Hopes Rise for Safety of Last Iraq Hostage

The ScotsmanJuly 30, 2009

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Surviving British kidnap victim is alive and could be freed next week, say senior Shiite sources

DESPERATE efforts are under way to try to secure the release of the remaining British hostage in Iraq, after families were told the devastating news that two more of the five kidnap victims are believed to be dead.

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Hopes Rise for Safety of Last Iraq Hostage

Scot Alan McMenemy is one of two security guards now said to have been killed by Shiite militants who seized the men from the Iraqi finance ministry in Baghdad in May 2007.

Last month, the bodies of fellow hostages Jason Creswell, from Glasgow, and Jason Swindlehurst, from Lancashire, were handed over to the British Embassy in Baghdad.

Yesterday, Iraqi officials confirmed the...

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