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Article: Did British bomb attacks in Iran provoke hostage crisis?
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 1, 2009
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Abduction of computer expert and bodyguards in Iraq were an act
of revenge by Tehran, source reveals
The abduction of the British computer expert Peter Moore and his
four bodyguards was carried out partly in revenge for deadly bomb
attacks in south-west Iran which Iranian officials blamed on
Britain, according to a well-placed source in Baghdad.
The five men were abducted by an Iranian-backed group in 2007 and
it is now believed four of them have been killed. The fate of Mr
Moore remains unclear. The Iranians orchestrated the abduction
through an Iraqi proxy, the Asaib al-Haq, which they largely
controlled, the source said.
Their main motive was to obtain prisoners to be used as a ...