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[Breaking News] BBC: 2 of 3 UK hostages in Iraq likely deadLONDON ”” The families of five British hostages captured in a bold raid in Baghdad in 2007 agonized Wednesday over a report that two of those detained have died in captivity, begging the kidnappers to free the men. The fresh appeal came after Britain's Foreign Office officials told relatives of Alan McMenemy and Alec MacLachlan that the two security guards were "very likely" to be dead, the BBC reported.

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[philstar.com - Breaking News] BBC: 2 of 3 UK hostages in Iraq likely dead | Home >> Other ...: The fate of the hostages has been murky ever since Shiite militants disguised as Iraqi policemen abducted the Britons outside the Finance Ministry in Baghdad in a bold raid in May 2007. Since then, the men have only been seen in videotapes made by their captors. 

[Breaking News] BBC: 2 of 3 UK hostages held in Iraq are “very likely” to have ...: Bodies of 2 British hostages identifiedLONDON ”” Two bodies handed over to British authorities in Iraq have been identified as bodyguards kidnapped in Baghdad two years ago, the government said Sunday. The Foreign Office said the two bodies were "highly likely" those of Jason Creswell, from Glasgow, Scotland, and Jason Swindlehurst, from Skelmersdale in northwest England.

[The Common Ills] Righteous League will continue to attack the US, Nouri embraces ...: And the US should immediately withdraw from Iraq because you do not stay on the ground in a country, protecting their 'government,' when that government is legitimizing a group that publicly states it has attacked you (and claims responsibility/credit for the deaths of the 5 US soldiers) and publicly states it will continue to attack you.

[Rocket News] UK hostages 'likely to be dead' | Stock Market News - Business ...: Two more of the British hostages held in Iraq are now thought "very likely" to be dead, the BBC has learned.Security guards Alan McMenemy, from Glasgow, and Alec Maclachlan, from south Wales, were kidnapped in 2007 along with three other Britons. They are understood to belong to an obscure militia known as Islamic Shiite Resistance in Iraq.

[NO QUARTER] Iraq Says Yes to Iran : NO QUARTER: The memo offers a look at tensions that emerged between Iraqi and American military officers at a sensitive moment when American combat troops met a June 30 deadline to withdraw from Iraq’s cities, the first step toward an advisory role. The Iraqi government’s forceful moves to assert authority have concerned some American officers, though senior American officials insisted that cooperation had improved.

[NIGERIAN BEST FORUM BLOG] NIGERIA BLOG, FREE INTERNET, MARKETING, WEB HOSTING, DESIGN ...: Two more of the British hostages held in Iraq are now thought “very likely” to be dead, the BBC has learned. Security guards Alan McMenemy, from Glasgow, and Alec Maclachlan, from south Wales .

[Military News Feed] MoD News - 2 Hostages In Iraq 'Very Likely' Dead: The families of the men - identified as Alan McMenemy from Scotland and Alec MacLachlan from South Wales, were apparently told .The kidnappers, calling themselves the Islamic Shiite Resistance in Iraq, have issued several videos featuring the captives and making demands.

[SWJ Blog] 30 July SWJ Roundup (SWJ Blog): Metz concludes that the United States has a long-standing, continuing problem “developing sound assumptions when the opponent operates within a different psychological and cultural framework.” He sees a pattern of misjudgments about Saddam and Iraq based on Western cultural and historical bias and a pervasive faith in the superiority of America’s worldview and institutions. This myopia contributed to America being caught off guard by Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, then underestimating his longevity, and finally miscalculating the likelihood of a stable and democratic Iraq after he was toppled.

[Blog about NASA] Blog about NASA » Nasa Space Act Award: (AP)(CNN) Considering the image that's been sitting up on top of the righthand column here for several months now, it might be hard to have missed the fact that there's a BLDGBLOG Book coming out. However, it also might not be entirely clear what the book is about, what's in it, or even who it's for;

[SWJ Blog] 3 August SWJ Roundup (SWJ Blog): Defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi says opposition detainees put on trial have been subjected to "medieval torture". He denounced the trials, which started on Saturday, as fraudulent and said the prisoners had been forced to confess.

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