Baghdad: The body of the fifth Briton
kidnapped in Baghdad in 2007 is expected to be handed over in
the coming days, Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh
told a news agency on Sunday.
"We expect them to deliver the body within the next
few days in order to close the file," Dabbagh said, referring
to 34-year-old Alan McMenemy, the bodyguard of another Briton
who was released last week.
The British embassy was not immediately available for
comment.
Peter Moore, a computer expert, was released unharmed
on Wednesday by the League of the Righteous group after two
and a half years in captivity during which time all four of
his bodyguards, also Britons, were killed.
The bodies of three -- Alec MacLachlan, 30, Jason
Swindlehurst, 38, and Jason Creswell, 39 -- were handed over
to British officials last year.
The five were kidnapped from the finance ministry in
Baghdad in May 2007, by some 40 gunmen from the League of the
Righteous, a breakaway Shiite militia.
PTI
First Published: Sunday, January 03, 2010, 20:03