LONDON - Britain confirmed on Tuesday that five British nationals had been kidnapped in the Iraqi capital. Gunmen in police uniforms earlier abducted a group of Westerners from a government building in Baghdad.‘I can confirm that a group of five British nationals were abducted this morning at 0850 UK time, which is 1150 local time, in an incident at the Finance Ministry in central Baghdad,’ a Foreign Office spokesman told Reuters. ‘Officials from the British embassy in Baghdad are in urgent contact with the Iraqi authorities to establish the facts and to try to secure a swift resolution.’
| If their names are Trevor, Ian, Nigel, Alistair and Bruce, this is very serious. If their names are Mahmoud, Mahmoud, Mahmoud, Mahmoud and Achmed, then I smell the fine odor of fish and chips wrapped in last month's Guardian. |