Britons kidnapped to stop diversion of huge funds to Iran being exposed, sources claimMona Mahmood, Maggie O'Kane, Guy Grandjean
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 30 December 2009 21.30 GMT
Abu Kuther sits in the candlelight, casually flicking his left wrist and sending a long string of prayer beads arching into the air. "There is a famous Arabic saying," he says. "There are many ways to die but death is always the same."
Kuther, interviewed in a secret location in Baghdad for the Guardian, said he was one of the kidnappers of five Britons taken from a government ministry building in the Baghdad in May 2007.
He has told the Guardian that he was a member of militia group called the "Righteous League" – what he doesn't admit is that the league is a front for the Iranian Quds force created, trained and funded by Iran, and that the kidnapping of the five Britons was led by al-Quds force commandos.
The kidnapper spoke to the Guardian after being identified by a senior leader for the Righteous League and a member of the family of the man later exchanged as part of the deal which saw Peter Moore's freedom.
A year-long investigation by the Guardian can reveal that Iran's Islamic regime – and specifically the al-Quds force – was heavily involved in the kidnapping of the five men.
Read more:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/31/british-hostages-baghdad-iraq-iran---- --- ----
Revealed: evidence of Iran's involvement in the kidnapping of the five Britons in BaghdadFollowing a year-long investigation, GuardianFilms has exclusively uncovered the story of what happened to the five Britons kidnapped in Iraq on 29 May 2007, as the only survivor, Peter Moore, is released
Eye opening 32 minute documentary:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2009/dec/30/iraq-hostage-peter-moore-release---- --- ----
As I pointed out in
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4203783&mesg_id=4204090">the other thread about his release: