Article: Britons 'seized by Mahdi Army in revenge for killing' ; Bodyguard who escaped helps in hunt for captives

IRAQ'S biggest and most radical Shia group is now prime suspect for the kidnapping of five Britons in Baghdad. The Iraqi government named the Mahdi Army as the group it believes seized the five an IT expert and his four ex-army bodyguards. Iraqi foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari said the Mahdi Army was most likely to be behind the abduction from Iraq's finance ministry. Mr Zebari said: "There are suspicions that it might be the Mahdi Army because the location of the kidnapping is in their theatre of operations."

His views came as efforts to find the five were stepped up. It was revealed that one of the bodyguards' colleagues had fled the

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