British hostages' families 'clinging to hope'The families of five Britons taken hostage in Iraq were "clinging on to hope" as they awaited results from post-mortems on two bodies handed over in Baghdad. The five -- IT consultant Peter Moore Peter Moore may refer to:
caught in the intrigues of Scottish factions, David Balfour and Alan Breck are shipwrecked, escape from the king’s soldiers, and undergo great dangers. [Br. Lit.: R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped] See : Adventurousness from the Iraqi finance ministry in Baghdad on May 29, 2007. The bodies have yet to be identified, though British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Foreign Secretary David Miliband said their thoughts were with the men's families. Moore's father Graeme said the Foreign Office had "not bothered" to keep him informed after the bodies were handed over to British authorities in Baghdad. "At this stage we are just clinging on to any hope we can. The government have not been good enough throughout," Britain's domestic Press Association news agency quoted him as saying. "I was visited by a police officer who could only read a statement. What we want and deserve is some clarification as to what's going on What's Going On is a record by American soul singer Marvin Gaye. Released on May 21, 1971 (see 1971 in music), What's Going On reflected the beginning of a new trend in soul music. . We are beside ourselves." Peter Moore's guards were employed by a Canadian security firm called GardaWorld. Little information has been released about them, but it is believed they are called Alan, Jason, Alec and Jason. The mother of Alec, whose identity is being withheld for security reasons, said: "We are anxious about the situation. "We have heard nothing new from the Foreign Office, but we are hoping for the best." Joe Gavaghan, a spokesman for GardaWorld, said the families were not giving up hope. "The announcement is very concerning. We are certainly not giving up hope that Peter and our four security people are still alive," the BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. quoted him as saying. Brown was "saddened and dismayed" by the handover n. 1. The act of relinquishing property or authority etc. to another; as, the handover of occupied territory to the original posssessors; the handover of power from the military back to the civilian authorities s>. , a spokesman for his Downing Street Downing Street, Westminster, London, England. On the street are the British Foreign Office and, at No. 10, the residence of the first lord of the Treasury, who is usually (although not necessarily) the prime minister of Great Britain. office said, while Miliband called it a "very distressing development". The hostages' families "will fear the worst for their loved ones loved ones npl → seres mpl queridos loved ones npl → proches mpl et amis chers loved ones love npl ... This is a terrible moment of uncertainty and fear for them," he added. In Baghdad, Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh did not elaborate on whether a deal had been struck for the hostages' bodies, weeks after an Iraqi militant whose group was suspected of kidnapping kidnapping, in law, the taking away of a person by force, threat, or deceit, with intent to cause him to be detained against his will. Kidnapping may be done for ransom or for political or other purposes. the men was freed from a US prison. Laith al-Khazaali, whose League of the Righteous claims to be holding the hostages, was released June 9 and briefly met his parents in Baghdad before fleeing. 
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