Freed hostage prepares for return to UK
PREPARATIONS were today under way for the return to the UK of former hostage Peter Moore after his release yesterday from two and a half years of captivity in Iraq.
Mr Moore spent the night at the British Embassy in Baghdad, where he is receiving medical attention ahead of his return home.
The 36-year-old computer expert from Lincoln is believed to have been in solitary confinement for most of the past 31 months, since being kidnapped along with his four British bodyguards at the finance ministry in Baghdad on May 29, 2007.
Speculation was mounting that Mr Moore was freed in return for the release from US custody of a leading Shi'ite insurgent. Foreign Secretary David Miliband insists no "substantive concessions" were made by the UK.
Meanwhile, it was reported today that the US's former commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, had said he was "90 per cent certain" that the Britons were held in Iran for part of their period in captivity.
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