British hostage in ‘remarkable’ spirits after release by Iraqi militants

A BRITISH computer expert kidnapped in Iraq with four bodyguards in 2007 has been released, Britain said yesterday, adding that he was in “remarkable” spirits.

Peter Moore, 36, had experienced an “unspeakable two-and-a-half years of misery, fear and uncertainty”, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said, while lamenting the bodyguards’ deaths.

“Peter was set free by his captors this morning in Baghdad and delivered to the Iraqi authorities. He is now in the care of the British embassy in Baghdad,” he said. “He’s in a remarkable frame of mind given the two-and-a-half years that he has had,” Miliband added.