing a picture of his son, at his home in Leicester, central England, December 30, 2009. [Agencies] |
BAGHDAD: A British spokesman says a Briton who was recently released after more than two years as a hostage in Iraq is at the British Embassy in Baghdad and is preparing to go home soon.
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In a rare positive outcome for a foreign hostage held in Iraq, Moore was handed over Wednesday to the British Embassy in Baghdad. The bodyguards who were kidnapped with him are all believed to be dead.
A spokesman for the British Foreign Office in London said Moore was in good health Thursday.
The spokesman says preparations are in the works to send Moore home "quite soon." He spoke on customary condition of anonymity in keeping with the Foreign Office's practice.
