Militant group may ask for Ransom for Bigley

The brother of British hostage Ken Bigley said today he was looking into reports that a new Iraqi militant group had intervened to help negotiate the engineer’s release.

Mr Bigley, who has been in captivity for 17 days, is being held by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his Tawhid and Jihad group, who have already beheaded his two American co-workers.